Cross-sectional study assessing the feasibility of measuring residents' Quality of Life in English care homes and assessing the construct validity and internal …

AM Towers, S Rand, S Allan, L Webster, S Palmer… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents' quality of life
(QoL) in digital social care records (DSCRs) and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) …

Factors associated with care home resident quality of life: Demonstrating the value of a pilot Minimum Data Set using cross-sectional analysis from the DACHA study

S Allan, S Rand, AM Towers, K De Corte, F Tracey… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background: To maintain good standards of care, evaluations of policy interventions or
potential improvements to care are required. A number of quality of life (QoL) measures …

Measuring quality of life in care homes when self-report is challenging: the construct validity, structural characteristics and internal consistency of the mixed-methods …

AM Towers, S Rand, G Collins, N Smith… - Age and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction The adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) measures social care-related
quality of life (SCRQoL) using self-completion questionnaires and interviews. Many care …

Measuring health-related quality of life of care home residents: comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses

A Usman, S Lewis, K Hinsliff-Smith, A Long… - Age and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Introduction care home residents are often unable to complete health-related quality of life
questionnaires for themselves because of prevalent cognitive impairment. This study …

Counting what counts: assessing quality of life and its social determinants among nursing home residents with dementia

M Hoben, E Dymchuk, MB Doupe, J Keefe, K Aubrecht… - BMC geriatrics, 2024 - Springer
Background Maximizing quality of life (QoL) is a major goal of care for people with dementia
in nursing homes (NHs). Social determinants are critical for residents' QoL. However, similar …

Measuring health-related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing …

A Usman, S Lewis, K Hinsliff-Smith, A Long… - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Research into interventions to improve health and well-being for older people
living in care homes is increasingly common. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is …

Using EQ-5D for proxy assessment of health-related quality of life in residential care facilities: A systematic review of feasibility and psychometric properties

LJ Cheng, L Engel, LA Chen, SZY Soh… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives The accurate assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in residents
of residential care facilities (RCF) necessitates the use of proxy-reported instruments that …

Measuring quality of life in residential aged care using the EQ‐5D‐5L: a cross‐sectional study on the impact of cognition level and proxy perspective on interrater …

C Hutchinson, DGT Whitehurst… - Health & Social Care …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quality of life (QoL) is an important outcome in aged care, but self‐report is not always
possible due to the high prevalence of cognitive impairment in older aged care residents …

The acceptability and feasibility of using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) to inform practice in care homes

AM Towers, N Smith, S Palmer, E Welch… - BMC Health Services …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) measures social
care related quality of life (SCRQoL) and can be used to measure outcomes and …

Adapting the adult social care outcomes toolkit (ASCOT) for use in care home quality monitoring: conceptual development and testing

AM Towers, J Holder, N Smith, T Crowther… - BMC health services …, 2015 - Springer
Background Alongside an increased policy and practice emphasis on outcomes in social
care, English local authorities are now obliged to review quality at a service level to help in …