The analysis healthy behavior among elderly people in Juczyńiski's Inventory of Healthy Behavior.

PURPOSE The aim of our research was the analysis healthy behavior in people, who continued their education in the third age group at Universities and elderly hospitalized patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group included students in the third age group at Universities and Senior Clubs and patients hospitalized in the Department and Clinic of Geriatrics, there were 87 women and 37 men, in total 124 people. The mean age of the evaluated people group was 67.6 years. The research was carried out by diagnostic poll method with the application of Juczyński's Inventory of Healthy Behavior (IoHB). RESULTS The studied people group showed a high level of health behavior, obtaining higher scores than standard for older people. This difference was statistically significant for all studied rates. In our study, the standardized rate was in general 6.50, including 6.39 for women and 6.76 for men. Such rate value of health behavior should be considered as average rather than high. CONCLUSIONS The older people in the present report have a high level of healthy behavior compared to the average for adult population.