Utilize the ICOPE Scale to Analyze the Difference Effectiveness of Preventing Frailty Program for Elder between Urban and Rural Regions

Abstract

Taiwan will become super-aged society in 2025, and the average life expectancy is 79.84 years (it’s higher than the average life expectancy of 6.54years) in 2021. It shows the elders have positive cognition of prevent and delay frailty by themselves in their living motivation in Taiwan. On the other hand, it might be the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) promoted “the program of prevent and delay disability/ dementia” from 2017 until now. This program subsidy by the MOHW, one program 3 months a cycle, once a week for 2hours, and implement the ICOPE for pre-testing and post-testing to find out the different effectiveness in 6 domains (including Cognitive Decline, Limited Mobility, Malnutrition, Visual impairment, Hearing loss, Depressive symptoms). This research aims to 151 elder each living in urban and rural areas who participated in the same health promotion program for a cycle in target county. And use the experimental method to examine the impact of the difference in ICOPE pre-test and post-test results on the cognition of happiness between these two areas. Finally, it utilizes the research finding to improve or enhance the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of program participation.