Research advance in self-advocacy in elderly patients

Elderly patients have become the main focus of China's elderly care industry, and solving the various needs of elderly patients is currently a key issue in China's nursing industry and even the whole society. Improving the level of self-advocacy of elderly patients can enable them to independently collect disease-related information, obtain social support, and then take the initiative to carry out various medical treatment, cooperation and care, and effectively manage their own diseases. At present, there are many foreign studies on the self-advocacy of elderly patients and some progress has been made, but China is still in its infancy in this regard. Therefore, this article will review the influencing factors, evaluation tools and interventions of self-advocacy in elderly patients, in order to provide a basis for the development of self-advocacy in elderly patients.