| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 生活應用科學系 === 101 === Taiwan has become an aging society since the year of 1993. At the end of 2011, the elder population constitutes 11% of total populations. Aging has become a critical issue nowadays. As the population ages, the cost of medical care and the need of care giving for the older adults has steadily raised. Health becomes the top priority of the government’s welfare policy toward the elderly. Active aging was developed by the WHO in 2002. It has become a framework of the elderly welfare policy development worldwide. Active aging is defined as a dynamic process of optimizing opportunities for participation, health, and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age (WHO, 2002), specified in three health dimensions which are as mental, physical, and social.
Regular physical activity is one of the most effective means that influence older adults in health and functional abilities. Further, self-efficacy has been identified as a critical factor toward regular physical activity participation. Due to family caring functions decline, the needs of elderly care organization increase. This study aims to investigate the relationships between self-efficacy of regular physical activity participation and active aging conditions of residents who live in elderly care organizations.
This study surveyed 200 elderly residents in 8 institutions with effective rate 97.5%. Self-efficacy Scale, IADL, SPMSQ, CES-D, and Social support & productivity Scale were applied to examine the aim of this study. Significant differences are found in self-efficacy on marriage status and weekly participating frequency; in active aging on children status and weekly participating frequency. Results indicate that self-efficacy is positively correlated to active aging. Furthermore, self-efficacy significantly predict active aging in this study.
Elderly care organization provide residence function, and maintain social support and independency of older adults to enhance their quality of life. The results of this study suggest government welfare policy makers and elderly care organization to promote regular physical activity to elderly residents. It helps increase their self-efficacy and overall active aging.
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