Recent trends show an increase in the elderly population due to the development of medical and scientific technology. Women have a longer life span than men (they live longer) ; but they live a more inferior life economically and physically than men. ...
Recent trends show an increase in the elderly population due to the development of medical and scientific technology. Women have a longer life span than men (they live longer) ; but they live a more inferior life economically and physically than men. I will study the participation in social activities and the mental health of elderly women in the farm village area by studying their social demographic and health factors.
I concluded that women's influence was dependent upon demography, health and participation in social activities. I wish to provide the basic data for improving the quality of life for single elderly women.
To accomplish this study, I surveyed single women over the age of sixty-five as they visited the public health center. I questioned the women regarding their demographic factors, health center. I questioned the women regarding their demographic factors, health, social activity support index, physical symptoms, percentages, standard deviation, t-test, analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis for each question. I used the SPSS figure program to analgize the data.
I concluded the following ;
Over 80% of the people surveyed did not drink or smoke. They took a tonic and neutrino pill for their health. Most of them do not do anything special for recreation. In answering the question, "the state of their thinking health", most of them answered "bad of average".
They said they have two to three chronic diseases. However, the people surveyed might have more health problems than the average elderly person because they were surveyed coming out of the public health clinic. 84.5 % of them depend upon their children for mental and material support, although they also depend largely on neighbors, religious group and their relatives (in that order). They participate in old people's meetings, religious groups, social gatherings, and silver school (in that order). It may be that old women spend most of their time at old people's place (I don't know if this is a specific place or if he simply means other old people's homes). In a satisfaction index of their social activities, 50.8% of them claimed they utilized old people's place most often.
Second, society demographic changeable factors. Factors involved health, social participation's influential power is up to their neighbor's number(ß=.-35, p.〈.001), religious groups (ß=.-2.7, p.〈.001), age(ß=.-2.5, p.〈.001), their scholarship(ß=.-22, p.〈.01). The less neighbors who help mentally, materially, the less they visit religious groups, the younger, the less education they home received, the higher influences to their bodies they get. And the influential index is 23.6%. In the influential power over anxiousness, insomnia, it was exposed by neighbor's number, attainments in scholarship, religious groups, and friend's number by order. The less neighbors who help mentally, physically, the lower scholarship, the less frequent to the religious groups, the less friend' number, the more anxiousness, insomnia they got. The influence index was 12.6%.
In the influential power ways, their neighbors, their friends, the attainment in scholarship were found in that order. The less neighbors who help them mentally, materially, the lower scholarship, the less friends who help them, the more depression they get. The index was 10.4%.