Space Mobility in Mexican American Aged 75 and Older

To be subjective and flexible is the key to maintaining an active living quality. There is a clear connection between health status and the quality of life of the elderly. When considering mobility, it is considered to focus on people's ability to perform everyday activities such as bathing, using toilets, and independent living activities everyday. This includes instrumental activities such as shopping and socializing with others.

• For women over the age of 75, it is more likely than men to need assistance for one or more activities in their daily lives, such as eating, bathing, changing clothes, walking at home. One woman in every nine is 75 years old and over, one in five is over 85 years old, and daily activities are required 5. It is easier to live alone. In other words, no one in the family is useful for daily activities. Almost half (48%) of women over the age of 75 are living alone, while less than a quarter of men (22%)

85% of Americans over the age of 18 have mobile phones and have become the most popular mobile phones ever to date among adults. Mobile phones are particularly popular among adults under 66 years old, but the largest are adults of the aged (over 75), of which 48% have cell phones. Looking further about the existence of mobile phones in the home, one-third (33%) of people without mobile phones live in a home with at least one mobile phone. Overall, 90% of adults (including 62% over 75) live in families with at least one work mobile phone.

Physical inactivity of the elderly increases with age and is most conspicuous in people over the age of 27. 26 In 2009, 33% of adults aged 45 to 64 years had no physical activity during the leisure It was. This percentage is 38% for people between the ages of 65 and 74 and 55% for those over 75 years of age. More than two-thirds of adults over 65 years old have not reported active leisure sports that lasted more than 10 minutes per week. Despite the prevalence of overweight / obesity and lack of physical activity, more than one-third of Americans over the age of 65 in 2009 say that health is good or very good. .

About 8% of Mexican Americans over the age of 20 are diabetic. Because Mexican Americans are younger than other groups, the age and sex-adjusted diabetes of Mexican Americans is twice that of non-Hispanic whites and is comparable to non-Hispanic blacks. In this study, researchers compared the two data. One was from 1988 to 1994 and the other was from 1999 to 2002. These data were obtained from national health and nutrition samples of adults over the age of 20 in the United States. Inspection study (NHANES) conducted by the Health Statistics Center of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Participants in the survey received an interview at home and received blood tests including glucose measurements taken after the night fast. NHANES is unique as it includes undiagnosed diabetes examination and IFG blood test.