tailieunhanh - Assessment of Quality of Life among Rural and Urban Elderly Population of Wardha District, Maharashtra, India

General Practitioners are usually the first medical point of contact for elderly people, but some doctors may fail to diagnose alcohol misuse in a population where there are other urgent medical matters and some believe that it may be better for the individual to continue in their established pattern of drinking as altering it could be harmful. Elderly patients may show reluctance at disclosing their alcohol intake and relatives may wish to hide the evidence of the misuse of alcohol and deny the existence of the problem. Appropriate screening measures are necessary in order to identify alcohol or other substance misuse among the elderly - and these. | Kamla-Raj 2011 Ethno Med 5 2 89-93 2011 Assessment of Quality of Life among Rural and Urban Elderly Population of Wardha District Maharashtra India Abhay Mudey1 Shrikant Ambekar2 Ramchandra C. Goyal3 Sushil Agarekar4 and Vasant V Wagh5 Department of Community Medicine Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Sawangi M Wardha Maharashtra India 1Telephone 91-9373187088 E-mail 1 abhaymudey@ 2 shrikantpari@ 3 drgoyal_45@ 4 suhil_agrekar@ 5 drvasantwagh@ KEYWORDS Elderly. Quality of Life. Ageing. Domains of QOL. Geriatric Care ABSTRACT All aspects of health status life style satisfaction mental state or well-being together reflect the multidimensional nature of Quality of Life QOL in an individual. India has acquired the label of an aging nation with percent of its population being more than 60 years old. Changes in population structure will have several implications for health economic security family life and well being of people. The present study was carried out with two-fold objectives to assess the difference of quality of life between rural and urban elderly population and to find out the association between the socio-demographic profile and quality of life of elderly population. The community based cross sectional study was conducted on 800 elderly subjects selected from urban n 400 and rural n 400 using multistage simple random technique. Interviews were conducted using pre-tested questionnaire by trained interviewers to collect data. The WHO-QOL BREF was used to assess the quality of life. The study showed that the elders living in the urban community reported significant lower level of quality of life in the domains of physical and psychological than the rural elderly populations. The rural elderly population reported significant lower level of quality of life in the domain of social relation and environmental than urban population. The difference between the quality

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