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- Successful Aging and the Influencing Factors in the Korean Elderly: Focused on Family Support
- SongYi Han, Soon-Nyung Yun
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Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2015;26(4):372-379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2015.26.4.372
Published online: December 31, 2015
College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
• Received: August 28, 2015 • Revised: December 9, 2015 • Accepted: December 17, 2015
© 2015 Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing
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Abstract
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Purpose
- This research was conducted to examine the successful aging and identify factors influencing successful aging in the Korean elderly.
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Methods
- The subjects were 4,507 elders and data were collected from the 4th Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing in 2012. The data were analyzed using frequencies, weighted percentage, χ2 test, and logistic regression.
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Results
- The results of this study showed that 19.6% of the participants were categorized to successful aging. The domains of the absence of disease and disability and maintaining physical and mental functioning showed a high rate of achievement, while the domain of active engagement with life showed a low rate of achievement compared to others. Successful aging was influenced by gender, age, subjective economic status, subjective health status, and family support, particularly spouse's support.
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Conclusion
- Intervention programs to increase the prevalence of successful aging are required. Especially programs for strengthening spouse's support and enhancing subjective health status are required.
Table 1
The Difference of Successful Aging by Characteristics of Subjects
Table 2
The Proportion of Successful Aging (N=4,507)
| Domain | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Absence of diseases | 3,590 (79.66) |
| Physical & mental function | 4,041 (89.66) |
| Active engagement | 987 (21.89) |
| Successful aging | 882 (19.56) |
Table 3
Influencing Factors of Subjectives' Characteristics on Successful Aging
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| Variables | Characteristics | Total | Successful aging | Usual aging | χ2 | p |
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| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Gender | Male | 2,028 (45.00) | 637 (72.30) | 1,391 (38.36) | 329.94 | <.001 |
| Female | 2,479 (55.00) | 244 (27.70) | 2,235 (61.64) | |||
| Age (year) | 65~74 | 2,676 (59.36) | 731 (82.88) | 1,945 (53.64) | 251.42 | <.001 |
| ≥75 | 1,831 (40.64) | 151 (17.12) | 1,681 (46.35) | |||
| Education | No education | 993 (22.03) | 91 (10.33) | 902 (24.98) | 122.25 | <.001 |
| Elementary school | 1,566 (34.74) | 283 (32.12) | 1,283 (35.38) | |||
| ≥Middle school | 1,948 (43.22) | 507 (57.55) | 1,441 (39.74) | |||
| Subjective economic status | Good | 1,221 (27.10) | 347 (39.39) | 874 (24.11) | 157.03 | <.001 |
| Usual | 2,206 (48.96) | 450 (51.08) | 1,756 (48.44) | |||
| Bad | 1,079 (23.94) | 84 (9.53) | 995 (27.45) | |||
| Subjective health status | Healthy | 863 (19.15) | 310 (35.18) | 553 (15.25) | 293.34 | <.001 |
| Usual | 1,894 (42.02) | 423 (48.01) | 1,471 (40.57) | |||
| Unhealthy | 1,750 (38.83) | 148 (16.80) | 1,602 (44.18) | |||
| Family support | Supported spouse | 2,364 (52.45) | 639 (72.45) | 1,725 (47.59) | 199.30 | <.001 |
| Unsupported spouse | 802 (17.79) | 134 (15.19) | 668 (18.42) | |||
| No spouse | 1,341 (29.75) | 109 (12.36) | 1,232 (33.99) | |||
| Supported children | 2,236 (49.61) | 423 (47.96) | 1,813 (50.01) | 48.40 | <.001 | |
| Unsupported children | 669 (14.84) | 76 (8.62) | 593 (16.36) | |||
| No children | 1,602 (35.54) | 383 (43.42) | 1,219 (33.63) |
| Domain | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Absence of diseases | 3,590 (79.66) |
| Physical & mental function | 4,041 (89.66) |
| Active engagement | 987 (21.89) |
| Successful aging | 882 (19.56) |
| Variables | Categories | Successful aging (n=882) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI | p | ||
| Gender | Male | 1.00 | ||
| Female | 0.29 | 0.25~0.36 | <.001 | |
| Age (year) | 65~74 | 1.00 | ||
| ≥75 | 0.33 | 0.26~0.40 | <.001 | |
| Education | No education | 1.00 | ||
| Elementary | 1.02 | 0.77~1.35 | .887 | |
| ≥Middle school | 0.77 | 0.58~1.06 | .073 | |
| Subjective economic status | Bad | 1.00 | ||
| Usual | 1.86 | 1.42~2.44 | <.001 | |
| good | 2.12 | 1.58~2.87 | <.001 | |
| Subjective health status | Unhealthy | 1.00 | ||
| Usual | 2.02 | 1.63~2.52 | <.001 | |
| healthy | 3.11 | 2.44~3.96 | <.001 | |
| Family support | No spouse | 1.00 | ||
| Unsupported spouse | 1.43 | 1.05~1.94 | .023 | |
| Supported spouse | 1.60 | 1.24~2.08 | <.001 | |
| No children | 1.00 | |||
| Unsupported children | 1.04 | 0.76~1.42 | .810 | |
| Supported children | 1.08 | 0.90~1.30 | .388 | |
| Likelihood ratio test | χ2=757.35, df=12, p<.001 | |||
| Goodness-of-fit test: Hosmer-Lemeshow | χ2=7.03, df=8, p=.533 | |||
| Correct Prediction (%) | 81.52 | |||
| Nagelkerke R2 | .25 | |||
Table 1
The Difference of Successful Aging by Characteristics of Subjects
%: Weighted %.
Table 2
The Proportion of Successful Aging (N=4,507)
Table 3
Influencing Factors of Subjectives' Characteristics on Successful Aging
OR=Odds ratio; CI=Confidence interval.
Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
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