Developing A healthy care model for aging

This study has been carried out to define and develop a healthy model for caring the elderly peopleand it has been analytically as well as retrospectively planned. The research has been performed at Family Health Centres of Kastamonu Directorate of Public Health, Çankırı İsmail Özdemir Nursing Home and KarabükYücel Nursing Home bounded to Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies and the sampling has been realised through 420 elderly people. The socio-demographic characteristics of the people who are 65 years old and over residing at the nursing home and having applied to the family health centre have been analysed with questions about physical variants, psychological variants and socio-cultural variants along with the relation with the dependent variant, getting old healthily. The data has been gathered by the researcher through Elderly Identification Form, Healthy Life Style Scale (HLSS), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS), Social Support Scale of Multiple Dimensions (SSSMD), Scale for Ways of Coping Inventory (WCI), and Daily Life Activities Scale (DLAS). In the assessment of the data, Pearson Ki-Kare and Fisher Exact tests are used to compare the frequency, percentage and average rates and qualitative data. Logistic regression analysis is used to examine the significant risk factors discovered in the Univariateanalyses. In the logistic regression analysis, variants are chosen with Forward LR method and risk rates (Odds ratio) are calculated referring to the first categories. As a result, the variants are meaningful altogether, not one by one. Accordingly, the elderly people who prove to have an efficient level in the categories of low level of depression, high level of coping with stress, visiting the friends, going for a walk regularly, being sometimes in need of scientific, technical and cultural knowledge, sleeping in certain hours of the day, working, having sufficient amount of income and cultural habits carried out for health and daily life activities have been defined to be getting old more healthily. In the light of the gathered results and the literature knowledge, the study is based on Model Holistic Approach. As a result of the study, a Model for Healthy Aging and Care has been developed appropriate for Turkish cultural framework.