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Quality of life: measures and meanings in social care research
- Author:
- BOWLING Ann
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 27
- Place of publication:
- London
This review provides an overview of the measurement of quality of life (QoL) in social care, or social care-related QoL. Because the field is wide, this overview focuses on older people. Outcome can be complex to measure in social care, because several types of outcomes of both the user and any family carers may be relevant; these may also be affected by multiple factors. Measuring quality of life is one of several components for assessing the effectiveness of interventions. Maintaining people’s broader quality of life is also a potentially important outcome to consider ensuring that the person can ‘live well’ and that their care and support up until their death meets their needs. In reflection of the wider goals and provision of social care, compared to health care, client-based outcome measures need to be more multidimensional than narrower health-related or disease- related QoL measures reflecting the impact of circumstances and interventions on users’ wider lives. However, given overall lack of agreement on concepts or measures of social care and QoL outcomes, investigators have tended to use separate measures of social involvement and/or life satisfaction as indicators of QoL as well as measures of morale, health status, anxiety/depression, physical functioning, and needs. There has been a heavy emphasis on health status, physical and mental functioning. There are also several technical issues to consider when choosing and administering a measure of QoL. These are described but are not intended to be daunting to the researcher. Few measures satisfy all psychometric criteria perfectly. This overview is intended to be an informative summary of the main steps involved in selecting and testing a measurement scale. (Edited publisher abstract)
Living well into old age: three studies of health and well-being among older people in East London and Essex
- Authors:
- BOWLING Ann, GRUNDY Emily, FARQUHAR Morag
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 64p.,tables,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report exploring the concept of 'successful ageing' and summarising the results of research conducted over a three year period with older people in Hackney and Braintree in Essex. Documents and analyses changes in physical and mental health, the ability to perform the tasks of daily living, and the use of social services and offers new evidence of the problems of old age, and the factors which can contribute to well-being.
Ageing well: quality of life in old age
- Author:
- BOWLING Ann
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 273p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This book explores concepts of quality of life in older age in the theoretical literature and presents the views of a national sample of people aged sixty- five years or older. It offers a broad overview of the quality of life experienced by older people in Britain using a number of wide ranging indicators, including: health hobbies and interests; home and neighbourhood; income independence; psychological wellbeing; and social and family relationships.
Measuring disease: a review of disease-specific quality of life measurement scales
- Author:
- BOWLING Ann
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 415p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
- Edition:
- 2nd.
In assessing the outcome of disease and treatments, measurement scales must be relevant to their specific effects, necessitating the use of disease-specific questionnaires rather than more generic measures. This book reviews disease-specific measure of quality of life and, where relevant popularly used symptom and single dimension scales. Disease covered include: cancers, psychiatric and psychological conditions, respiratory diseases, neurological conditions, rheumatological conditions, cardiovascular diseases, HIV/AIDS, and others.