Health Status and Individual Care Needs of Disabled Elderly at Home in Different Types of Care

Qi Tang, Min Yuan, Wenhui Wu, Huanyun Wu, Cao Wang, Gang Chen, Chengyue Li () and Jun Lu ()
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Qi Tang: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Min Yuan: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Wenhui Wu: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Huanyun Wu: Shanghai Jinshan District Health Service Management Center, Shanghai Jinshan District Municipal Health Commission, Shanghai 200540, China
Cao Wang: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Gang Chen: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Chengyue Li: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Jun Lu: School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-12

Abstract: For the disabled, paying attention to their health status is the starting point to discovering their survival problems, while meeting their care needs is the end point to solving their survival problems. As the country with the largest number of disabled elderly in the world, how to ensure this group could obtain appropriate home care is a major public health issue facing China. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study from October to December 2020 to explore the basic characteristics and health status of disabled elderly in different types of care who are living at home in 37 streets in Shanghai, as well as the individual care needs and its relevance. We observed the significant differences in the number of diagnoses ( p = 0.03), smoking ( p = 0.009), drinking ( p = 0.016), exercise ( p = 0.001), activity of daily living ( p < 0.0001), and the quality of life ( p < 0.0001) across care types. The care needs of the disabled elderly are diversified, of which a vast majority of them have not been fully guaranteed. The urgent need for improving the identification accuracy of care needs of disabled elderly, as well as the development of elaborate and personalized care programs for them, is needed.

Keywords: disability; elderly population; health status; care needs; types of care; quality of life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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