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| Health, valuation of life, and the wish to live | | Author(s) | Miriam Moss, Christine Hoffman, Richard Grant |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 4, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 406-416 |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Longevity ; Health [elderly] ; Over 70s ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research has shown that a smaller number of years of better quality of life is more valuable than simply living longer for many older people. This research investigated the relationship of an affective-cognitive schema, valuation of life (VOL), to older people's responses to a set of health utility (years of desired life) questions. Six hundred healthy and chronically ill people aged 70 years and over were interviewed to measure quality of life (QOL), mental health and VOL. Valuation of life was significantly correlated with longer years of desired life under 8 of 10 health conditions when background, health, QOL, and mental health states were controlled. The study concluded that VOL is an internal representation of the many positive and negative features of the person and his or her everyday life that is necessary to comprehend how people may cling to life or welcome its end. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000118227 A |
| Classmark | F:59: BGA: CC: BBK: 7T |
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