Variety of Chronic Diseases of the Elderly in a Pension Institution in Guilin

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10.2991/978-94-6463-276-7_22How to use a DOI?

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Multiple chronic diseases; health management; Basic physiological indicators

Abstract

Objective

According to the clinical characteristics and types of chronic diseases of an elder care institution in Guilin, the number of multiple chronic disease types, basic physiological indicators, and influencing factors were counted. This paper aims to explore the establishment of an efficient risk management system for elderly care institutions in Guilin, Guangxi Province, based on the clinical characteristics and types of chronic, existing literature and the experience of Aged care institutions. Methods: SPSS22.0 was applied for statistical data analysis. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the characteristics of the general situation, and the Chi-square test was used to compare the prevalence of multiple chronic diseases in the elderly with sex, age, and other data. The laboratory indicators are measurement data, which determine whether it meets the normal distribution, and the mean ± standard deviation is expressed in line with the normal distribution, and independent samples t-tests are used between different groups. The difference of p<0.05 was used to determine whether it was statistically significant. Result: The number of chronic diseases and age, gender, marital status, and BMI were not statistically significant, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease and diabetes had a higher incidence in the elder care institution, and the most common two chronic diseases were combined with hypertension + cerebrovascular disease, followed by hypertension + diabetes, and the most common three chronic diseases were combined with hypertension + diabetes + cerebrovascular disease. LDL-C data were significantly different in the control group of older adults with more than 4 chronic diseases. Conclusion: Among the elderly with multiple chronic diseases hospitalized in this elder care institution, the proportion of elderly people suffering from 2 and 3 chronic diseases was the highest. Among the elderly with multiple chronic diseases hospitalized in this elder care institution, the mean value of LDL-C in the elderly control group with more than 4 chronic diseases was relatively low.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Meiting Wu
AU  - Shangyuhui Huang
AU  - Jingwen Liang
AU  - Tao Jiang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/27
TI  - Variety of Chronic Diseases of the Elderly in a Pension Institution in Guilin
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 4th International Conference on Big Data and Social Sciences (ICBDSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 214
EP  - 222
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-276-7_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-276-7_22
ID  - Wu2023
ER  -