Background · Material and methods · Results · Discussion. Economic stability means being able to access resources to pay for life's needs, such as affordable housing, healthy food and adequate health care. However, in the United States, nearly 1 in 10 older adults lives 6 in poverty. Use the Healthy People 2030 tools and resources below to support your work to increase the economic stability of older adults.
The essential element of this research was to demonstrate the connections between the subjective assessment of quality of life and functional status, as well as to reveal the factors that influence it. Therefore, it can be concluded that providing adequate support will help maintain the biological, psychological and social activity of older people and, therefore, will result in a high quality of life assessment. The analysis of the relationship between the evaluation of quality of life and the need for support revealed that the evaluation of quality of life in all settings was negatively correlated with scores of independence, risk of interruption of care and risk of falls. In this study, similarly, people with lower functioning on the AMTS and IADL scales expressed that quality of life evaluations were lower.
The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between the need for assistance of older people and the assessed quality of life. The objective of this article is to comprehensively identify the determinants of quality of life in a large population sample of people between 18 and 50 years of age and over 50 who enrolled on the occasion of the COURAGE in Europe (Collaborative Research on Aging in Europe) project. Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age that affect a wide range of outcomes and risks to health, functioning and quality of life. Therefore, researchers who study the quality of life of older people often emphasize the relationship between functional status and quality of life.
Mobility difficulties outside the home reduced the assessment of quality of life in all areas, mainly physical health. This study also showed that the same factors affected the assessment of quality of life and the demand for support, namely, mobility difficulties outside the home, discouragement and forgetfulness. Therefore, a systematic evaluation of the functioning status of older people is necessary, as well as a determination of the factors that limit independence. People with hearing problems obtained a lower quality of life score than those with normal hearing, with an average of 9.09 points in the field of the environment and 7.74 points in the domain of social relations.
