STUDY OF THE STATUS OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH OF THE ELDERLY ADULTS

Aims: spirituality as one of the important dimensions of the healthy concept, and is an effective factor on human consistency with the malady. This investigation has been done in order to determine the spiritual health status and its relationship with the demographic characteristics of the elderly adults. Materials and the methods: this investigation was done in a sampling method available on 360 individual adults of 65 years old and upper in Ilam city. Questionnaire of the spiritual healthy from Islam view point was used in order to collecting of the this tool data including four items of the belief system, thought moral system, and life style which its reliability and validity has been confirmed in previous studies. Data have been analyzed by SPSS software using correlation coefficient. Results: findings showed that spiritual health of the most of participants in above investigation, and also spiritual health has had a significant relationship with age, status of the disease addiction, status of the elderly adult life with his/her family and low education. But it had no significant correlation to gender. Concluding: according to the spiritual health role in the individuals' consistency, necessity of the more attention for elderly adults' health and its promotion is necessitate for health care providers. Keywords: spiritual health, dimensions of the spiritual health, Islam, elderly adult age