Wednesday, 20 December 2023

Navigating the Challenges of Aging: A Study on Life Satisfaction and Support Expectation among Older Adults in Nigeria | Chapter 7 | Current Innovations in Disease and Health Research Vol. 9

This member highlights about life Delight and Support Expectation among Earlier Adults in Nigeria. Growth satisfaction has recently existed introduced as the best sign of the quality of life. Delight with life is a somewhat general and deep inner satisfaction that emanates from individual knowledge in the outside world. Life vindication is considered as a subjective idea that assesses several ranges including health, emotional, and social in earlier people’s life, it could be an necessary part of successful fading This observatory, cross sectional study was completed activity at the Geriatric clinic of the Area of Family Medicine, Ekiti State University Hospital connected with university, Ado Ekiti over a three period period (October 2022-December 2022). A total of 128 subjects engaged in in the study out of which 28.9% were appeased with life. Anticipation of support was mainly from the family, less from the society and very low from the management. The level of support received from all sources mainly fell short of expectations. Matrimonial status and source of occupation were significantly associated with history satisfaction. There is incompetent social support from the management and support from family and community drop below expectations. The larger dissatisfaction with history among pensioners may evenly be related to proceeds as government do not pay pensioner as at when due and skilled is no so-cial insurance for the older adults in Nigeria. The most forceful correlation between anticipations of support and life satisfaction was establish. In order to fulfill earlier folks' beliefs and raise their degree of life delight, support needs to be provided.


Author(s) Details:


F. O. Aina,
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.

B. O. Fakuade,
Department of Dental/Maxillofacial, Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Nigeria.

T. A. Agbesanwa,
Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.

M. U. Dada,
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.

J. O. Fadare,
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.

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