Living alone, health and preventive care use among the elderly in Shanghai, China

Liu, Lijuan; Sha, Kun; Wei-min, Ren; Wang, Yue

doi:10.1016/s1000-1948(13)60036-2

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“…The empty-nest elderly in a mountainous area were less likely to call for doctor because they lack financial and social support [ 21 ]. And the empty-nest elderly in Shanghai were more likely to have lower social support and worse self-reported health than the non-empty-nest group [ 22 ]. Another study showed that the empty-nest elderly in Shanghai had less social support and higher prevalence of chronic diseases and had higher home care needs than the non-empty-nest elderly [ 23 ].…”

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Exploratory analysis of health-related quality of life among the empty-nest elderly in rural China: An empirical study in three economically developed cities in eastern China

Liang

2014

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

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BackgroundAlong with rapid economic development, the aging process in China is gradually accelerating. The living conditions of empty-nest rural elderly are worrisome. As a more vulnerable group, empty-nest elderly are facing more urgent health problems. This study explores the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of empty-nest elderly in rural China and aims to arouse more social concern for their HRQOL.MethodsResearch subjects were empty-nest rural elderly from three cities: Nanjing, Suzhou, and Wenzhou (ages ≥ 60, n = 967). This study used the five-dimensional European quality of health scale (EQ-5D) and the 12-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) to measure the HRQOL of the respondents. Spearman correlation coefficient, stereotype logistic regression, ordered probit regression and multinomial logistic regression, and Structural equation model (SEM) methods are employed to study the relationship.Results(1) The Spearman correlation coefficient shows that the correlations of similar domains between the SF-12 and the EQ-5D scales are relatively strong. (2) Men’s scores are higher than that of women’s in general health (GH) and anxiety/depression (AD) models. (3) The scores of physical component summary (PCS), physical functioning (PF), mental health (MH), and usual activities (UA) decline with age. (4) Apart from PCS, vitality (VT), and role-emotional (RE) as dependent variables, the education passes all the significance tests. The higher the education is, the higher the scores of physical or psychological health are. (5) The scores of PCS and bodily pain (BP) of empty-nest elderly are divorced or higher in other marital status. (6) In SEM analysis, the effect of basic information of empty-nest elderly on SF-12 scale is more significant.Conclusions First, the frequency histograms of EQ-5D show that the scores of empty-nest elderly in rural China are generally low. Second, in all SF-12 items, the HRQOL is low. Third, men’s scores are higher than that of women’s. The elderly with higher education reported higher scores than those with lower education. Fourth, the effect of socio-demographic variables of the rural Chinese empty-nest elderly on SF-12 scores is more significant, whereas the effect on EQ-5D scores is less significant.

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Exploratory analysis of health-related quality of life among the empty-nest elderly in rural China: An empirical study in three economically developed cities in eastern China

Liang

2014

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“…Health services should be flexible enough to provide the required services at-home. 27 At the same time, they should acknowledge the vulnerability [3][4][5][6] of those living alone.…”

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“…These studies have found that retired individuals living alone use less preventive care than those who live with a partner. 3,4 We do not know whether these issues apply to people living alone in all age groups or if they are specific to older age groups. However, we do know that poverty seems to be common among those living alone.…”

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Use of Health Services Among People Living Alone in Finland

Solin

Pasanen

Mankinen

et al. 2021

Health�Serv�Insights

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Although health issues are more common in people living alone than in those living with someone, research on the service use of people living alone has focused on older age groups. Based on large Finnish cross-sectional health survey (FinHealth 2017, n = 4686), we examined the difference in the use and assessment of health services between those living alone and those living with someone, and whether some sub-groups within those living alone use or perceive the use of health care services differently to those living with someone. The adjusted proportions, based on logistic regression models controlling for demographic variables and perceived health and mental health, showed that those living alone had seen a doctor in the past year less often (65.5%) than those not living alone (71.9%). People living alone had also less often had a health examination in the past 5 years (72.4%) than those not living alone (79.2%), and this proportion was particularly low within people living alone with high levels of depressive symptoms (59.0%) compared to lower levels (75.0%). Conclusively, among people living alone, those who suffer from depressive symptoms might be a potential group that does not receive the same levels of preventive care than others.

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Designing a Product Service Platform for Older People: From Needs to Requirements

Menghi

Papetti

Carbonari

et al. 2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Living alone, health and preventive care use among the elderly in Shanghai, China

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Exploratory analysis of health-related quality of life among the empty-nest elderly in rural China: An empirical study in three economically developed cities in eastern China

Exploratory analysis of health-related quality of life among the empty-nest elderly in rural China: An empirical study in three economically developed cities in eastern China

Use of Health Services Among People Living Alone in Finland

Designing a Product Service Platform for Older People: From Needs to Requirements

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