A study of Health Status and Health Promotion Guidelines for Older persons in Nonsung Community, Udon Thani province
Keywords:
health status, health promotion guidelines, older persons healthAbstract
Introduction: Assessing health status of older persons and studying appropriate health promotion approaches for older persons can facilitate planning of health promotion strategies. This, in turn, can lead to improved health and quality of life for older persons, while reducing future dependency.
Research objective: To examine health status of older persons and investigate community - based health promotion approaches for older persons in Nonsung Community, Udon Thani province.
Research methodology: This descriptive research study assessed health status of 320 older persons selected by a simple random sampling. individuals and explored health promotion strategies with a sample of 30 participants were selected by purposive sampling. Data were collected during January to April,2024. The research instruments comprised a holistic health assessment form for older persons and an open - ended questionnaire on health promotion approaches. The questionnaire demonstrated a Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of .86. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics, while qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis methods.
Results: The health status assessment revealed that many older persons have chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Cognitive decline, knee joint issues, and vision abnormalities were also shown. The study identified several key health promotion strategies for the older persons: encouraging annual health check - ups, promoting social engagement, recommending appropriate exercise regimens, facilitating access to health information technology for both the older persons and their families, educating families about age-related decline to ensure appropriate care, organizing family activities, promoting awareness of healthcare and social benefits for the older persons, providing health consultations and assistance, implementing community - based home visit programs for dependent older persons, and enhancing necessary skills for family caregivers of socially active older, homebound older, bedridden older persons individuals.
Implication: Researchers can utilize the knowledge gained from these appropriate health promotion guidelines to develop and refine future health promotion programs for older persons.
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