Self-Care among Eldelry People in Pokhara Sub-metropolitian City.

      Аннотация: Self-care is activities people do for themselves to establish and maintain health, prevent and deal with illness. It is a broad concept encompassing Hygiene, Nutrition, Lifestyle, Environmental factors, Socioeconomic factors, Self-medication.Somehow the results shows the gender difference in selfcare as Female shows higher self-care ability than males.Hypertension and Diabetes have the higher prevalence in elderly people.This assessment provides sufficient information to assist with targeting individualized rehabilitation needs and plan for specific assist in home services in order to mainatin the quality of life.It also tends to help clinicians and policymakers to design and implement interventions that help elderly to live safely and independently. Furthermore, the finding could be taken as an indication for having basic and primary geriatric health care services including rehabilitation involving the family and community.

Ключевые слова: ADL, Elderly, non-communicable disease, Prevalence, self-care, IADL, Activities ofDaily living, Instrumental activities of Daily living