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| What is the quality of life in the oldest old? | | Author(s) | Maria I Lapid, Teresa A Rummans, Bradley F Boeve |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 23, no 6, August 2011 |
| Pages | pp 1003-1010 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Nonagenarians ; Cognitive processes ; Depression. |
| Annotation | The study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-perceived and caregiver-perceived quality of life (QOL), cognitive functioning, and depressive symptoms in the oldest old. Participants were 144 community dwellers aged 90-99 years. Collected data included neurological evaluation, DSM III-R criteria for dementia, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Dementia Rating Scale (DRS), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Record of Independent Living (ROIL), and QOL assessment using the Linear Analogue Self Assessment (LASA). Of the 144 subjects, 56 had normal cognitive functioning,13 had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 41 had dementia, and 34 had dementia with stroke and parkinsonism (DEMSP); all were analysed over a three-year period. Mean ages ranged from 93 to 94 years, and the majority were female with at least high school education. Overall functional ability was higher in groups without dementia. All subjects reported high overall QOL, regardless of cognitive functioning. However, caregivers perceived the subjects' overall QOL to be lower with increasing severity of cognitive impairment. Lower GDS scores correlated with higher self-perceived overall QOL. Overall there was a fairly high level of QOL, whether or not cognitive impairment existed. Individuals perceived their QOL better than did caregivers, and the difference in subjects' and caregivers' perception was more pronounced for the groups with dementia. QOL was more strongly correlated with depressive symptoms than with dementia severity. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110913013 A |
| Classmark | F:59: BBR: DA: ENR |
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