The Relationship between the Number of Chronic Diseases and Living Environment among Dementia Patients
Abstract
FENG Ze-yun, XIN Hong-yun, JIN Chun-lin, YANG Yi-tong, XIE Chun-yan, DU Li-xia, WANG Chang-ying,CHEN Duo and DING Hansheng
Aim: To understand the Relationship between the Number of Chronic Diseases and Living Environment among Dementia Patients.
Methods: The study uses the Aged Care Service Demand Questionnaire to obtain the subjects’ information on activities of daily living, physical health, mental health, and social resources and economic conditions et al. The current research use Chi-square independence test for analysis.
Results: In the current study, 64.95% of the dementia patients in the institution suffer from at least one chronic disease, but for those who live at home, only 14.54% of the dementia patients suffer from one and more chronic diseases. There are statistically difference between living at home and institutions in terms of the number of chronic diseases (P<0.0001).
Conclusion: There are closely relationships between chronic diseases and living environment, the public should realize the dementia patients could combine many chronic diseases at the same time due to their living environment.