Anía Lafuente B J, Suárez Almenara J L, Guerra Hernández L, Santana Santana A J, Acosta Morales C D, Saavedra Rodríguez J M
Hospital Nuestra Señora del Pino, Las Palmas G.C.
Rev Esp Salud Publica. 1997 Mar-Apr;71(2):161-71.
Among the elderly, health is usually measured in terms of ability for both the Basic and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living. The objective of this work is to estimate the percentage of healthy elderly among the population of the Canary Islands (Spain) and the factors associated with functional disability in this older population.
We randomly sampled 411 elderly from the whole population of the Canary Islands, of whom 97 had died or could not be located. Of the 314 people approached, 29 (9.2%) denied participation. The 285 participants were interviewed with the Spanish version of Pfeiffer's Functional Assessment Inventory previously adapted and validated in our habitat.
Up to 53% of the elderly (61% of males and 47% of females) were disability-free. Greater disability was associated with higher age, lesser education, worse subjective health, worse subjective vision, and worse subjective hearing. No association of disability with female gender and cognitive deficit was found when including age and education in the logistic model.
Health status among the elderly in the Canaries is similar to that in developed countries. In contrast with other studies, we found functional ability associated with poor hearing and dissociated from cognitive deficit.
在老年人中，健康通常根据基本日常生活活动能力和工具性日常生活活动能力来衡量。本研究的目的是估计加那利群岛（西班牙）人口中健康老年人的比例以及该老年人群中与功能残疾相关的因素。
我们从加那利群岛的全体人口中随机抽取了411名老年人，其中97人已死亡或无法找到。在接触的314人中，29人（9.2%）拒绝参与。对285名参与者使用先前在我们的研究环境中改编并验证的西班牙文版Pfeiffer功能评估量表进行了访谈。
高达53%的老年人（男性为61%，女性为47%）没有残疾。残疾程度越高与年龄越大、教育程度越低、主观健康状况越差、主观视力越差和主观听力越差相关。在逻辑模型中纳入年龄和教育因素后，未发现残疾与女性性别和认知缺陷有关。
加那利群岛老年人的健康状况与发达国家相似。与其他研究不同的是，我们发现功能能力与听力差有关，且与认知缺陷无关。
