An Empirical Study about the Effect of Summer Holiday Pension on Physical and Mental Health of the Elderly

DOI

10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pension pattern, Summer care for the aged, Quality of life, SF-36 scale

Abstract

This article studies the influence of summer holiday pension on the physical and mental health of the elderly. Provide a basis for the healthy lifestyle choice of the elderly and for the care of the elderly by the government or institutions, so as to improve the quality of life of the elderly. Using random sampling method, the SF-36 questionnaire was used to investigate the summer vacation habits and health status of 548 old people in Sichuan Province. Analyze the survey data that using descriptive statistics, internal consistency test, T test, correlation analysis and descriptive statistical. The score in the 9 dimensions of SF-36 scales, the mean value of elderly with summer holiday habit is higher than elderly without. But only the 7 dimensions of the score in General Health, Physical Function, Role-Physical, Bodily Pain, Vitality, Social Functioning and Mental Health, which the difference is statistically significant. The two dimensions of Role-Emotion and Reported Health Transition, which the difference isn’t statistically significant. Research discovered that in terms of overall health level, physical fitness, and mental health, elderly people with summer vacation habits are better than elderly people who without.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ge Wen
AU  - Shuangshuang Tang
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - An Empirical Study about the Effect of Summer Holiday Pension on Physical and Mental Health of the Elderly
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 45
EP  - 48
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.12
DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.12
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