Friday, 21 March 2025

Intrinsic Capacity of the Elderly: Connotation, Measurement, Status and Key Influencing Factors | Chapter 1 | Disease and Health: Research Developments Vol. 6

In the context of "healthy aging", strengthening research on the intrinsic capacities of the elderly, quickly and accurately evaluating them, objectively identifying factors that affect their decline in intrinsic capacities, and improving their intrinsic capacities through optimization measures can minimize the adverse health consequences and contribute to the healthy aging.

Objective: To understand the current research status of the intrinsic capacities of elderly people and provide a basis for targeted and personalized elderly care services.

Methods: A literature search was used for cross-sectional or cohort studies on the connotation, measurement, incidence rate and influencing factors of the internal ability of the elderly published in Chinese and English in the past 10 years in six databases, namely PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, China Biomedical Literature Database and CNKI.

Results: A total of 59 papers were included. The research on the intrinsic capacities of elderly people is still in the stage of exploring theoretical models. The research hotspots include the concept of intrinsic capacities, theoretical support, connotation dimensions, and construction of evaluation systems.

Conclusion: Studying the health status of elderly people from the perspective of intrinsic capacities not only meets the requirements of WHO for healthy aging, but also can build a foundation in the field of geriatric medicine a health security system that better meets the needs of the elderly population. The construction of standardized evaluation tools has to be strengthened, as well as multi-center, large sample longitudinal surveys and randomized controlled trials.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Hou Yongmei
Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Management, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, China.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/dhrd/v6/4281

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