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| Shelter homes for the elderly in Malaysia | | Author(s) | A Zaiton, S G Sazlina, V Renuka |
| Journal title | BOLD, vol 20, no 1, November 2009 |
| Publisher | International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), November 2009 |
| Pages | pp 12-18 |
| Source | http://www.inia.org.mt |
| Keywords | Institutional accommodation ; Poor elderly ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | A cross-sectional study of 1681 residents for all nine shelter homes were interviewed from March to September 2003 for this study, which for the first time describes the residents of publicly-funded shelter homes in Peninsular Malaysia. The mean age of residents was 71.8. The majority were male (58.6%), had no formal education (64.1%), were from rural areas (81.1%), had no family members (61.7%), and received no visits at all (85.5%) from either friends or relatives. 295 (27.3%) had mild to severe disability, 226 (20.9%) had poor vision and 47 (4.3%) had reduced hearing. Only 447 (41.4%) of these older people were well-nourished, 707 (78.9%) were at risk of depression and 817 (75.6%) had probable cognitive impairment. 143 (14.1%) and 88 (8.1%) self-reported to have hypertension and coronary heart disease (CHD) respectively. It is clear that these residents have multiple co-morbidities. Effective management strategies are required to ensure maintenance if not improved quality of life. (The same article appeared in BOLD, vol 18, no 3, May 2008.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100119213 A |
| Classmark | KV: F:W6: 3KB |
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