الوعي بالأثاث التفاعلي و علاقته بجودة الرعاية الأسرية لعينة من المسنين

Abstract EN

The current research aimed to study the relationship between awareness of interactive furniture in its three dimensions (the dimension of information and knowledge about interactive furniture, the dimension of employing “practices about” interactive furniture, the dimension of attitudes towards interactive furniture) in a sample of the elderly and the quality of family care provided to them (social care- health care).

psychological care) studying the differences in awareness of interactive furniture among a sample of the elderly and the quality of family care according to the variables (place of residence-housing area-age-type of work-number of family members-educational level of the elderly-monthly income of the family), the research used the descriptive analytical approach .

the research sample included 214 elderly people in both urban and rural areas (Kafr el-Sheikh-Dakahlia) from different social and economic levels, and they were chosen in a deliberately pseudo-acceptable way, and the current research used the descriptive analytical method.

the most important results concluded that : there is a positive, statistically significant correlation at the 0.01 level between the total dimensions of awareness of interactive furniture as a whole and the social care axis, psychological care, and the total family care quality questionnaire as a whole, and there are statistically significant differences at the 0.001 level between the elderly and the elderly research sample in the questionnaire of awareness of interactive furniture as a whole for the benefit of males, and there are significant differences at the level of 0.05 in (the dimension of information and knowledge about interactive furniture, total awareness of interactive furniture) among the elderly research sample according to the educational level in favor of the elderly with a high educational level, there is no discrepancy statistically significant among the elderly, the research sample on the quality of family care with its three axes ,according to the area of residence .

therefore, specialists recommend the necessity of studying the economic aspect of interactive furniture and finding solutions to reduce the cost of its manufacture and work to spread awareness of interactive furniture and learn how to use it and benefit from it, with an emphasis on the need to find furniture that matches the Egyptian environment and identity.