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Quality of life in older age
— psychometric testing of the multidimensional Older People's Quality of Life (OPQOL) questionnaire and the causal model under-pinning it | | Author(s) | A Bowling, D Banister, P Stenner |
| Corporate Author | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme - NDA |
| Publisher | New Dynamics of Ageing - NDA, Sheffield, 2009 |
| Pages | 4 pp (NDA Findings 2) |
| Source | NDA Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Ethnic groups ; Questionnaires ; Cognitive processes ; Performance ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Increasing numbers of older people, higher expectations for a "good life", and demands for health and social care have led to international interest in the enhancement and measurement of quality of life (QoL) in old age. QoL is a subjective concept, yet most measures of QoL are based on "expert" opinions. This study aimed to test a new measure of older people's QoL (OPQOL), which is unique in being derived from the views of older people who responded to an earlier survey funded by the ESRC Growing Older Programme. These findings report the final testing of the OPQOL, and compare it with two existing measures of QoL in older age: the CASP-19 and WHOQOL-OLD. Perceptions of "active ageing" were also elicited from the more than 1000 survey respondents. The study was based on three national surveys of older people living at home in Britain: people aged 65+ responding to two waves of the Ethnibus Surveys (www.ethnibus.com) in 2008; people aged 65+ responding to two waves of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Omnibus Surveys ; and a postal follow-up survey in 2007/08 of ONS Omnibus Survey respondents aged 65+ in 1999-2000. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091112207 P |
| Classmark | F:59: TK: 3DA: DA: 5H: 4C * |
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