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<bold>Objectives:</bold> To examine the level of successful aging and the relationship between successful aging and activities of daily living (ADL), life satisfaction, social support, income, and self-efficacy among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China.
<bold>Methods:</bold> A descriptive correlational design was applied. Subjects were community-dwelling elderly in 4 districts of Wenzhou, China. Simple random sampling was used to recruit 83 participants. All participants were screened using the Mini-Cog tool. Data were collected using 6 questionnaires such as a demographic questionnaire, the Successful Aging Inventory (SAI), the Barthel Index for ADL, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis.
<bold>Results:</bold> The results showed that 53% of the participants had a higher level of successful aging and 43.4% had a moderate level of successful aging with a mean score of 56.76 (standard deviation [SD] = 12.31). Factors such as elderly income (<italic>r</italic> = 0.73, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001) and self-efficacy (<italic>r</italic> = 0.72, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001) had high correlations with successful aging, whereas ADL (<italic>r</italic> = 0.67, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001), life satisfaction (<italic>r</italic> = 0.63, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001), and social support (<italic>r</italic> = 0.36, <italic>P</italic> &lt; 0.001) had moderate correlations with successful aging.
<bold>Conclusions:</bold> There was a significant positive correlation between successful aging and ADL, life satisfaction, social support, income, and self-efficacy among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China. The findings may guide the formulation of more effective health education and intervention measures to improve successful aging among the elderly.
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Objectives: To examine the level of successful aging and the relationship between successful aging and activities of daily living (ADL), life satisfaction, social support, income, and self-efficacy among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China.
Methods: A descriptive correlational design was applied. Subjects were community-dwelling elderly in 4 districts of Wenzhou, China. Simple random sampling was used to recruit 83 participants. All participants were screened using the Mini-Cog tool. Data were collected using 6 questionnaires such as a demographic questionnaire, the Successful Aging Inventory (SAI), the Barthel Index for ADL, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analysis.
Results: The results showed that 53% of the participants had a higher level of successful aging and 43.4% had a moderate level of successful aging with a mean score of 56.76 (standard deviation [SD] = 12.31). Factors such as elderly income (r = 0.73, P < 0.001) and self-efficacy (r = 0.72, P < 0.001) had high correlations with successful aging, whereas ADL (r = 0.67, P < 0.001), life satisfaction (r = 0.63, P < 0.001), and social support (r = 0.36, P < 0.001) had moderate correlations with successful aging.
Conclusions: There was a significant positive correlation between successful aging and ADL, life satisfaction, social support, income, and self-efficacy among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China. The findings may guide the formulation of more effective health education and intervention measures to improve successful aging among the elderly.

Factors related to successful aging among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China

Department of Gerontological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing

Department of Community Nursing, Faculty of Nursing

Frontiers of Nursing

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Objectives: To examine the level of successful aging and the relationship between successful aging and activities of daily living (ADL), life satisfaction,...

Factors related to successful aging among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China

Article Category: Original Article

Published Online: Mar 20, 2023

Page range: 65 - 71

Received: Sep 29, 2022

Accepted: Nov 11, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2023-0007

Keywords
China, community-dwelling, elderly, risk factors, successful aging

© 2023 Chen-Yu Gu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Factors related to successful aging among community-dwelling elderly in Wenzhou, China

Article Category: Original Article

Published Online: Mar 20, 2023

Page range: 65 - 71

Received: Sep 29, 2022

Accepted: Nov 11, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2023-0007

KeywordsChina, community-dwelling, elderly, risk factors, successful aging

© 2023 Chen-Yu Gu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
China, community-dwelling, elderly, risk factors, successful aging