Factors Related to Healthy Aging among Elderly

Abstract

The research aimed to study healthy aging among elderly and its related factors included perceived health status, health promotion behavior, life
satisfaction, social support and spiritual wellbeing. The participants were 100 community dwellers aged 60 and older living in Warinchamrap town municipality, Ubonratchathanee province. They were selected by using a simple random sampling. The research instruments included the perceived health status scale, health promotion behavior scale, self-anchoring life satisfaction scale, Personal Resource Questionnaire 2000, Spiritual well-being, and the healthy aging scale, with their reliabilities of .89, .80, .89, .92, .94, and .96, respectively. Descriptive statistic and Pearson’ s product moment correlation were employed to analyze the data. The results indicated that the elderly informed themselves with high level of healthy aging ( = 144.66, S.D = 10.29). Social support and Spiritual Well-being were significant positive correlation with healthy aging at moderate level (r = .59, and .38), respectively. Perceived health status and health promotion behavior were significant positive correlation with healthy aging at low level (r = .22, and .24, respectively) and self-anchoring life satisfaction were significant negative correlation with healthy aging. According to the research findings, nurses and health care professionals should enhance social support, spiritual well-being,
perceived healthy status and health promotion behavior of the elderly as they are important factors related to their healthy aging.