Foreign elderly housebound (housebound) status and its influence factors.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Foreign elderly housebound (housebound) status and its influence factors Keywords: housebound; old; factors; abroad Housebound (house bound) or as “home bound”, the first concern is for housebound since 1963 by the American Snellgrove 1 proposed. Research background at the time: the first to enter an aging society in the developed countries, along with the elderly population increases, there also will be in bed the problem of growing population, consume a large amount of medical expenses, reduced quality of life in older age groups, to medical, nursing, home care, social support and so tremendous pressure. Researchers led by reason of that old bed, bed not only because of stroke and other physical disabilities caused by the daily life extremely narrow range of the formation of housebound, causing reduced physical and mental activity, disuse syndrome, eventually lead to bed status can be the causes 2. Study reveals health reasons, psychological factors and social incidence of environmental factors housebound 3, and announced the housebound state is led to bed, and an important factor in dementia 4,5. In Asia, population aging more serious problem in Japan, with the aging of the population to prevent the elderly become the care of the state of knowledge has gradually increased, as the lead in bed for a reason Takeuchi Xiao Yan 2 started in 1984 on the housebound (closed ri) study, was only fully explain reasons for the formation of the housebound, did not carry out related research. Until Lin Omuta 6 published in 1998, targeting community-housebound elderly study after study on this subject gradually increased to 9 7, 2000 Japanese Ministry of Health in the elderly care business 4th program, started as the prevention of elderly housebound syndrome, one of the measures of health care 10 10, 2002 On the development of village (housebound syndrome) and carried out assessment scale reliability and validity 11 . The “housebou