Study On The Self-Supporting Ability And Potential Demand Of The Elderly In Urban Communities Of Anhui Province From The Perspective Of Empowerment Theory

Objective The purpose of this study is to through the understanding of urban community of elderly endowment ability and willingness to self,explore the influencing factors,and to dig deeper into the community elderly endowment the potential demand of itself,and then with the help of the empowerment theory to guide targeted countermeasures and Suggestions,in order to maximize the play the subjective initiative in terms of pension in the elderly,meet the demand of the elderly self pension,to a certain extent save social endowment of resources,promote the development of healthy aging.Methods In this study,the elderly aged ≥60 years old in urban communities in Anhui Province were selected as the research objects,and the current situation was studied.Using stratified random sampling method,based on geographic location,population distribution and economic development in anhui province level,the characters of fuyang,hefei in anhui and south anhui tongling city,each city randomly1-2 area,were randomly chosen 2-3 community,investigators used the potential demand of the urban community elderly endowment ability and self questionnaire for on-site survey.The survey data were collected,reviewed and coded.Epi Data 3.1software was used to build the database.After double entry,the files were exported to SPSS statistical software for reading,and the subsequent data analysis was carried out with SPSS statistical software.Results(1)Basic information: 1050 questionnaires were actually sent out,and 1012 were effectively received,with an effective response rate of 96.4%.The age ranged from(60 to 95)years old,with an average age of(71.58 ± 7.16)years old.The population distribution of all ages was relatively average,mainly concentrated in 60 to69 years old(43.1%).The number of females(58.1%)was slightly higher than that of males(41.9%).The education level was mainly primary school or below(55.1%);The former occupations were mainly agricultural and forestry personnel(36.0%)and general staff/service personnel/workers(31.9%);The main source of income is their own pension(62.9%);The distribution of people with disposable income was relatively average,with the maximum ≥3000 yuan per month(27.0%);The main residence types were to live with spouse(53.6%)or grandchildren(33.5%).(2)Self-supporting ability:The overall score of self-supporting ability of the elderly in urban communities was(62.76±15.87)points.Among the three regions,Fuyang had the highest score(66.06±16.86)points and Hefei had the lowest score(59.64±15.51)points.The scores of self-care ability in Hefei are lower than those in other two places in terms of physiology,economy and health maintenance.(3)Self-supporting willingness: 598(59.1%)of the elderly in urban communities had strong self-supporting willingness,while 414(40.9%)had weak self-supporting willingness.Among regions,the autotrophic willingness from strong to weak was Hefei(69.0%)BBB 0 Fuyang(55.7%)BBB 1 Tongling(42.2%);(4)Classification of autotrophic ability and willingness consistency: the first category,namely,the number of people with strong autotrophic ability and willingness was 394 at most(38.9%);The second category was 229 persons(22.6%)with strong ability but weak willingness to support themselves.The third category,namely,204 persons(20.2%)with weak ability but strong willingness to support themselves;The fourth category had at least 185 patients(18.3%)with weak ability and willingness to support themselves.Multivariate analysis found that age,city,gender,previous occupation,main income source,monthly income,self-perceived health and life satisfaction were the influencing factors of the elderly’s potential needs for self-care(P<0.05).(5)Self-pension social support demand: the majority of the elderly have no clear expectations on the government and social level(45.2%),the other top three expectations are pension(35.7%),medical care(25.5%),living environment(15.7%);The expectation of community level is not clear at most(59.8%),the other top three expectations are: community environment(22.9%),community facilities(19.1%),health consultation(12.8%);The ranking of expectation for family is: give greetings,care(49.7%)> comply with my will(37.2%)BBB>nancial support(31.4%)BBB2 o>(2.5%).Conclusion The overall self-supporting ability of the elderly in urban communities in Anhui province is at the middle level and their self-supporting willingness is strong.Most of the elderly with strong self-supporting ability and will can realize self-supporting.A few of them have weak ability and will to support themselves and need social burden.According to the weak part of self-supporting ability and self-supporting will,we should take measures to increase the right of the elderly,so as to improve their self-supporting will and self-supporting ability,and achieve the goal of supporting the elderly.