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"Not knowing where I am doesn't mean I don't know what I like"
— cognitive impairment and quality of life responses in elderly people | | Author(s) | Caroline Godlove Mozley, Peter Huxley, Caroline Sutcliffe |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 9, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 776-783 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Quality of life ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Evaluation ; North West England. |
| Annotation | 308 residents were interviewed within two weeks of admission to one of 30 residential or nursing homes in north-west England, to find out the extent to which they can answer questions about their quality of life. Participants were interviewed using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (Residential) (LQOLP(R)). 77.5% were found to be "interviewable", i.e. able to answer most of the questions in the LQOLP(R) and in doing so give answers in which the interviewer had confidence. Of seven cognitive domains measured by the MMSE, visual construction and registration were not significantly associated with interviewability. While orientation to time and recall were significantly associated with interviewability, many interviewable respondents had poor scores in these domains. No respondents were interviewable who scored less than 2 (out of 5) for orientation to place or less than 3 (out of 8) for language or less than 2 (out of 5) for attention. A high proportion of older people can answer questions about their quality of life, even in the presence of significant cognitive deficits. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000114210 A |
| Classmark | E4: F:59: KX: KW: LHB: 4C: 82NW |
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