Reliability of health-related quality-of-life assessments made by older adults and significant others for health states of increasing cognitive impairment
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- 作者：Gina Bravo ; Modou Sene ; Marcel Arcand
- 关键词：Health ; related quality of life ; Elderly ; Proxy ; Consistency ; Agreement ; Cognitive impairment ; Generalizability theory
- 刊名：Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1117KB
- 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Quality of Life Research;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1477-7525
- 卷排序：15
文摘
BackgroundOlder adults are encouraged by many organizations to engage in advance care planning in the event of decisional incapacity. Planning for future health care often involves anticipating health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in states of reduced cognitive functioning. No study has yet examined whether anticipated HRQoL is stable over time. The accuracy with which significant others can predict how an older adult envisions HRQoL in a future state of cognitive impairment is also unknown. We investigated the extent to which health-related quality-of-life ratings made by older adults and designated proxies for health states of increasing cognitive impairment are consistent over time and agree with each other.