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Old Aged Quality of Life : Brazil – India a Cross-cultural Perspective
With the purpose of serving as a reference on dealing with the old aged this cross-cultural research aimed to compare Quality of Life of aged from two opposite civilizations to establish parameters of impact on Quality of Life of old aged world-wide. Two non- selected low income samples of aged volu...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Indian Journal of Gerontology
2009
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006508.pdf |
| Summary: | With the purpose of serving as a reference on dealing with the old
aged this cross-cultural research aimed to compare Quality of
Life of aged from two opposite civilizations to establish parameters
of impact on Quality of Life of old aged world-wide. Two non-
selected low income samples of aged volunteers, one from Brazil
(Figueira, 2008) and another one from India (Verma, 2008) were
taken. In this correlational descriptive research, the old aged
answered a WHOQOL questionnaire on Quality of Life, from World
Health Organization (WHOQOL-Old and WHOQOL-100
respectively). Comparing their answers it was presented a
comparison of priority, Quality of Life, in the themes of the
questionnaires by the old aged of both populations. The statistical
treatment contemplated two dimensional techniques of descriptive
statistical: mean and standard deviation. The evaluation showed
relation between life expectations and QOL. Death and dying
revealed through the lowest QOL the existence of a substantial
preoccupation in Brazil opposed to India. The same happened
with present past and future activities. Satisfaction with past
present and future raised the QOL level in India old aged opposed
to that in Brazil. In general the Indian aged QOL finding was
higher than that of Brazil’s low income old aged. This research
confirms the inference of social adjustment influencing hopes and
expectations in QOL. It also informs that Brazil’s old aged quality of life concerning death and dying plus future and present activities
are lower than India’s. As both samples are composed by low
income old aged the observed QOL was also low. It is suggested
that works directed to the aged take in consideration this
comparison of evaluation of quality of life by aged of two distinct
civilizations |
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| Physical Description: | p.66-78 Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009 |