The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2016
Official Conference Proceedings

The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2016
Official Conference Proceedings

The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2016
Official Conference Proceedings

Aim: To understand the Relationship Between the Number of Chronic Diseases and
Living Environment Among Dementia Patients. Methods: The study use the Aged
Care Service Demand Questionnaire to obtain the subjects’ information on activities
of daily living, physical health, mental health, and social resources and economic
conditions et al.. The current research use Chi-square independence test for analysis.
Results: In the current study, 64.95% of the dementia patients suffer from at least one
chronic disease, but for those who live at home, only 14.54% of the dementia patients
suffer from one and more chronic diseases. There are statistically difference between
living at home and institutions in terms of the number of chronic diseases (P<0.0001).
Conclusion: There are closely relationship between chronic diseases and living
environment, the public should realize the dementia patients could combine many
chronic diseases at the same time due to their living environment.

Keywords: dementia; living environment; chronic disease

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