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| Quality of life and deficit identification in dementia | | Author(s) | Kathleen A Smyth, Marcia M Neundorfer, Elisabeth Koss |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 1, no 3, October 2002 |
| Pages | pp 345-358 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Quality of life ; Informal care ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Few of the studies of self-identification of deficits in people with dementia have considered the influence of interpersonal and social factors; rather, most focus on whether or why deficits are "under-reported" by people with dementia. In their studies, the authors have found considerable variation in deficit identification within and among those with dementia, and some "over-reporting" of deficits as compared with caregiver reports across all of the domains studied. Thus, focusing on "under-reporting" and aggregate level data neglects information that could be important to measuring and understanding quality of life in dementia. Current approaches to measuring and understanding quality of life in dementia make divergent assumptions about impact of deficit identification. Emerging phenomenological perspectives suggest that proactive interventions that treat deficit identification as an interpersonal and social challenge inherent in the experience of dementia would enhance the quality of life of caregiving dyads. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021217208 A |
| Classmark | EA: E4: F:59: P6: 7T |
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