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Long-term Care Facility and its Elderly Chronic Diseases in Jishou: Insights into Underdeveloped Area of China.
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- An exploration of status of chronic diseases and its influencing factors of older people in Chinese home care and long-term care facilities: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Insight into the current status of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) and chronic diseases in underdeveloped areas in China is scant. Using a census method to survey older adults ≥60 years old (154 older adult residents) in all LTCFs in Jishou area. The International Resident Assessment Instrument for Long-Term Care Facilities (interRAI-LTCF) was used to collect information and analyze the current status of chronic diseases among older adult residents. There were 62 187 residents ≥60 years old in Jishou area. According to the survey, there were only 154 older adult residents living in the LTCFs of Jishou, with a ratio was 0.3% of all older adult residents, which was much lower than China's 3.0%. Of respondents (109 older adult residents), the prevalence of chronic diseases was 70.6%. The prevalence increases with age, as well as in the female is higher than in the male. The top 3 chronic diseases were hypertension (41.3%), bone and joint disease (12.8%) and cerebrovascular disease (12.8%). It was found that different age groups and genders lead to differences in the prevalence and the order of chronic diseases. The prevalence of older adults with impaired balance ability, sleep disturbance and swallowing disturbance was higher than that of normal older adults. The results of the one-way analysis of variance showed that the age and balance ability of the older adults with chronic diseases were statistically significant (
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