The Comparative Study of the Support Needs of the Urban and Rural Elderly in the City of Gonabad in 2014
Masoumeh Amiri Delui and Heidarali Abedi*Department of Medical Sciences Deputy, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran. Corresponding Author Email: abedi.iau@hotmail.com
Abstract: This research had done to determine and comparison of the underlying support needs in urban and rural elderly in 3139 was done. The questionnaires were collected after informed consent was interviewed, then the software (ver22) SPSS, were analyzed. Among 430 elderly urban and rural 6/42 Male 4/46% female, mean age 72/7 ± 22/74 and 1/65% illiterate in urban population and 57% of men and 6/53% female with an average age of 99 / 7 ± 23/75 and 7/80% of the rural population were illiterate. The need for health services in urban 3/19% compared with the villagers 5/5% of the needs of education in urban 6/78% compared with the villagers 5/48, the access to transportation in urban samples 8/19% compared to the rural sample 7/27%, the financial ability to buy meat protein urban group 2/17 15.9% compared with rural elders, there are places in the recreational needs for leisure in the city 1 / 65% in the rural group 4/95 and material support in the urban average of 60/35% in rural and 17/32% respectively. The study in the field of urban elderly support health care, personal care, nutrition, housing, recreational and materially better than rural elderly. But educational support in the area of rural society was in a better condition. Also safety and emotional support, structural, functional subset of social support are significant differences were observed. So with regard to vulnerable seniors in rural than urban elderly due regard to the needs of this population seems necessary.
Keywords: support needs; the elderly; town; village Back to TOC