Quality of life of the elderly homeless, nursing homes in Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua, México
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https://doi.org/10.15257/ehquidad.2019.0014Keywords:
Quality of Life, Elderly Homeless, Sarcopenia, Nutritional Status, Nursing HomesAbstract
This research was conducted by a multidisciplinary group ofCiudad JuarezChihuahuaandMeridaYucatanMexico. It is about the nutritional status, sarcopenia and quality life of 21 elderlys homeless living in distress and in nursing homes with ages ranging between 60 and 82 years old, and living in Casa Hogar Principe de paz, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. A questionnaire packet were used to measure their psysical, cognitive and psychosocial conditions. A quantitative approach was used, with cross-sectional design. To collect data the following instruments were used: sociodemographic questionnaire, the quality life scale of the World Health Organization Quality of life-Old (WHOQOL-OLD) Mini Nutritional Evaluation (MNA), European Group of work on Sarcopenia in the Elderly (EWGOP) and the index Katz of independence activities of daily life. According to the results the elderly homeless refers how they perceived the global quality of life; additionally, their nutritional status and the progress degree of the syndrome carachterized by a gradual and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and stenght (Sarcopenia) are present in 60%. Also the results refers that 67% of elderlys homeless are at malnutrition risk. Finally, it is concluded that the elderly homeless perceived their global quality of life as regular.
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