Psycho-educational program for enhancing quality of life for elderly at geriatric home

Abstract EN

Aging is unavoidable developmental facts that bring along several changes in the physical, psychological, hormonal, and social status.

Most of these changes are expected to affect the quality of life of the elderly.

Aim: is to evaluate the effect of the psycho-educational program for enhancing the quality of life for the elderly at a geriatric home.

Methods: a quasi experimental research design was performed on a convenient sample consisted of 20 elderlies at Elhlal Elahmer and Noor Wel Amal geriatric homes that are located in Beni-Suef governorate, Egypt.

Tools: Data were collected using Socio-demographic Questionnaire, Facts on Aging Quiz, and The Older People’s Quality of Life Questionnaire.

Results: The results of this study showed that there is a higher improvement in the level of knowledge post-program than preprogram from less than fifth to majority of studied elderly and in follow up to two thirds of them have sufficient knowledge and there is a higher improvement in the level of quality of life post-program than preprogram from one third to majority of studied elderly and in follow up to two thirds of them have higher quality of life.

Also, there is a highly significant relationship between total quality of life and total knowledge (p