Needs and influence factors of medical-nursing-pension of disabled elderly

Abstract

As the population ages, the incidence of disabled elderly persons increases, and the need for medical-nursing-pension services among disabled senior persons increases. The purpose of this study is to determine the needs and affecting factors of disabled elderly living in community homes in Nanning, Guangxi, China. The study utilized the descriptive comparative cross-sectional study. Stratified random sampling was utilized, based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 168 disabled elderly were randomly selected and investigated using a self-designed questionnaire which included basic nursing services domain, professional nursing services domain, rehabilitative nursing services domain, living nursing services domain, and spiritual nursing services domain. The t test, one-way ANOVA, and multivariate logistic regression were used to determine the influencing factors of medical-nursing-pension demands for community-dwelling disabled elderly. Majority of impaired seniors have a moderate to high-level of demand for medical-nursing-pension services. Age (t = 2.369, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.673–7.414), educational level (t = −16.946, 95% CI: −31.247 to −24.726), monthly income (t = −16.273, 95% CI: −22.104 to −17.320), economic source (t = 8.891, 95% CI: 16.850–26.470), time spent disabled (t = −11.151, 95% CI: −31.845 to −22.264), living with children (t = 10.852, 95% CI: 24.491–35.521), and medical insurance participation (t = 4.556, 95% CI: 9.032–22.848) all influence the demand for medical-nursing-pension services for disabled seniors in the community (P = .05). Majority of community-dwelling impaired seniors have a moderate to high demand for medical-nursing-pension services. Relevant departments and community nurses should pay increased attention to the elderly who are older, have a low educational level, a low monthly income, have an economic source of pension from their own, have been disabled for long period of time, are single, and do not have children, to improve the health care system for disabled elderly by implementing more personalized home visits in medical-nursing-pension on health education about oxygen inhalation and wound dressing.