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KMID : 1034520190130020065
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Journal of Occupational Therapy for the Aged and Dementia
2019 Volume.13 No. 2 p.65 ~ p.76
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An investigation of activities of daily living in older adults with hearing impairment
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Moon Jong-Hoon
Park Su-Jong
Kim Jeong-Ki
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Abstract
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Objective : The aim of this study was to examine the comparison betweeen activities of daily living(ADL) according to characteristics of elderly people with hearing impairment, and the relationship between characteristics related to variables and ADL.
Methods : This study used raw data of 2017 National Survey of the Disabled Persons. Among the total of 6,549 subjects, 668 elderly people with hearing impairment were included in the analysis. General characteristics were set as age, gender, family income, educational level, and disability grade, hearing aid, sign language, time point of presence of disability. The ADL was evaluated basic activities of daily living(B-ADL) 12 areas and instrumental activities of daily living(I-ADL) 10 areas. Statistical analysis was performed the and independent t test, chi-squre test, Mann-whitney u test, correlation analysis.
Results : The older female with hearing impairment needed more help in dressing, bathing, gait, transfer, bladder control and I-ADL s shopping, drug management, money management and using transportation compared to male(p<.05). Hearing impairment person with hearing aid use needed more help B-ADL s dressing, and I-ADL s telephone use, shopping, drug management, money management and using transportation compared to hearing impairment person with hearing aid non-use(p<.05). As a result of correlation analysis between ADL area, age, and disability grade, the level of correlation coefficients of I-ADL areas was higher than that of B-ADL areas.
Conclusion : According to gender and hearing aid of older adults with hearing impairment, differences of specific areas of ADL were found, and it was found that the problem of I-ADL were serious as the aging progressed than B-ADL. Based on these results, we suggest that community-based occupational therapy programs for the improvement of ADL performance in older adults with hearing impairment are needed.
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KEYWORD
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Elderly, Hearing impairment, Activities of daily living
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