Estimation of Lifestyle Diseases in Elderly from a Rural Community of Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh

Nallapu, Samson Sanjeeva Rao

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2014/8050.4239

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“…Furthermore, illiterate women, being housewives and widowhood considers factors that can increase the burden of lifestyle disease, a cross-sectional study among 9,067 older adults in India aimed to identify the burden of lifestyle-related disease among older adults. The results of this study revealed that women are more likely to increase the burden of diseases that contribute to lifestyle than men (Nallapu and Sai, 2014). Also, a study by Chen et al (2018), among community-dwelling elders in Taiwan revealed that older adult females are better at choosing a healthy diet than males.…”

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Health promoting behaviors and associated factors among older adults: a narrative review

Rababa

Al-Ali

Shaman

2022

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Purpose This study aims to examine the recent literature on health-promoting behavior, health needs and associated factors among older adults. Design/methodology/approach An massive search of five databases involving documents in the past decade was commenced. Findings This review showed a significant relationship between older adults’ demographic characteristics (marital status, income, chronic disease, education level and smoking status) and health-promoting behaviors. This review showed that older adults with a high level of education, high income, chronic diseases and smoker and married older adults are associated with better health-promoting behaviors. Originality/value The result of the current review supports the Pender Health Promotion Model that individual personal characteristics can affect the level of engagement in health-promoting behaviors. Assessing the health-promoting behaviors of older adults can help in identifying their health needs.

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Health promoting behaviors and associated factors among older adults: a narrative review

Rababa

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Shaman

2022

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“…These may be compounded by physical incapacity due to an exhaustive list of disabilities because of multiple medical problems of varying severity. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The cumulative effect of these may be much greater than any individual disease. The elderly who are living alone are likely to suffer more from both acute and chronic illnesses.…”

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“…All these lead to social isolation, a feeling of loneliness and hopelessness. These may be compounded by physical incapacity due to an exhaustive list of disabilities because of multiple medical problems of varying severity . The cumulative effect of these may be much greater than any individual disease.…”

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Assessment of functional status and daily life problems faced by elderly in a North Indian city

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Background The increase in proportion of elderly implies that their problems demand more attention of the administrators. The current study was carried out to assess the functional status of the elderly and to explore the extent and pattern of routine daily life problems faced by them. Methods An integrated qualitative and quantitative research design was employed. A stratified multistage random sampling technique was used to select the respondents from various areas of Chandigarh. The houses were selected randomly from where elderly persons (> 60 years) were identified. Katz Index of Independence in activities of daily living (ADL) was used to evaluate functional ability of the respondents. Instrumental ADLs (IADLs) were assessed using Lawton and Brody scale. Focus group discussions and in‐depth interviews were conducted among the elderly to explore their problems using an interview guide. Results One thousand and eighty elderly were enrolled in the study. Their mean age was 67.22 ± 7.54 years. (range 60–102 years). The majority (70%) were independent in carrying out their daily life activities. Financially, around one‐third were completely dependent and around half were partially dependent. Major dependence was in food preparation, housekeeping and laundry. From the qualitative data, four main themes were formulated, that is general personal problems of elderly; family problems; problems faced by elderly in hospitals and at public places. A feeling of purposelessness, financial insecurity, physical dependency, problems in hospitals and so on, emerged as the main problems. Conclusions Majority of the elderly considered their lives as problematic because they were dependent physically as well as financially. The main domains of dependency were problems related to bowel continence, food preparation, housekeeping and laundry.

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“…Generally, people in villages tend to age faster as they have little knowledge of a healthy diet and physical therapy [15,16].…”

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To Treat or Not to Treat

Chatterjee

2019

Health and Wellbeing in Late Life

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In this famous poem, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore welcomes death as a natural closure to life. But how many of us possess this clarity of considering death as a natural course of life itself, particularly when we are approaching our latter half of life. In this chapter, I would like to discuss the moment that often comes during every doctor's practice and is always a difficult choice. On a busy afternoon of 16 April 2016, I received a forwarded email from our head of the department Dr. A. B Dey, who was in Toronto for an official trip: Dear Doctors, I have been informed by the Prime Minister Office that the Department of Geriatric Medicine at A.I.I.M.S is best equipped (with dedicated beds for 80 plus patients) to look into my concern regarding the below-mentioned case: O thou the last fulfillment of life, Death, my death, come and whisper to me! Day after day I have kept watch for thee; for thee have I borne the joys and pangs of life. All that I am, that I have, that I hope, and all my love has ever flowed towards thee in depth of secrecy. One final glance from thine eyes and my life will be ever thine own. The flowers have been woven and the garland is ready for the bridegroom. After the wedding, the bride shall leave her home and meet her lord alone in the solitude of night [1]. Noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore

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Estimation of Lifestyle Diseases in Elderly from a Rural Community of Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Health promoting behaviors and associated factors among older adults: a narrative review

Health promoting behaviors and associated factors among older adults: a narrative review

Assessment of functional status and daily life problems faced by elderly in a North Indian city

To Treat or Not to Treat

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