| 1 – Housing conditions conducive to accidents: |
| •33.0% of older adults have a bathroom far from the bedroom; 63.0% do not have safety devices in the bathroom; 67.0% use stairs to access their house; 57.0% use stairs daily inside the house; in 20.0% of the cases the stairs had no handrail. 42.0% have slippery floors at home; 32.0% have no carpet anti-slip grip; 84.0% have heaters inside the house. |
| 2 – Low social interaction: |
| •57.0% of older adults prefer staying home to going out and socializing; individual recreational activities are predominant, and for 75.0% the most frequent is watching TV/listening to music. |
| 3 – Feeling of loneliness: |
| •23.0% Report feeling alone. |
| 4 – Decrease in the level of self-esteem and perception of happiness: |
| •32.0% report not feeling happy most of the time. |
| •There is a trend for self-esteem to diminish with age. |
| 5 – Lack of motivation to engage in intervention/social support activities: |
| •84.0% do not volunteer work and of those, 77.0% do not wish to. |
| •26.1% do not know the purposes/projects of the parish’s institutions. |
| 6 – Lack of motivation to engage in activities for personal development and future projects: |
| •84.0% do not volunteer and of those, 77.0% do not wish to. |
| •88.0% do not study nor want to. |
| •34.0% report having no life project. |
| 7 – Feeling insecure: |
| •22.0% of older adults do not feel safe in their area of residence. |
| 8 – Inadequate attitude towards being a potential victim of violence. |
| •12.1% would not tell anyone if they were a victim of violence. |
| 9 – Lack of regular physical activity: |
| •57.6% do not do any physical activity. |
| 10 – Inadequate eating habits: |
| •53.0% of older adults have an unbalanced diet at dinner. |
| •46.0% of older adults have only 3 meals a day. |
| •75.0% have a low water intake. |
| 11 – Cohabitation with smokers: |
| •23.6% of older adults live with people who smoke. |
| 12 – Lack of family doctor: |
| •45.0% of older adults do not have a family doctor. |
| 13 – Non-adherence to medicine regimen: |
| •50.6% of older adults forget to take routine medication. |
| 14 – Non-adherence to officially recommended influenza vaccination schedule: |
| •68.4% did not take the flu vaccine for the period. |
| 15 – Lack of oral health care: |
| •96.0% of older adults have lost teeth. |
| •67.3% do not go to the dentist. |
| 16 – Decreased self-perceived visual and auditory acuity: |
| •45.0% of older adults have vision problems. |
| •29.0% have hearing problems. |
| 17 – Self-perceived overweight condition: |
| •46.0% reported being overweight. |
| 18 – Existence of diagnosed chronic diseases: |
| •92.0% of older adults present chronic pathology (48.0% rheumatic disease, 47.0% cerebrovascular disease, 33.0% diabetes). |
| 19 – Occurrence of falls and fear of falling: |
| •24.0% of older adults reported having suffered a fall in the previous semester. |
