A comparative study on the social support and general wel - being of the aged people between home - based care and pension institution - based care
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the current situation of social support and general well - being of the aged people receiving home -based care and pension institution - based care respectively and to analyze the correlation between them. Methods:The general information questionnaire,general well - being scale and the social support rating scale were used to investigate 170 aged people receiving home -based care and other 170 aged people receiving pension institution - based care and the correlation between general well - being of the aged people and social support status was analyzed. Results:The total scores of general well - being of the aged people were lower in those aged people who received home - based care than those received pension institution - based care(P ﹤ 0. 01);the social support was less in home - based care than that in pension institution - based care(P ﹤ 0. 05);the social support and general well - being of the aged peo-ple receiving home - based care and pension institution - based care were positively correlated(P ﹤ 0. 05,P ﹤ 0. 01). Conclusion:The so-cial support and general well - being of the aged people in pension institution are much more than the aged people at home. The pension in-stitution - based care will further be strengthened through the improvement of the service system of pension institutions.
Keywords：Pension institution - based careHome - based careGeneral well - beingSocial support
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 7-9 )