Family burden and its influencing factors of long term care for disabled elderly
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the status quo of family burden of long term care for disabled elderly,and probe into its influencing factors.Methods:A total of 288 disabled elderly and their caregivers received the inves-tigation by using the disease family burden scale(FBS)and Katz’s ability of daily life index (Katz ADL).Re-sults:46.5% of the families had a serious burden,35.1% of the families had moderate burden,the standardized alerage scores of FBS in all dimensions from high to low followed by daily life at home(0.715),family entertain-ment(0.697),economic burden(0.503),family relationship(0.346),physical health of family members(0.219)and mental health of family member(0.182).Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the elderly self care ability,age,disability time and family per capita monthly income were the influencing factors of family burden. Conclusion:The family burden of long term care for disabled elderly was heavier,we should strive to improve their self ability,increase the government’s pension subsidies,reduce the family burden of the disabled elderly.
Keywords：disabled elderlyfamily burdenlong term carecaregiverability of daily life
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：4( 2584-2587 )