The SWB Of Disabled Elders And Mental Care

In our country, there are many disabled elders. By the year2007, the disabled and partlydisabled elders had reached35million in China. By using self-report, questionnaire, interview, thisstudy was designed to obtain an understanding of the subjective well—being status among disabledelders and the influencing factors of SWB of disabled elders. In addition, we compare theunderstanding of “well-being” between Chinese disabled elders and Swedish disabled elders; try todo a cross-cultural comparative study, get the different mean of “well-being” in individual countryand collectivistic country.The results show that:(1) Chinese disabled elder’ SWB is significantly lower than the healthyelder; and after the elder present disability, their SWB develop as V-type; according to SWB, thedifferent types of specific disability in descending order are: talk impairment, hearing impairment,visual impairment, limbs impairment.(2) There are three influencing factors of disabled elder’SWB: self-efficacy, social support, disability degree. Which self-efficacy, social support are theintervening variable between disability and SWB.(3) Chinese disabled elder’ SWB aresignificantly different according to different demographic variables, such as: education level,marital status, source of income.(4) Compare to the Swedish disabled elder, after becomedisability the attitude towards life of Chinese disabled elder are more negative; the adaptation wayare also different between them: Swedish are initiative; Chinese are passive.(5) In order toimprove the SWB of disabled elders in China, we observed the Nursing home in Sweden andChina, then gave the suggestion as follow: Cultivate the disabled elder’s self-reliance; encouragethe disabled elder to participate in the collective activities.