Prevalence of Demographic Profiles and Loneliness among  Elderly Women in Private Care Institution

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Loneliness, demographic profiles, elderly women, private care institution.

Loneliness among elderly women living in nursing home based on demographic profile become a

phenomenon in many developed countries. In most research, loneliness has been identified as a negative

feeling that can lead to death. Loneliness among elderly women occur when they are 60 years and above

once their children grow up and married. Then, there retired from occupations and their spouse died and

make they live alone. Thus, this study aimed to identify the factors of demographic profiles have an impact

on loneliness among elderly women. This research was conducted at a private institution in Terengganu,

Malaysia with 78 elderly women as respondents quantitatively. The questionnaires from UCLA Loneliness

Scale were adopted to analyse the risk of elderly having loneliness in nursing home. The result showed the

factors of demographic profile have an impact on loneliness among elderly women in private institution its

strength and significant. As a conclusion, the study on loneliness among elderly women in nursing home is

important to raise awareness about this alarming issue in the society especially among elderly women.

Nurunsaadah S.1 , Lukman Z.M.2 , Zulaikha M.Z.1 , M.Y. Kamal1

1 Post Graduate Student, 2Prof, School of Social Work, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Sultan Zainal Abidin

University, Gong Badak Campus, Terengganu, Malaysia