Elderly Health Journal 2015; 1(2): 52-61. Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Journal Website : http://ehj.ssu.ac.ir Review Article * Corresponding Author: Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Tel: +989141008927, Email address: hm1349@gmail.com Healthy Lifestyle Status among Non- Institutionalized Older People: A Literature Review Mahin Alineghad 1 , Hossein Matlabi* 1 , Akbar Azizi Zeinalhajlou 2 1. Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2. Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran A B S T R A C T Article history Received 12 Sep 2015 Accepted 27 Oct 2015 Introduction: Advances in medical and health sciences have led to increase in the number of older people. The most common non- communicable diseases can be prevented by following a healthy lifestyle. This study aimed to investigate the lifestyle of elderly people by reviewing the literatures and background of the previous researches in order to obtain a holistic view about lifestyle. Methods: A fast literature review was conducted applying retrospective approach to identify the status of lifestyle among older people. For this purpose, the related references with keywords involving 'lifestyle', 'elderly people', 'aging', and 'multiple chronic conditions' were electronically searched in databases „All Academic‟, „ISI web of knowledge‟, „PsycNET‟, „Social Sciences Citation Index‟, and „PubMed‟ from 2002 to 2015. Results: 26 related articles were finalised and reviewed according to the study aims. The results showed that those people with an inappropriate lifestyle were more likely to die because of health difficulty reasons. Improving healthy lifestyle including dietary habits, weight control, physical activity, smoking cessation, managing stressful life events, and social capital were closely related with reduced risk of all-cause mortality. Conclusion: It seems that the awareness about the relationship between healthy lifestyle and incidence of multiple chronic conditions among older people may be effective in understanding of the potential health consequences of their performance, and also in modifying lifestyle. Keywords: Healthy Lifestyle, Older people, Non- Institutionalised Citation: Alineghad M, Matlabi H, Azizi Zeinalhajlou A. Healthy lifestyle status among non- institutionalized older people: a literature review. Elderly Health Journal. 2015; 1(2): 52-61. Introduction Development in health sciences and medicine has improved health and economic level of societies, which lead to increase in life expectancy and the growth of the elderly population (1). Aging is one of the phenomena involved in global health (2). Reports show that Asian developing countries are aging faster than other countries (3). According to the census in 2011, 8.2 per cent of Iranian population aged over 60 years, and it is expected to reach to more than 10% in 2025 (4). With regard to the growing status of elderly population and declining physical and mental abilities and higher frequency of chronic diseases in the elderly people, paying attention to the issues and needs of this age phase is necessary (2). Furthermore, increasing elderly population emerges some needs, outcomes and new problems in different societies and different Downloaded from ehj.ssu.ac.ir at 13:35 +0330 on Friday December 10th 2021