Relationship between Abuse Experience and Quality of Life of Community Dwelling Older Adults

Due to the poor functioning in daily living activities, community-dwelling older adults spend more time in their neighborhood environment. The perceived neighborhood environment is crucial to their quality of life (QoL). To explore the complex influences of perceived neighborhood environment on QoL, a questionnaire was designed to measure their perception of each factor of neighborhood environment and each domain of QoL. Based on collected data, the reliability test was applied to revise the questionnaire. Multiple linear regression (MLR) and structural equation modeling (SEM) were adopted to hypothesize and test the integrated model for community-dwelling older adults. The results show that community-dwelling older adults’ perceptions of neighbor support, facilities related to physical exercise and recreation, and accessibility to facilities impact their overall QoL with diverse coefficients of 0.437, 0.312, and 0.295, respectively; neighbor support (0.207) on physical health; sidewalk condition (0.134), natural environment (0.260), and facilities related to daily life (0.165) on psychological health; and neighbor support (0.298), facilities related to daily life (0.206), and design-related safety (0.225) on social relationship. This revealed that perceptions of neighborhood environment have diverse impacts on their QoL. This study can provide targeted retrofit strategies for communities to enhance QoL of community-dwelling older adults efficiently.

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The impact of subjective memory complaints on quality of life in community-dwelling older adults

Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1111/psyg.12056 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 175-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Yohko Maki ◽

Tomoharu Yamaguchi ◽

Tetsuya Yamagami ◽

Tatsuhiko Murai ◽

Kenji Hachisuka ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Older Adults ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Subjective Memory Complaints ◽

Subjective Memory ◽

Memory Complaints ◽

The Impact ◽

Community Dwelling Older Adults

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The type 2 diabetes-specific dementia risk score (DSDRS) is associated with frailty, cognitive and functional status amongst Mexican community-dwelling older adults

BMC Geriatrics ◽

10.1186/s12877-020-01776-5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Omar Yaxmehen Bello-Chavolla ◽

Carlos Alberto Aguilar-Salinas ◽

José Alberto Avila-Funes

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Type 2 Diabetes ◽

Older Adults ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Related Factors ◽

Dementia Risk ◽

Sf 36 ◽

Community Dwelling Older Adults

Abstract Background The type 2 diabetes (T2D) specific dementia-risk score (DSDRS) was developed to evaluate dementia risk in older adults with T2D. T2D-related factors have been shown increase the risk of age-related conditions, which might also increase dementia risk. Here, we investigate the associations of DSDRS with frailty, disability, quality of life (QoL) and cognition in community-dwelling older adults with T2D. Methods We included 257 community-dwelling older adults with T2D to evaluate the association between DSDRS and Mini-mental state examination (MMSE), Isaac’s set-test (IST), clock drawing test (CDT), quality of life (SF-36), risk of malnutrition (Mini-Nutritional Assessment or MNA), as well as frailty, Katz’ and Lawton-Brody scores. We also assessed the phenotype and correlates of high-estimated dementia risk by assessing individuals with DSDRS >75th age-specific percentiles. Results Mean age of participants was 78.0 ± 6.2 years. DSDRS showed a significant correlation with MMSE test, IST, CDT, SF-36, MNA, Lawton-Brody and Katz scores, and an increasing number of frailty components. DSDRS was higher among frail, pre-frail, and subjects with limited ADL and IADL (p < 0.001). Participants with DSDRS >75th age-specific percentiles had lower education, MMSE, IST, SF-36, MNA, Katz, Lawton-Brody, and higher frailty scores. High-estimated 10-year dementia risk was associated with ADL and IADL disability, frailty and risk of malnutrition. When assessing individual components of DSDRS, T2D-related microvascular complications were associated to all outcome measures. Conclusion The DSDRS is associated with frailty, disability, malnutrition and lower cognitive performance. These findings support that T2D-related factors have significant burden on functional status, QoL, disability and dementia risk.

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