QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE ELDERLY IN THACH THAN COMMUNE, QUOC OAI DISTRICT, HANOI CITY IN 2021

Vũ Minh Tuấn1,, Phùng Chí Ninh2, Nguyễn Hồng Uyên2, Lê Huyền Trang3, Phạm Thị Thu Huyền1
1 Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University
2 Hanoi Medical University
3 Vietnam National Children's Hospital

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Abstract

A cross-sectional descriptive study on 200 people ≥ 60 years old in Thach Than commune, Quoc Oai district, Hanoi city in 2021 to survey the status of quality of life with the aim of describing the status of quality of life of elderly people with the EQ-5D-5L toolkit. The results show that the proportion of elderly people who rank good quality of life accounts for 51.5%. The average EQ-5D index of the elderly is 0.77 (SD = ±0.13). There is a relationship between the quality of life of the elderly and age group, marital status, gender, education level, living situation, help, occupation, economic conditions, number of times of illness in the previous month before research, number of chronic diseases, periodical health examination, health self-assessment

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