由於人口結構快速老化，加上慢性疾病是影響老年人主要的健康問題，而生活型態是導致慢性病原因之一，追求健康和養生之道以保持或增進健康及減少疾病便成為各方關注的重點，本研究旨在探討健康生活型態與患有慢性疾病老年人健康狀態之相關性。
本文使用Kenkel (1995) 與Schoenborn（1986）的七種生活型態的指標（被稱作為Alameda 7）來做分析。由於自評健康狀態為等級變數，故採取離散選擇之Ordered Probit 模型分析，並以邊際效果（Marginal Effect）呈現各變數對自評健康狀態的影響。
本研究結果顯示，「運動（Exercise）」的養成和自評健康狀態的關係效果最為顯著，運動可為台灣慢性病老年人健康狀態帶來明顯的改善；其次影響健康狀態的生活型態因子為「生活規律與放鬆（Regular Life）」與「飲食清淡（Dietary）」。以邊際效果結果顯示，「運動（Exercise）」與「飲食清淡（Dietary）」分別為-0.43%、-0.46%。另外，本研究延伸納入「十三種疾病」做為控制變數，結果顯示，若高齡人口的慢性病病患中，病患本身有罹患骨質疏鬆症、關節炎，心臟病、白內障，癌症，將與自身健康狀態呈現顯著的正相關性，換言之，在隔一年度的自評健康狀態中，病患在健康狀態滿意度自我評量衡量數值會提高，滿意程度較低。

Due to the rapid aging of the population, along with the chronic disease is a major health problem affecting the elderly, to maintain or improve health status and reduce diseases becomes the focus of public attention. Previous literature had mentioned that if individuals had already suffered from chronic cases, the effective way to control or maintain the status of chronic diseases and health is by changing the unhealthy lifestyles. Therefore, we will focus on discussing this issue by examining the relationship between lifestyle changes and self-assessment of health status of the elderly population who has hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia.
Following Kenkel (1995) and Schoenborn (1986), we construct lifestyle changes indexes such as diet lightly, reducing smoking and/or drinking, exercise, weight control to conduct the analysis by utilizing the ordered probit model. The results of the study show that developing a regular exercise habit can bring significant improvements for the health status of the elderly in Taiwan. Other indexes that are significant to improvements for the health status are regular life and healthy dietary habit. Therefore, the results of this study may provide an effective reference for policymaker, health professional, elderly, and all other individuals.

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