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Quality of Ageing – Self-Perceived Health and Needs for Community Care Services

Jasminka Despot Lučanin
Damir Lučanin
Mladen Havelka


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str. 801-817

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Sažetak

For most people, subjective health, or self-perceived health,
is the primary determinant of the health-related quality of
life. This research examined the relationship between
sociodemographic characteristics, self-perceived health, life
satisfaction, functional ability, psychosomatic symptoms in
older people, and their needs for community care services,
and, also, the possibility to predict their needs for community
care services. Methods: the subjects were 2911 older
persons, 978 men and 1933 women, from all regions of
Croatia. Their mean age was 73 years (range 60-103
years). Measures of self-reported health were scales of self-
-perceived health, life satisfaction, functional ability,
psychosomatic symptoms. The needs for and availability of
community care services were measured by two scales.
Subjects' age, sex, objective health status and living
conditions were controlled for. Data were collected in
subjects' homes, using a structured interview, by trained
interviewers. Results confirmed the possibility to predict the
older people's needs for community care services based on
the relationships in the set of different self-reported health
indicators. Including self-perceived health among needs
assessment criteria in older persons might improve the
quality of life in old age.

Ključne riječi

the aged; self-perceived health; care services

Hrčak ID:

10879

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/10879

Datum izdavanja:

31.10.2006.

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