The analysis of life quality as related to health of the elderly and the senior people living in Kaunas city and district retirement home

Relevance of the Topic The analysis of life quality is valuable seeking to compare and evaluate the influence of particular health states to the aspects of public welfare both assessing out of man‘s position and according to what kind of help he needs (Coons SJ. etc., 2000). The research of life quality helps to assess it better. Writing this work I aim at the analysis of how demographic factors are related to life quality. The aim of the work To assess the life quality as related to health of the elderly and the senior people living in the nursing home. The tasks of the work: 1. To assess the life quality as related to health of the elderly and the senior people living in private nursing home based on their gender and age group; 2. To assess the life quality as related to health of the elderly and the senior people living in public nursing home based on their gender and age group; 3. To compare the life quality as related to health of the elderly and the senior people living in private and public nursing home. The method of the research Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE). The research does not include people, who in MMSE were assessed as having a serious cognition disorder. The life quality related to health is assessed using SF-36 questionnaire (a short survey form concerning health (Hirsch, Bartholomae, Volmer, 2000; Ware 2000; Lloyd, Sawyer, Hopkinson, 2001)). The Results and Conclusions The elderly and the senior people living in private nursing home evaluated the life quality concerning health this way: men – 47 points, women – 51 point, the assessment of life quality was higher for older people. The elderly and the senior people living in public nursing home evaluated the life quality concerning health this way: men – 56 points, women – 50 points, the assessment of life quality got worse for older people. The elderly and the senior people living in private and public nursing home evaluates their life quality as related to health fair-to-middling. The evaluation of a living nursing home resident elderly and the senior people with health-related quality of life worse in men than 2,25 points al in women (GS-1,08; 95 proc. PI 1,04-1,10; p 0.05), the best quality of life is assessed at the age 70-79 53,2 points (p 0,05). Private nursing home quality of life for ages aspect evaluated 49±3,8 points, and state nursing home 50.5 ± 1.4 points. In private homes for the elderly quality of life for the men 49,7 points, and women 53,6 points State nursing home men and women appreciate the 51,3 points. It is a moderate correlation between the state nursing home quality of life and mental (r–0,67) and physical health (r–0,54), and in private homes for the elderly between quality of life and mental health (r–0,58) (p <0,05). A one-dimensional logistic regression showed that the type of institution in which the residence is not as strong a factor that would lead to quality of life, except for role limitations due to physical ailments scale (GS-1,03; 95 percent CI 1,08 to 1,12; p