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| Enhancing the quality of extended life years. Identification of the oldest old with a very good and very poor quality of life | | Author(s) | E Grundy, A Bowling |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 3, no 3, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 199-212 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Independence ; Health [elderly] ; Physical environment ; Octogenarians ; Attitude ; Hackney. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of life in very old age by analysing what proportion of older people had cumulative difficulties across several domains of quality of life, what proportion had no or few problems, and how these distributions changed over time. A structured interview survey of 630 people aged 85 years and over living in Hackney was conducted. Follow-up interviews took place 2.5-3 years after the baseline interviews. The main outcome measures were nine variables which were used to represent three major domains of quality of life: perceived well-being and autonomy, health and activity, and environment. Nearly 50% of respondents achieved `good' scores on at least five of the nine indicators of quality of life. The deterioration or increase in scores between the baseline and follow-up interviews was not substantial. The study confirms the great diversity of the older population, even in relatively homogeneous areas, and the need to adopt a multidimensional quality of life in older age. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991005204 A |
| Classmark | F:59: C3: CC: R: BBM: DP: 82LD |
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