Aging and quality of life of elderly people in rural areas

• Autor(a) principal: Juliana Ladeiragarbaccio
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Luís Antonio Batista Tonaco, Wilson Goulart Estêvão, Bárbara Jacome Barcelos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/64332
• topic: Zona Rural; Qualidade de Vida; Assistência Integral à Saúde; População Rural; Idoso; Qualidade de Vida; Assistência Integral à Saúde; Zona Rural

Objective: To evaluate the quality of life and health of elderly in rural areas of Minas Gerais State’s center-west. Method: Cross-sectional study, in four municipalities of Minas Gerais State, by interviewing elderly people. Associations between socio-demographic and quality of life variables were tested, separated into “satisfactory”/“unsatisfactory” with values from the median of positive answers. It was used the chi-square test, Fisher’s test and regression. Results: 182 elderly answered the questions and showed a relation with the “satisfactory” quality of life — bivariate (p < 0.05): age by 69 years (61.6%), married (61.7%), living by 54 years in rural areas (68%), with no fi nancial support (59.5%), living with someone else (61%), non-smoker (60%), presenting good health (76.7%), satisfi ed with life (69.6%); regression: not having fi nancial support, living with someone else and not smoking. Conclusion: Elderly people in rural areas present good quality of life/health in the cognitive aspect, access to services, goods, habits, but awareness must be constant due to their weakness.