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Health Behavior and Health Care for Old Adults

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 3880

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ana Plácido

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Health Sciences School, Polytechnic of Guarda, Rua da Cadeia, 6300-035 Guarda, Portugal
Interests: aging; health behavior; medicines; frailty

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to explore different initiatives that aim to promote the health behavior of older adults through the empowerment of (1) older adults and (2) health professionals; (3) the development of healthcare tools to promote older adults’ management in specific situations, such as polymedicated individuals; (4) the best practices to promote for the safe prescription and use of medicines; (5) an economic impact analysis associated with promoting the health of older adults. In particular, innovative studies that use geriatric approaches with different health stakeholders and different models to promote health of older adults by improving health practices, will be focused on. Other types of manuscripts of interest include relevant topical papers, meta-analyses, reviews, short reports and comments.

Dr. Ana Plácido
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • older adults
  • heath care systems
  • empowerment
  • healthcare stakeholders wellbeing
  • frailty
  • polypharmacy
  • aging
  • multidisciplinary approaches
  • economic impact
  • health behaviors

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Evolutionary Game Analysis of Behavior Strategies of Multiple Stakeholders in an Elderly Care Service System
by Zhiyong Zhang, Xiaodie Song and Yongqiang Shi
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 4263; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054263 - 27 Feb 2023
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As the aging of Chinese society continues to deepen, it is particularly important for the development of the national elderly care service industry to further strengthen the government’s supervision of private pension institutions and improve their management awareness of standardized operations. The strategic [...] Read more.
As the aging of Chinese society continues to deepen, it is particularly important for the development of the national elderly care service industry to further strengthen the government’s supervision of private pension institutions and improve their management awareness of standardized operations. The strategic behaviors among the participants of senior care service regulation have not been well studied yet. In the process of senior care service regulation, there is a certain game association among three stakeholders, namely, government departments, private pension institutions, and the elderly. This paper firstly constructs an evolutionary game model including the above three subjects and analyzes the evolutionary path of strategic behaviors of each subject and the evolutionary stabilization strategy of the system. On this basis, the feasibility of the evolutionary stabilization strategy of the system is further verified through simulation experiments, and the effects of different initial conditions and key parameters on the evolutionary process and results are discussed. The research results show that (1) There are four ESSs in the pension service supervision system, and revenue is the decisive factor that affects the evolution of the stakeholders’ strategy. (2) The final evolution result of the system is not necessarily related to the initial strategy value of each agent, but the size of the initial strategy value will affect the rate of each agent’s evolution to a stable state. (3) The increase in the success rate of government regulation, subsidy coefficient and punishment coefficient, or the reduction in the cost of regulation and the fixed subsidy for the elderly can effectively promote the standardized operation of private pension institutions, but the large additional benefits will lead to their tendency to operate in violation of regulations. The research results can provide reference and a basis for government departments to formulate the regulation policy for elderly care institutions. Full article
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Unmet Healthcare Needs Predict Depression Symptoms among Older Adults
by Jonas Eimontas, Goda Gegieckaitė, Olga Zamalijeva and Vilmantė Pakalniškienė
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(15), 8892; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19158892 - 22 Jul 2022
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Risk factors for depression in older adults include significant interpersonal losses, increasing social isolation, and deteriorating physical abilities and health that require healthcare. The effects of unmet healthcare needs on depression in older adults are understudied. This study aimed to analyze the association [...] Read more.
Risk factors for depression in older adults include significant interpersonal losses, increasing social isolation, and deteriorating physical abilities and health that require healthcare. The effects of unmet healthcare needs on depression in older adults are understudied. This study aimed to analyze the association between unmet healthcare needs and symptoms of depression, sleep, and antidepressant medication while controlling for other significant factors among older adults. For this study, we used a multinational database from The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), containing data of individuals aged 50 and older. The final sample used in this research consisted of 39,484 individuals from 50 to 100 years (mean − 71.15, SD ± 9.19), 42.0 percent of whom were male. Three path models exploring relationships between symptoms of depression at an older age and unmet healthcare needs were produced and had a good model fit. We found that unmet healthcare needs were directly related to depression, activity limitations were related to depression directly and through unmet healthcare needs, whereas financial situation mostly indirectly through unmet healthcare needs. We discuss how depression itself could increase unmet healthcare needs. Full article
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