Satisfaction With Life in Elderly: Prevalence and Its Factors

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Rosa
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Santos, Preciosa, Andrade, Ana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2015.274

Background: Over the last few years, there has been a rising concern towards keeping elder people in their own homes instead of sending them to private institutions giving rise to home support services. The aim of this service is to act with the subject’s family (when present) in order to prevent him from falling apart from society and from feeling joy for living. Feeling joy for living is to which one relates at any given phase of his life, even through the old age. The joy for living is influenced by several components such as personal, social and psychological. Objectives: To identify the satisfaction levels towards life in the case of elder people with home support services and in what way it relates to socio-demographic and psychosocial variables. Methods: The investigation approach used is of the quantitative type, non-experimental, descriptive, correlative, retrospective and transversal. 66 elder people took part as subjects for this study. The gathering of data integrates the following sections: Personal factors, Situational factors, Family functionality scale evaluation and the Life satisfaction scale. Results: The most of the subjects for this study are above 70 years old married women. They don´t have nearly much studies, are retired due to old age and have limited financial resources. They benefit from home support services for between one to eight hours per week and their perception of the response to emergency, disease or financial situations is very positive. Most of the subjects find their family to be moderately dysfunctional and to have had a moderate or high level of engagement towards them. That most elder people are unsatisfied or moderately satisfied with their life in general, however, no statistic correlation was established between this last result and the sociodemographic and psychosocial variables.