[To assess the demands of community-based health care service among 717 elderly].
OBJECTIVE To understand the demands and influencing factors on the community-based health care service (CHS) among the elderly and to provide evidence of implementing health service for them


METHODS
Cluster sampling method was used on 717 persons aged 60 and above in Yanjiao Developing Area. A survey was carried out, using questionnaire and focus group discussion approaches.


RESULTS
Data showed that a two-week prevalence of diseases was 56.3% while the overall prevalence of chronic diseases was 92.1% with 70.0% of them suffering from more than two kinds of chronic diseases. The rates of ADL and IADL loss were 1.8% and 7.0% respectively with 37.0% of them sought medical consultation in the past two weeks. Major reason affecting the use of health service was low income. 57.7% of the elderly expressed their willingness of accepting CHS with the strongest demands as regular physical check-up, health education and consultation, specialized care services, home care service while major reasons hindering the acceptance of CHS could be referred to self-perception on good stamina and lack of awareness to CHS.


CONCLUSIONS
The demands of CHS in the elderly were greater than those in general population that called for CHS programs to be acceptable and relevant to meet the different needs.
Zhu
Xiao-ping
XP
Department of Internal Medicine the Hospital of Beijing Municipal Baraeau of Water Resources, Beijing 100036, China.
Liu
Xue-rong
XR
Ye
Wen
W
Zhang
Jing
J
Bai
Xiao-ling
XL
Yu
Pu-lin
PL
Wu
Zheng-lai
ZL