Quality of life assessment in patients with dementia |
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Authors: | Crespo López María Hornillos Jerez Carlos Bernaldo De Quirós Aragón Mónica Gómez Gutiérrez M Mar |
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Affiliation: | Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espa?a. mcrespo@psi.ucm.es |
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Abstract: | Quality of life (QoL) is one of the most important outcome variables in the study of the efficacy of interventions with people with dementia. However, its assessment is difficult 1) because it is a complex construct for which there is no unified theoretical or conceptual approach, and 2) because of the inherent difficulties in the cognitive impairments of the people under study. In this work different methods and instruments to this end are reviewed, and related findings are discussed. It is important to take into account the subjective view of the assessed person, as assessments done by proxies tend to underestimate QoL. In spite of the need for further development in this field, it is concluded that the instrument of choice is the QOL-AD, as it is change-sensitive, it correlates with health measurements, it is translated into several languages and it can be administered to people with low MMSE scores. |
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