Life Satisfaction Among Elderly Patients in Nepal: Associations with Nutritional and Mental Well-Being. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Authors

Saruna Ghimire, University of Nevada, NVFollow
Binaya Kurmar Baral, Research and Communication Nepal Development Society
Isha Karmacharya, Pokhara University, Lekhnath, Nepal
Karen E. Callahan, University of Nevada, NVFollow
Shiva Raj Mishra, Research and Communication Nepal Development SocietyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-7-2018

Publication Title

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Publisher

BMC

Volume

16

Issue

1

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

Nepal’s demography is aging rapidly, yet few studies to date have examined how this has affected the health and well-being of the elderly, defined as those above 60 years in Nepal’s Senior Citizen Act (2006). Our study, abbreviated NepEldQOLII, aims to assess perceived life satisfaction, and evaluate its relationship with nutritional health and mental well-being among the burgeoning Nepalese elderly population...(See full text for complete abstract)

Disciplines

Community Health

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pdf

File Size

694 KB

Language

English

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Repository Citation

Ghimire, S., Kurmar Baral, B., Karmacharya, I., Callahan, K. E., Mishra, S. (2018). Life Satisfaction Among Elderly Patients in Nepal: Associations with Nutritional and Mental Well-Being. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 16(1), 1-10. BMC.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12955-018-0947-2