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Day II: Wednesday, 4th August, 2021

Ageing and Population and Environment

483 Activities of Daily Living Dependency among the Elderly in Malaysia

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Nur Airena Aireen Azman , Lailina Khairuddin , Raudhatul Mahfuzah Shafiai , Nurhidayahbillah Muhammad
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Ghani , Nor Azah Samat
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1 National Population and Family Development Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sultan Idris Education University,
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Perak, Malaysia
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8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to determine the prevalence of activities of daily living (ADL) dependency among the
elderly in Malaysia and to identify the factors that are associated to ADL dependency. Data used for this study were
obtained from the Fifth Malaysian Population and Family Survey (MPFS-5), a nationally representative survey
conducted by the National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia in 2014. The total number of
sample size for this study is 3,905 elderly respondents aged 60 years and above. Descriptive analysis was conducted
for socio-demographic variables and ADL dependency. As a result, overall, 30.6 percent of the elderly are unable
to perform basic daily activity; feeding, bathing, grooming, dressing, bowel control, bladder control, toileting,
moving in and out of bed, walking and climbing stairs independently. The bivariate analysis showed that ADL
dependency is significantly related to gender, age group, marital status, educational level, work status, self-rated
health status and presence of health problems. Thus, with functional decline as person ages, it is essential to support
the ADL needs of the elderly as it is shown that some of them need support in order to complete all the activities
included in the study.

1339 The Relationship between Self-rated Health and Happiness among Indonesian
Older Persons

Evi Nurvidya Arifin

Centre for Advanced Research, Bandar Seri Bagawan, Brunei Darussalam

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8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing

Abstract

The relationship between happiness and health can be interdependent, whether happiness makes people happy,
or whether health makes people healthy. As in many other countries, Indonesia is facing ageing population with
different level of ageing across regions. However, little is known about the relationship between happiness and

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