A Study on Activities of Daily Living and Influencing Factors in Nanjing City

This paper was from sampling survey of health status for elderly adults over 60 years old in Nanjing city. This article ex- amine ability of activities of daily living(ADL)and instrumen- tal activities of daily living (IADL). Results showed that the rate of lost for daily activities was increasing with aging and these were significant difference in sexes(X²=7. 75,P<005) The analysis of Logistic regressing showed that ability of daily activities living were affected by age,volume of chronic condi- tion,marriage,physical trainness,satisfaction of living.