Correlations among Relocation Stress, Health Conditions, and Life Adjustment of the Elderly in Long-Term Care Institutions
Correlations among Relocation Stress, Health Conditions, and Life Adjustment of the Elderly in Long-Term Care Institutions

Summary/Abstract: The world is going through the process of population transition, where the aging of population structure has become the common social phenomenon globally. The major impact on nations and societies appears on medical resources flocking to the elderly that the demand for the elderly long-term care and support institutions is increasing. When elders move in the institutions, the change in living environment could easily have them encounter adjustment difficulty. Such adjustment problems often result in the elderly refusing to accept the life in the new environment or cause worsening health conditions and result in increasing incidence or mortality. Taking the elderly in long-term care institutions in Shanghai as the research objects, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 367 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 73%. The research results conclude that relocation stress would affect health conditions; relocation stress would affect life adjustment, and health conditions reveal remarkably positive effects on life adjustment. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to assist the elderly, through the cooperation of care teams, in positively adjusting to the life in institutions, promote the perceived satisfaction with life in institutions, and enhance the health so as to reduce social health care and human care costs and, most importantly, offer new meaning and goal for the elderly life.

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