The study aimed at investigating the nursing need as well as disability degree of the elderly based on daily living acting capability and living activity degree. The survey was conducted through the home-visit interview by the students of nurse college *who were previously trained during the months of October and November 1992. The survey targetted the elderly aged 65 years or more living at home.
The study tried to utilize Activity Inventory(AI) made for examing health and disease, disability degree, and living acting degree of the elderly. Among the AI´s, there are Physical Activity of Daily Living ( PADL) , Instrumental Activity of Daily Living(IADL), maxicium daily activity scope, and physical and mental activity level of the elderly.
Results of the study show that social activity degree of the elderly is found to be lower than that PADL, IADL, and daily living scope. It seems that the elderly suffer from inability in daily life with lower social activity degree. "Therefore development of adequate programs should be devised to encourage the social activity of the elderly, which will help in preventing the inability of IADL and daily acting capability. Health program should include a social activity encouraging program for sustaing healthy life after old-age.
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