What is it about?
- Five common co-morbidities among elderly were hypertension (67%), bone and joint pain (63%), gastric pain (67%), poor vision (58%), and hearing problems (33%). - The highest HRQoL score was social functioning (67.96) whereas the lowest HRQoL score is role limitation due to emotional problems (30.54). - There is a significant relationship between HRQoL domains and socio-demographic factors, and health condition.
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Why is it important?
The study highlighted need for health and social support like participating in association and access to health care for rural elderly in future programme.
Perspectives
Ageing is global phenomenon and our group working about HRQOL and co-morbidity about elderly in rural Malaysia would be a assist to the health care for the elderly.
Dr Thant Zin
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This page is a summary of: A study on health-related quality of life and comorbidity among elderly population in rural Sabah, Malaysia, South East Asia Journal of Public Health, July 2016, Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL),
DOI: 10.3329/seajph.v5i2.28311.
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