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Quality of life among older people with poor functioning
— the influence of perceived control over life | | Author(s) | Ann Bowling, Sharon Seetai, Richard Morris |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 36, no 3, May 2007 |
| Pages | pp 310-315 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oupjournals.org |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Inactivity ; Physical capacity ; Adjustment ; Correlation. |
| Annotation | The apparently incongruous coupling of poor physical functioning with high quality of life (QoL) was investigated. A random sample of 999 people aged 65+ from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Omnibus Survey of Britain were interviewed in 2000 and 2001. 21% of respondents reported fairly to very severe levels of functional difficulty, and 62% of these rated their QoL as "good". Better self-rated health, lower burden of chronic disease, not having fallen, higher social engagement and higher levels of perceived control over life, distinguished between people who had difficulties with physical functioning and who perceived their QoL to be "good" rather than "not good". The open-ended survey responses broadly supported the quantitative findings. To conclude, people with difficulties with physical functioning, who perceived their QoL to be "not good", as opposed to "good", were adversely affected by a higher burden of disease and having fewer socio-psychological resources to help them to cope effectively. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070521220 A |
| Classmark | F:59: C4: CA: C5: BI: DR: 49 |
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