المساندة الأسرية و علاقتها بجودة الحياة لدى المسنات في مدينة الرياض بالمملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

Family support is a concept that involves the protection that the elderly receive through their social relationships with their family members, as well as the people around them, and it is a factor that contributes to good quality of life.

This descriptive study aims to understand the level of family support that elderly women receive, its relationship to their quality of life, the differences of family support they receive, and the variation of the quality of life with regard to the difference in demographics, as well as to determine the relationship between family support and life quality for elderly women.

This is done by testing three hypotheses.

The first hypothesis states that there are statistical morale differences in relation to difference in family support demographics for elderly women.

The second hypothesis states that there are statistical morale differences in relation to difference in quality of life demographics for elderly women.

Lastly, the third hypothesis states that there is a directly proportional relationship between family support and good quality of life for elderly women.

The study was applied on a sample of 385 elderly women in Riyadh.

The results disagreed with the first hypothesis, which led to its rejection and acceptance of the Null Hypothesis, which states there are no statistical morale differences in the average values of study sample in difference in family support demographics for elderly women (age, monthly income, housing type, housing location, educational level).

The exception, however, is observed in terms of the place of upbringing, where the results favored those who were brought up on the countryside.

The results have also disagreed with the second hypothesis and accepted the Null Hypothesis in this case, which states that there are no statistical morale differences in relation to difference in quality of life demographics for elderly women, except for place of upbringing.

The results have, however, proved the third hypothesis to be correct where it was found that there was indeed a directly proportional relationship between family support and good quality of life for elderly women in Riyadh.

The study recommends that all family member engage more in family support and care for the elderly, especially with the current societal, economic and technical changes, to which this support would eventually lead to an increase in quality of life.