Balode, AijaStolarova, AndaVillerusa, AnitaVetra, JanisBerķis, UldisVilka, Lolita2021-06-072021-06-072018Balode, A, Stolarova, A, Villerusa, A & Vetra, J 2018, Well-being and functional abilities in nursing home and home living seniors in Latvia. in U Berķis & L Vilka (eds), SHS Web of Conferences : 6th International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference SOCIETY. HEALTH. WELFARE (Part II). vol. 51, 02002, SHS Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, 6th International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference "Society. Health. Welfare", Riga, Latvia, 23/11/16. https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20185102002conference978-2-7598-9059-02261-2424https://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/4749The society in developed countries is aging. 1.5% of seniors live in nursing homes in Latvia. Aim: to compare functional abilities and wellbeing between nursing home and home living Latvian seniors. Methods: 280 home living seniors and 285 from nursing homes, age ≥ 65 years able to respond to questions and stand up were included in the study based on availability. They were asked to describe their well-being from very bad to very good. The functional abilities were assessed by hand grip strength, the ability to stand up without assistance, the dependence on caregivers (1 – independent, 2 – partly dependent, 3 – fully dependent), the use of walking device assistance devices. Results: The home living seniors could stand up without assistance of hands more often than nursing home residents (60.4% vs. 38.2%, p < 0.001). The handgrip strength was higher in the elderly community-dwelling women (0.3 (0.2–0.3) vs. 0.2 (0.15–0.2) Ba), p < 0.001. The nursing home residents were less often independent (62.8% vs. 83.9%, p < 0.001), more often partly dependent (30.2% vs. 14.6%, p < 0.001) and independent (7.0% vs. 1.4%, p = 0, 001) while performing activities of daily living. The nursing home residents had higher walking device assistance needs (mean rank 345.7 vs. 219.2, p < 0.001) and described their well-being as “good” more often (28.4% vs. 16.8%, p = 0.001) and less often as “bad” or “very bad” (18.9% vs. 26.8%, p = 0.048). Conclusion. The subjective well-being of elderly nurse home residents is better than of home living seniors despite having less functional abilities.12255571enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesswell-beingfunctional abilitieselderlyhand grip strengthnursing home residents3.3 Health sciences3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontobookanthology/conference10.1051/shsconf/20185102002