Kvaliteta starenja – samoprocjena zdravlja i potrebe za uslugama skrbi
Quality of Ageing – Self-Perceived Health and Needs for Community Care Services

Summary/Abstract: For most people, subjective health, or self-perceived health, is the primary determinant of the health-related quality of life. This research examined the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics, self-perceived health, life satisfaction, functional ability, psychosomatic symptoms in older people, and their needs for community care services, and, also, the possibility to predict their needs for community care services. Methods: the subjects were 2911 older persons, 978 men and 1933 women, from all regions of Croatia. Their mean age was 73 years (range 60-103 years). Measures of self-reported health were scales of self- -perceived health, life satisfaction, functional ability, psychosomatic symptoms. The needs for and availability of community care services were measured by two scales. Subjects' age, sex, objective health status and living conditions were controlled for. Data were collected in subjects' homes, using a structured interview, by trained interviewers. Results confirmed the possibility to predict the

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