Research On Activity Of Daily Living And Its Influencing Factors Of The Elderly People Living Alone

The aging of the population is a major social problem for all mankind.In order to solve the problem of population aging,World Health Organization(WHO)has put forward the strategic goals of “healthy aging” and “active aging”.With the decline in fertility and the improvement of life expectancy,China's aging population scale is expanding,the age structure of elderly people is aging rapidly,especially the quantity of the old people who live alone and the proportion is rising.The elderly people who living alone has becoming a special group that should not be ignored in the process of population aging.Realizing “healthy aging” and “active aging” goals,we need comprehensive understand the daily life self-care ability of the old people who live alone,analyze the influencing factors of self-care ability,and then put forward corresponding countermeasures.This study based on 2014 elderly health and family research center of Peking University to organize the implementation of the elderly health influence factors of tracking(CLHLS)data,from the demographic factors,social factors and other factors on the basic condition of old people who live alone in China and has carried on the descriptive analysis.To analyze the influencing factors of activity of daily life about the elderly live alone,This study uses two element Logistic regression method.The study found that:(1)The elderly people living alone in China have certain group characteristics.Because of the difference in physical structure and lifestyle,more women live alone than men.The old people's body function declines with the age,the health disease increases,the marital status is dominated by widowed,the elder is the majority;the level of education is generally lower in elderly living alone,and the economic situation is not ideal.Elderly people living alone are not healthy and have low social participation rate and are not optimistic about their health.(2)After the people's life into old age,body function start degradation,the daily living self-care ability is severely damaged,the elderly living alone or handicapped account for over 60%.(3)In China,activity of daily life about the old people who live alone in gender,age,level of education and economic conditions exist differences,embodied in: the elderly's self-care ability is better than that of the female;In the low age group,the elderly have the strongest self-management ability,and the higher the age,the worse the ability of self-care;The higher the level of education and income,the stronger the ability of daily life.(4)The factors influencing the solitary old man self-care ability of daily life is extremely widespread,gender,presence of children,level of education and other demographic factors,social factors such as economy,social participation,physical examination,lifestyle and other factors in a certain extent affect the solitary old man's ability to care for daily life.(5)The two element Logistic regression of the daily life of the elderly living alone shows that: participating in exercise and physical examination can help to improve the daily life of the elderly living alone;The disease is the key factor that leads to the loss of self-care ability of the elderly living alone.On the basis of this,the author puts forward some suggestions on how to improve the health of the elderly living alone,and encourage the old people to pay attention to physical exercise and improve the social participation awareness of the elderly living alone.