Quality of Life in Older Adults: Benefits from Caring Services in Hong Kong |
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Authors: | Jacky Chau Kiu Cheung Alex Yui Huen Kwan Sophia Siu Chee Chan Raymond Man Hung Ngan Sik Hung Ng Edward Man Fuk Leung and Anna Lau |
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Institution: | (1) EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;(2) Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;(3) Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;(4) Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;(5) Solidage Research Group, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;(6) Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;(7) Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Many older adults are in need of care. Therefore, older people would generally benefit from the use of caring services, notably including home care, residential care, nursing, and medical services. The contributory factors underlying caring services tend to be a caring perspective that aspires to sustain older people s social relationships and real-life involvement. To gauge the benefits from various social and health services, the present study relies on a large-scale survey of 3000 older adults in Hong Kong, using quality of life as a criterion. Results showed that an older adult who had used (ordinary or enhanced) home care services for a longer time turned out to have appreciably more improvement in quality of life. Besides, those who joined an interest group more frequently were higher in quality of life, including the health domain. On the other hand, frequent use of medical and meal-to-home services were signals that reflected problems detrimental to the older user s quality of life. Despite this, the quality of clinics or hospitals, as perceived by the older adult, was the most beneficial. As such, caring services that foster older adults interests, cater to their health care needs, and embody quality can have principal contribution to their users quality of life. |
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