caa a22 4500 475847334 CHVBK 20180406123918.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008959925664 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008959925664 How well do elderly people complete individualised quality of life measures: An exploratory study [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Dempster, Michael Donnelly] This research note describes and discusses a study which investigated the feasibility of using an individualised approach to measure the quality of life (QoL) of a sample of older people who were in receipt of an early hospital discharge service. Most participants (86%) were able to identify areas of their lives which were important to them, rate their level of functioning on each of these areas and rank their life areas in order of importance. However, 39% were unable to quantify the relative importance of each area of life. Indeed, the majority (57%) of participants who were over 75 years old could not complete this ‘weighting' or evaluative stage. The results suggest that the phenomenological approach to measuring QoL may be employed successfully with older people but that the ‘weighting' system used by existing individualised QoL measures needs to be refined, especially when assessing people over 75. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Individualised quality of life nationallicence Older people nationallicence Dempster Martin Health and Social Care Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK aut Donnelly Michael Health and Social Care Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-05-01), 369-375 0962-9343 9:4<369 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008959925664 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008959925664 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dempster Martin Health and Social Care Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Donnelly Michael Health and Social Care Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-05-01), 369-375 0962-9343 9:4<369 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer