The Study on Community Health Education of Empty Nest Elderly

Ling Gao, Xue Cao, Min Zhang

Beihua University, Jilin, China.
Beihua University, Jilin, China Baicheng Medical College, Baicheng, China.

DOI: 10.4236/eng.2013.510B028                

Abstract

Objective:To study the demands of community health education on the empty nest elderly and analyse the related factors. Methods:The 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey(SF-36), activities of daily living (ADL) and the community health services satisfaction scale were used to investigate the community health service demand and supply of 358 empty nesters. Results:The results showed that the ability of self-care was worse and needed more nursing or caring from others in the empty nest elderly; the empty nest elderly, in comparison with the non-empty-nest elderly, had lower physical and mental scores. With the age changing, the requirements of community health services were different in empty nest elderly and the satisfaction of community health service was low in the empty nest (39.1%). Conclusions: Empty nest elderly generally needed the different degree of community health education demands. The utilization rates of community health education were low.

Keywords

Empty Nest Elderly; Community Health Education

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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