Factors that influence eldery to age in place in Sabah
This research was carried out to study the factors that influence elderly to age in place in Sabah. Four factors had been tested which are social support, environmental factors, housing features and physical and mental health. This study applied a quantitative research method. The target population...
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| Format: | Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis |
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2024
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6545/1/UKMZ3036_FYPReport_Elise_Lim_Wei_Xin.pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6545/ |
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| Summary: | This research was carried out to study the factors that influence elderly to age in place in Sabah. Four factors had been tested which are social support, environmental factors, housing features and physical and mental health. This study applied a quantitative research method. The target population of this research is those who aged above 60, residing in Sabah state. Primary data of this research was obtained through the distribution of 100 copies of
questionnaires and was analyzed using the SPSS software.
The constructs of the questionnaire were reliable as Cronbach's Alpha value of all the factors was above 0.8. The data analysis applied for this research is the relative importance index, the four factors were ranked from most important to least important and the ranking is as follows
housing features, social support, environmental factors, physical and mental health. |
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