SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

This chapter presents the summary, conclusion and recommendation. It

generalized the whole study and presented the decision on accepting the hypothesis.

Summary

The study was conducted from September 2012 until February 2013, in all
barangays of Trece Martirez City, Cavite. The respondents belong to the senior citizens
age group.
Primarily it aimed to identify significant relationship of the impact of retirement
to health maintenance and quality of life. The study dealt with health maintenance and
quality of life before and after retirement. Specifically it aimed to determine if there is
significant relationship among the retired senior citizens health maintenance and quality
of life before to after retirement.
The researchers utilized a descriptive-correlational methodological design. The
total population were given by the National Statistics Office, whereas the sample size was
derived using the Slovins Formula. It revealed a total of 387, which is selected randomly
in all barangays of Trece Martirez City, Cavite.

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In accordance to the objectives, the researchers determined the demographic

profile of the respondents. The respondents age was above 65 years old. Most of the
respondents are female about 58%. Majority of the respondents were dependent to their
children for income sources. While the most chronic health problem faced by the senior
citizen are the problem brought about by the top three morbidity of this sample. It is as
follows: Diabetes, Hypertension and depression.
Majority of the respondents has poor health maintenance. It was very alarming
that these findings arose.
On the other hand, in terms of quality of life, they had poorly sustained the quality
of their life. It was just justifiable that health is the main precursor of quality of life.
On both variables, there was a significant difference on health maintenance and
quality of life before and after retirement. There was an impact of retirement to both
dependent variables.

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Conclusion

In the demographic data, most of the respondents were females which made up
almost 58 % of the sample size.

The research also revealed that most of the senior

citizens were dependent with their family, primarily in their children, in terms of getting
their basic needs; senior citizens were more likely to develop Diabetes. While it was very
alarming that cases like depression, impaired hearing and problems in digestion which
people might think was less priority might increase as time goes by.
They had very poor health maintenance before and after retirement, though;
majority of them thrives harder to improve their health status. They modify their health
maintenance after retirement.
Before retirement, the quality of life among the respondents was satisfactory,
though, it progressed a little after retirement.
In both variables, the researchers decided to accept the hypothesis. It states that
after the investigation and gathering necessary data, the researchers found that there is a
significant difference on health maintenance and quality of life among Senior Citizen of
Trece Martirez City, Cavite before and after retirement.

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Recommendations
The findings were very alarmed the researchers, with this reason, the researchers
would like to recommend the following:
1. The senior citizen must be able to know the importance of routinely check-ups,
most importantly those who had chronic illnesses and must be educated on what
attitudes and lifestyle practices must be modified.
2. The senior citizen must be able to cope with retirement.
3. The students will be able to support the elders in this life transition.
4. Parents near the retirement phase must understand the necessary preparations they
must do in order to cope with the transition.
5. The Local Government Unit must be aware of the following findings and must
plan necessary actions to support the Senior Citizens.
6. Future researchers may explore on how the findings on health maintenance and
quality of life increases life expectancy, morbidity and mortality among the aged
group.

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