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- Title
Assessing quality-of-life in older people in care homes.
- Authors
Hall, Sue; Opio, Diana; Dodd, Rachael H.; Higginson, Irene J.
- Abstract
Background: many measures of Quality-of-Life (QoL) may not be suitable for older people in care homes, and do not cover the most relevant domains for individuals.Objective: to describe QoL of older people living in care homes using the SEIQoL-DW and the two 10-point rating scales, and to describe how people were using these measures.Design: we used quantitative methods to describe QoL, and qualitative methods to explore residents’ experiences of completing the measures.Setting: three care homes in the United Kingdom.Sample: twenty residents.Methods: residents completed the measures in interviews. We report descriptive statistics for QoL, the most important QoL domains for residents, completion rates and experiences of administering the instruments.Results: the most important QoL domains identified in the SEIQoL-DW were leisure activities; family; relationships; social life; independence and peace and contentment. Physical limitations and difficulty in understanding the instructions and concepts made completing it a challenge. The SEIQoL index was strongly correlated with a single 10-point rating of current QoL (rho = 0.67, P = 0.007).Conclusions: to fully understand residents’ QoL, detailed interview-based instruments, administered by an experienced interviewer are needed. To measure current QoL, for example, as an outcome measure, a simple single rating scale may suffice.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; QUALITY of life; ANALYSIS of variance; STATISTICAL correlation; DECISION making; INTERVIEWING; LEISURE; RESEARCH methodology; NURSING home patients; LEGAL status of patients; RESEARCH funding; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL skills; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; FAMILY relations; COMMUNICATION barriers; RESEARCH methodology evaluation
- Publication
Age & Ageing, 2011, Vol 40, Issue 4, p507
- ISSN
0002-0729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ageing/afr027