Iranian Journal of

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Background: Improved in health condition, reduced fertility rates, and increased life expectancy has increased number and proportion of elderly population. This study was reported the health status of older population in North Khorasan province.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that enrolled 99 subjects (40 men and 59 women) ≥ 60 years by a multi-levels proportionate cluster random sampling method.
Required information was gathered by means of a demographic questionnaire. Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), Geriatric Depression Scale-15 (GDS-15), Katz's basic activity of daily living, and Lawton's instrumental activity of daily living were administered. Measurements of anthropometric and blood pressure were performed based on standard methods
Results: The prevalence of diabetes and hypertension in elderly, were 17.7% and 57.6%, respectively. Depressed mood was observed in 36.4% of the participants 36.4% of the participants and 18.2 percent of them reported that their health condition was bad. In addition, 73.5% of the elderly had complained about any bodily pain. As well as, 22.6% of the participants used opium at least once during the last year.
Conclusion: It seems that the health status of the elderly in North Khorasan province is not suitable in many indicators, such as hypertension, malnutrition, drug abuse and complaints of pain and their health status was worse than the national average of Iran. A special attention requires to the health status of elderly in this province .

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Background: Alborz Province is one of the provinces that accepted immigrants. Immigration has a profound effect on physical and mental health in elderly. This study was performed to assess the health status of Alborz province older population.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 235 subjects were enrolled (113 men and 122 women) aged ≥ 60 years using multi-level proportionated cluster random sampling that selected from 19 cities of this province. Data was collected by a demographic questionnaire, measuring anthropometric characteristics, and blood pressure and using "Mini Nutritional Assessment", ”Geriatric Depression Scale-15 ", “Katz’s Activity of daily living”, and "Lawton’s Instrumental activities of daily living”. Data was analyzed with spss21.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 68(6.00) years.  The prevalence of anxiety and depression among the participants was as 51.5% and 34%, respectively. At risk or malnutrition was observed in 27% of the participants and 54.5% had suffered dental problems and 49.8% also had problem in walking.
Conclusion: Overall, the health status of elderly people in the Alborz, perhaps slightly better than the national average, but the high prevalence of metabolic disorders also the high prevalence of depression and anxiety require serious intervention by policy makers to promote the health in elderly.