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Quality of life in older Belgian people
— comparison between people with dementia, mild cognitive impairment and controls | | Author(s) | Pierre Missotten, Gilles Squelard, Michel Ylieff |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 11, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp 1103-1109 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Memory disorders ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; Comparison ; Belgium. |
| Annotation | The sensitivity of the Alzheimer's Disease Related Quality of Life Instrument (ADRQL) is assessed, as applied to 357 people with dementia, 36 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 72 controls in Belgium. Each subject was evaluated with the ADRQL, the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), the cognitive scale of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly (CAMCOG), the Katz's ADL classification, the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), the Behaviour Rating Scale for Dementia (CERAD/BRSD), and the Clinical Dementia Rating Modified (CDR-M). The ADRQL showed that quality of life in the dementia group (65.77 ±17.04) was significantly inferior to that of the MCI (62.11 ±13.31) and control groups (79.75 ±79.75). There were no significant differences between the MCI and control groups. Within the dementia group, the five ADRQL subscale results were similar to those reported in other studies. ADRQL scores correlated significantly with the other measures. The ADRQL instrument is sufficiently sensitive for evaluating the QoL of people with dementia. Longitudinal studies are needed to specifically examine the rate of QoL evolution throughout the entire dementia process. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090109201 A |
| Classmark | EA: E4: EH: F:59: 4C: 48: 76E |
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