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Relation between quality of life and chronic illnesses in elderly living in residential homes
— a prospective study | | Author(s) | Pim Cuijpers, Paula van Lammeren, Bernadette Duzijn |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 11, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 445-454 |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Chronic illness ; Ill health ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Longitudinal surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was investigated in 211 inhabitants of five residential homes in the Netherlands and assessed again 1 year later. The following were examined: whether HRQL was related to the presence of specific medical illnesses; whether comorbidity resulted in poorer HRQL, independent of the types of illness; and whether HRQL remained stable over time (1 year). The authors found that the illnesses investigated contributed only little power to the prediction of HRQL, although some coefficients were significant. Comorbidity was also found to be a significant predictor of several aspects of HRQL, but did not contribute much power either. Several aspects of HRQL (bodily pain, health perceptions, and social functioning) remained stable over time, whereas other aspects (role functioning, activities of daily living - ADLs) deteriorated. There was a trend indicating that mental health improves over time. Improvement and deterioration on aspects of HRQL were relatively strongly related to the scores on these aspects 1 year earlier, but not to specific illnesses or comorbidity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000208212 A |
| Classmark | F:59: CI: CH: KX: KW: 3J: 76H |
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