Original scientific paper
ACTIVITIES OF SELF-CARING OF ELDERLY PERSONS
M. MAJKIĆ
; Skola za medicinske sestre i tehničare Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu Kabinet za kliničku kineziologiju
Abstract
Quality of life of eldcrly persons is greathy handicapped by their motorial
dependence, or a need for being supported by others. The increasing population
of the elderly who depend on others' help make funds of the social care empty.
Therefore, the concern for reeducation or maintaining motorial capabilities of
the elderly persons is not fully emphasized in our society.
The educational proces of self-caring consists of special kinesitherapeutical
treatment composed of specific activities that just raise them on a higher level.
This preliminary study was aimed to check up motorial capabilities of self-
caring in a heterogenous group of 100 subjects in pensioners' homes. The results
showed significantly decreased capabilities of self-caring to such an extent that
only 12°/o of subjects might be considered entirely independent. 570/o of subjects
merely partially completed their motorial exercises, while the remainder of 3l•lfo
was on the limit of their motorial independency. When using complexes of motorial
exercises which were measured in seconds and freiiuency of movements, they
displayed a high degree of variability regardless of particular personality traits.
Consequently the educational procedures of self-caring of elderly persons should
be carried out separately and dosed individually according to the objective state
of each old person, as well as according to conditions of movements in the house
or in other living space.
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Hrčak ID:
143223
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Publication date:
18.8.1989.
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