Survey of health, social and economic conditions of the elderly and their leisure time

authors:

avatar Masomeh Saberyan , * , avatar Saeed HajiAghajani , avatar Raheb Ghorbani ORCID

Koomesh: Vol.4, issue 3; 25-32
published online: August 15, 2003
article type: Research Article

how to cite: Saberyan M, HajiAghajani S, Ghorbani R. Survey of health, social and economic conditions of the elderly and their leisure time. koomesh. 2003;4(3):e151980. 

Abstract

Introduction: Developing in medical care has increased life expectancy. As a result population has been increased. Therefore programming to provides services requires the identifying the elderly real needs. Having knowledge and achieving to their real needs helps the programmers to have a plan according to their needs. This study was performed to determine the elderly health, social and economic conditions and that how they spend their leisure time. Materials & Methods: In an analytic and descriptive research, 1024 old men and women were surveyed through using questionnaire and cluster sampling. To analyze the qualitative data, data were changed into the quantitative ones, and named with ranking ″good, average, poor″. The chi-2 tests and Spirman correlation coefficient were used in the 5% meaningful level. Results: Data showined that most of the elderly (69.23%) have the average economic condition, and the social condition of most of them is average (69.02 %.). Health condition of the elderly is showing some disturbances, hypertension (80.6%) and excrement problems (76.7%). However sight problems (46.9%), hearing (29.3%) and movement (28.2%) are considerable. There also existed a meaningful relation between the economic condition and gender (P=0.0003), age and social condition (p=0.000). But in the other cases, there did not exist any significant relation. Conclusion: The elderly average economic condition showing that this class of society needs more care, financially. Results showed that social activity condition of them was at the average level, resulting from age increase and removing the life motivation. Totally, they have a lot of physical problems and should be considered by health and treatment planners.