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What do we know about quality of life in dementia?
— a review of the emerging evidence on the predictive and explanatory value of disease specific measures of health related quality of life in people with dementia | | Author(s) | Sube Banerjee, Kritika Samsi, Charles D Petrie |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 24, no 1, January 2009 |
| Pages | pp 15-24 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | A systematic review of papers in English published up to October 2007 brings together current data on the distribution, determinants and course of health related quality of life (HRQoL) in dementia to investigate the predictive and explanatory value of measures of HRQoL in people with dementia. There are no clear of consistent associations between socio-demographic variables on HRQoL. There is no convincing evidence that lower cognition or greater activity limitation is associated with lower HRQoL. There is a strong suggestion that depression is consistently associated with decreased HRQoL in dementia. However, the magnitude of the association observed is moderate only, and the proportion of variance explained is low, suggesting that depression and HRQoL are different constructs. Currently, almost nothing is known about the natural history of HRQoL in dementia or what attributes or interventions promote or inhibit HRQoL for people with dementia. While in other illnesses there may be single associations between HRQoL and an easily measurable clinical variable, in dementia this is not so. There are now instruments available with which to measure disease-specific HRQoL directly in clinical trials and other studies that can yield informative data. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090121202 A |
| Classmark | EA: CC: F:59: 64A |
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