Quality of life among the elderly in suburban Hanoi, Vietnam: Needs assessment and socio-economic factors affecting the elderly care

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10.2991/iemss-17.2017.146How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Vietnam, population, elderly care, socio-economic factors.

Abstract

Vietnam is entering a period of population aging with major challenges. Increasing number of elderly people require care, both physically and mentally. According to statistics, Vietnam's population is "aging" very quickly at a rate unprecedented in history, the fastest in Asia. According to data from the Ministry of Health (2015), the elderly in Vietnam accounted for 10.5% of the national population. It is noteworthy that the average life expectancy of Vietnam has increased but the number of years of healthy life is quite low. Only about 5% of the country's elderly people are in good health, the remaining 95% bring in their health many diseases such as hypertension, arthritis, lung disease-chronic obstructive bronchitis, diabetes, dementia... The labor movement from rural to urban areas in the working age to work and the impact of the socio-economic changes make older people more than the actual age and older people increasingly get less support from family. This study aimed to find out the needs of daily care and the socio-economic factors affecting the elderly in suburban areas of Hanoi.

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© 2017, 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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AU  - Dung Nguyen Tien
AU  - GuangLi Zhang
PY  - 2017/04
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TI  - Quality of life among the elderly in suburban Hanoi, Vietnam: Needs assessment and socio-economic factors affecting the elderly care
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Economic Management and Social Science (IEMSS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 751
SN  - 2352-5428
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