title: Worries of independent older people regarding health and daily life: a survey of residents of a rural town in Japan.
abstract: The purpose of the study was to analyze the worries of independent older people regarding health and daily life. We collected data from 259 people who responded to the free descriptive questionnaire and analyzed it qualitatively and inductively. Thirteen categories derived from the results were classified into 6 types of worries: health worries, life function worries, daily life worries, long-term care worries, family relationship worries, and future life worries. Promoting the prevention of "long-term care status," the need for physical nursing care, in a super aging society, where the population of 65 years or older is more than 21% of all of the population, requires consideration of not only measures to deal with physical symptoms, but also measures to deal with psychological aspects, and social aspects.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Department of Community Health Nursing, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan. hamayu@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hamazaki
authors.forename: Makie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagai
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living / Q000523:psychology*; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires