Abstract

Background: Perception of the quality of life in elderly with chronic nonmaligant pain could differ in all dimensions. Special situation could be in people living in Residential homes. The goal of our study was to evaluate chocen areas from different dimensions of qualoty of life in elderly living in social care institutions in Czech republic.
Methods: The prospective study was based on participative observation and objective evaluation of elderly people with use WHOQOL 100 questionnaire, Yessavage score (Geriatric Depression Scale- GDS), Mini Mental State Examination (MSE test) and Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ test). The obtained data were analyse through the program SPSS (IBM Predictive Analysis Software) statistic version 19 using chi-square test, Kruskal Wallis test and Kendall Tau at the 5% significance level.
Results: The studied group involved 155 elderly people with chronic nonmalignant pain (121 women and 34 men). In the study was clearly identified impact of chronic nonmalignant pain on quality of life in selected areas of biological, psychological and social dimensions in elderly. It was found that the psychological condition influenced the perception of chronic nonmalignant pain in elderly people (seniors) living in Residential homes in relation to the quality of life as well as in physical condition and social dimension.
Conclusion: Objective evaluation should be made to recognize the impact of the nonmalignant pain on quality of life of elderly living in residential homes. It was also confirmed that it is necessary when health monitoring to match the subjective and objective assessments to achieve an adequate comprehensive evaluation.