Disposition of improving quality of life in older adults: the case of Lithuania.
Aging Clin Exp Res
; 36(1): 26, 2024 Feb 07.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Quality of life is a phenomenon that recently required lots of concern, especially for older adults, since healthy aging and longevity have become the focus in life. Most research on the quality of life addresses certain issues of older people having special diseases, health problems, and disorders. Our research is based on holistic quality of life empowering multiple areas of life/domains of older adults without addressing their diseases or health disorders.AIM:
Our research aims at evaluating the quality of life of the research participants (older people), addressing their problematic areas and suggestions for better quality of life.METHODS:
The conducted research implied mixed methods as quantitative survey and reflection based on interviews. We chose participants from the III age university and the ongoing project "Healthy Aging Program".RESULTS:
The research results showed the lowest ratings for emotional and physical health and the highest rating for social health. Also, older adults tend to avoid specifying precise measures to improve their quality of life and demonstrate a more conservative stance regarding the implementation of more radical changes in improving water consumption, exercising, meal planning, and enhancing psychosocial well-being.CONCLUSIONS:
The overall quality of life rating was lower than the average. Older adults are not sufficiently prepared or educated to make significant changes to develop healthier habits in their quality-of-life improvement, though, they demonstrate concern about their quality of life.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Calidad de Vida
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Longevidad
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Límite:
Aged
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Aging Clin Exp Res
Asunto de la revista:
GERIATRIA
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Lituania
Pais de publicación:
Alemania