The problems of the elderly related to the hospital physical environment and the factors affecting

The aim of this study is to determine the problems experienced by the elderly due to the hospital physical environment and the factors affecting including quality of life. The study was cross-sectional and was performed among elderly people aged 65 years and over who applied to Bozok University Health Application and Research Center Hospital and Yozgat City Hospital, in 2019. The study whose sample size was calculated as n = 384,was included 400 individuals.. Results was obtained with socio-demographic data form prepared by the researcher, short form of quality of life (SF12) and questionnaire determining the appropriateness of physical arrangements in and around the hospital. The questionnaires were completed by the researcher through the interviewer. More than 2/3 of adequate physical arrangements in and around the hospital has been considered as sufficient. Data were evaluated with SPSS program. Adequacy level was analyzed with chi-square test and binary logistic regression. Forty-nine point three percent of the participants was woman, 67.5% was married, 48.3% was in the 65-69 age group, 22.3% was illiterate, 67.3% lives spouses and / or with their children, 80.5% has at least one chronic disease and 65.5% uses assistive means. The average physical and mental health score is 37.94 and 41.85, respectively. %74,8 of the elderly say that in-hospital arrangements, 25,0% of the elderly say that around the hospital arrangements are sufficient, 67,0% of them give a positive opinion about safety and comfort of in-hospital arrangements and 23,8% of them give a positive opinion about safety and comfort of around hospital arrangements. The probability of finding in-hospital arrangements sufficiently safe and comfortable was found to be higher among those who applied to city hospitals, men, married, people living in the city center and those with high physical health scores. Three quarters of elderly stated that in-hospital physical arrangements and ¼ of them stated that around hospital physical arrangements are sufficient. The elderly considered these arrangements to be equally safe and comfortable. As the physical quality of life of the elderly increased, they evaluated evaluated the hospital as physically more adequately, but there was no relationship with the quality of mental life.