Healthy life expectancy for successful aging and active aging elderly in Taiwan

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题名:	Healthy life expectancy for successful aging and active aging elderly in Taiwan
作者:	Lin, C.-H.;Liu, S.-C.
贡献者:	Department of Statistics, Tunghai University
关键词:	Active aging;Healthy life expectancy;Markov chain;Successful aging
日期:	2013
上传时间:	2014-05-30T03:01:26Z (UTC)
摘要:	Objectives: Improvements in the quality and quantity of life are equally important based on the concepts of successful aging and active aging. These include physical, mental and social well-being in old age. Instead of the past emphasis on improving morbidity or malfunction, the goal for health care of the elderly should focus on actively improving their comfort and overall quality of life. Methods: In order to explore the factors affecting the long term changes in the trends of successful aging and active aging of older people in Taiwan, we analyzed the data from a survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan conducted by the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare. Using the interpolated Markov chain approach, we projected the prevalence and healthy life expectancy. We also investigated the effects of chronic diseases e.g. hypertension, heart disease and diabetes on the differences in healthy life expectancy, successful aging, and active aging. Results: The influence of variables which positively affected successful aging and active aging declined as age increased. Similar results were observed for prevalence. For successful aging, healthy life expectancy accounted for approximately 40-50% of all life expectancy; of this, active aging accounts for about 15-25%. For each age group, diabetes lowered the percentage of healthy life expectancy compared to hypertension and heart disease. Conclusions: Achieving a high quality of active aging is an ideal goal for the government and health institutes. Among chronic diseases, diabetes had the most serious impact on healthy life expectancy and its prevention and treatment should be emphasized. (Taiwan J Public Health. 2013;32(6):562-575).
關聯:	Taiwan Journal of Public Health,Vol.32,Issue6,P.560-575
显示于类别:	[統計學系所] 期刊論文

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