نشریه سالمندشناسی
سال چهارم شماره 2 (پیاپی 13، تابستان 1398)

 Since hospitals are one of the most prolific and vital areas for the elderly, and the evaluation of the present situation is one of the first steps to create an appropriate environment, this study was aimed at determing effective factors in an assessing tool for evaluating the structural characteristics of age- friendly hospitals.

In this methodological research, a list of items was provided based on existing components for other age-friendly environments such as city, park, sanatorium and home. Then, the content validity was determined using a panel of experts including civil engineers, architects, ergonomists, and gerontologists, and the determination of face validity with a team of evaluators including MSC Gerontology, occupational health, environmental health and ergonomics.

With the help of the research team, 194 primary items in 20 domains were reduced to 100 in 19 domains. Content validity and face validity processes reduced the number of items to 72 items and 17 domains, respectively.

Findings of this research by determining the present conditon and identifing suitable ergonomics interventions could be effective to promote comfort, safety, and independency of aged pepople in hospitals.

With the inter of old age, it gradually diminishes the psychological and social activities of individuals, which increases the mood syndrome of depression, anxiety, stress and social isolation of the elderly.The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of four-dimensional physical-psychological interventions (Alexander technique, dohsa-hou method, compositional reminiscence & role playing, and combination method on the Improving Levels of Mood Syndrome and social isolation in age old Women.

The statistical population was all women at the end of middle age and the beginning of the elderly period in Isfahan. The sample consisted of 75 women aged 60-75 years’ old who were assigned to five groups of 15 (four experimental and one control group) and received relevant interventions. The depression, anxiety, stress and social isolation in pre-test, post-test and follow-up were measured by standard or researcher-made tests.

The results of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that the main effect for all groups in all variables was significant (P=0.001). Although the combination method was significantly more effective than other therapeutic methods on depression, stress and social isolation, reminiscence had a significantly more effective effect on reducing anxiety than other therapies.

 In order to increase psychological well-being in aging and to improve mood creation as well as promoting social interactions in this period, the use of psychological psychological interventions in this research is recommended, such as Alexander, dohsa-hou method and reminiscence.

Considering the increasing population of the elderly and the need to pay attention to health issues and finding effective therapies, The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of the educational package based on the meaning of loneliness and self-efficacy of retired teachers.

The method of this quasi-experimental study was pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical sample of this study was 30 retired elderly residents of Kerman, who were selected by available sampling method. They were randomly assigned to two groups of experimental (15 subjects) and control (15 people). To collect data, the loneliness questionnaire of Russell (1980) and the self efficacy questionnaire 1981) were used. For data analysis, covariance analysis was used.

The findings showed that After adjusting the pre-test scores, the difference between the experimental and control groups in the self-efficacy variable was significant at the alpha level of 0.01, (F=44/534), Also, after adjusting the pre-test scores, the difference between the experimental and control groups in the sense of loneliness was also significant at the alpha level of 0.01, (F=34/16).

Therefore, the hypothesis of the research on the effectiveness of the educational package based on the psychometrics on loneliness and self-efficacy in the post-test is confirmed. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the use of educational package based on meaning therapy due to cultural and religious affiliation can be more effective against other therapeutic methods in reducing loneliness and increasing self-efficacy.

Nurses, as nursing care providers, have a pivotal role and a unique role in effecting the quality of care. The attitude of nurses on their preference for working with elderly people and the quality of care provided to them is effective. This study aimed to investigate the attitude of nursing students and nurses towards the care of elderly people.
 

To obtain articles on the attitude of nurses about the care of elderly people, the researchers first selected some keywords such as “attitude of nurses, nursing students, elderly and needs of elderly”. Then they tried to search these keywords  in some Persian language databases like ” SID, Magiran and IranMedex”. To find some English articles published between 2000-2018, the researchers also searched the keywords in some scientific databases like “ Scopus, Science Direct, Cochran library, Google Scholar, Ovid and PubMed”. Finally, based on the amount of articles related to search topics and include criteria, 24 related articles were selected and reviewed.

Nurses’ and nursing students’ attitudes towards care of elderly people were positive, negative and neutral. Many variables were evaluated as effective factors on nurses’ attitude, such as age, gender, level of education and work experience. It seems that having a positive attitude toward aging has an important role in choosing nurses in nursing care.

Since the knowledge of nurses in the field of aging is influential on the type of attitude and selecting their priority toward care of elderly patients, therefore, it is necessary to look at the education of elderly patient’s cognition in nursing education levels with more emphasis.

Elderly health is one of the most important health issues in most societies that can be prevented by elderly problems through health care education. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of multimedia education on promoting healthy lifestyle of the elderly in Tehran.

This clinical trial study was performed on two groups of thirty elderly people with mean age (63.41 6 6.88) who were members of the elderly focal points of Tehran neighborhoods with moderate to poor lifestyle scores. Intervention group received healthy lifestyle training in old age using multimedia educational software and the control group did not receive any intervention. Three months later, the lifestyle of the two intervention and control groups was again assessed.

There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups in the two groups after the intervention (P <0.001).
 

Lifestyle education using multimedia educational content is effective in the elderly and due to the importance of healthy lifestyle in preventing the problems of old age and due to the limitations of the elderly for attending healthy lifestyle training classes, The above method can improve the health of the elderly.

Social participation in elders is one of the important factors affecting the physical and mental health and Logo therapy, is provided an opportunity to enable members to recognize, understand, and free themselves from barriers that impede their freedom. This study aimed to evaluate effect of group's Logo therapy on social relationship of Retirees members of the Education Center of Bojnourd. 

The research units of this study were 50 retirees of the Education Center of Bojnourd. The available sampling method was used to select the research units. The research units were randomly assigned to two groups of Test and control. The group's Logo therapy were held for an 8-week a 90 minutes session every week. To eliminate the effects of the group, talk sessions on daily for the control group held every week for a 90-minute session for every week. Social participation was measured using the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) questionnaire and in two previous steps and immediately after the intervention. Statistical analysis was performed by SATA ver.12. Analytical tests including T test, Mann Whitney, Shapiro-Wilk, Chi square and covariance tests.

Based on the results of this study, the mean of social participation in the Logo therapy group before and after the intervention was 13/24±3/58 and 52/57 ±17/83 after intervention (P <0.05) There was significant difference between two studied intervention groups which received logo therapy and Not (P=0.004).

In this study, we concluded that logo therapy sessions were effective significantly in social relationship of retired individuals.

Elderly Demographic change will have a significant impact on societies. Locomotive disorders are common and important cause of disability and reduced quality of life in old age. Recognizing screening methods, can be early detection Locomotive syndrome (LS), prevented the incidence, prevalence and disability caused by this syndrome. The aim of this study is to integrative review of screening methods for LS in the elderly.

In this review study, searches in international and national databases and journals: Science Direct, PubMed, Scopus, Irandoc, SID, with keywords Locomotive syndrome, Locomotive disorder, screening tool, assessment tool, physical performance test, from 2000 to 2018were extracted and reviewed.

from 70 related articles, 19 English articles were reviewed. Methods and tests used to assess, evaluate and LS screening in 19 Articles related to the purpose of this study include evaluation method of 9 - Physical and 3 questionnaire or Evaluation Checklist. These include: stand up test, one-leg standing test (with open eye), two-steps test, 5-times-sit-to-stand test, 6-walking time, the 10-m gait time, measuring back muscles strength and grip strength, timed up-and-Go (TUG Test), maximum stride, self-check list (Loco-check), questionnaires GLFS-25 and GLFS-5.

In this study, screening methods of LS described. Because of the importance of the LS, using the perfect screening methods recommended in elders, for timely detection of LS.

Iran has surpassed its population structure changes to an elderly country, as a result, their mental and physical health problems become important. This study aimed to compare the mental and physical health of resident and non-resident elderly people.

this research is cross sectional conducted in Tehran city. Statistical sample in this research include 160 elders in three groups resident in home, elders resident in private and public elderly homes. Australian Ministry of Health questionnaires have been used to collect data that reliability and validity of questionnaires has been proven by Alizade et al (2008). In addition, TOPSIS technique has been used for data analysis.

Among the factors affecting mental and physical health, the option of elderly living at home with index 0.044291 is in the first rank, the second is the elderly living in a private sanatorium with the index 0.005953 and elderly living in a public sanitary are in third rank with the index 0.004557.

The results showed that there is a significant difference between the elderly living in the private and public sanatorium in terms of mental and physical health and its components. The most important factors are: psychological distress index, that in terms of less importance of this index, elderly living in home are in first rank, elderly living in the private nursing homes are in the second rank and the elderly living in the public sanatorium are in third rank. Physical performance evaluation and evaluation of everyday activities performance in terms of most important of this factor, elderly living in home are in the first rank, elderly living in the private nursing homes are in the second rank and the elderly living in the public sanatorium are in third rank.