Older people (aged 65 years and over) are the fastest growing age cohort in the majority of
developed countries, and the proportion of individuals defined as the oldest old (aged 80 …

Background This study examined the relationships between a newly developed older
person-specific non-preference-based quality of life (QoL) instrument (Older People's …

Abstract Background The Investigating Choice Experiments for the Preferences of Older
People (ICEPOP) programme developed a capability-based measure of general quality of …

Background This paper describes the methods and results of a systematic review to identify
instruments used to measure quality of life outcomes in older people. The primary focus of …

Purpose To identify the salient quality of life characteristics relevant to older people in
receipt of community aged care services in order to develop dimensions for a draft …

Background This paper describes the collection and integration of mixed methods data to
facilitate the final selection of items for the Quality of Life–Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) …

Objective Health economic evaluations using common health-related quality of life
measures may fall short in adequately incorporating all relevant benefits of health and social …

Gaining health may not be the main goal of healthcare services aimed at older people,
which may (also) seek to improve wellbeing. This emphasizes the need of finding …

Objective This paper reports on the valuation of the classification system for the Quality-of-
Life Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) instrument using a discrete choice experiment …

Introduction The ageing of the population represents a significant challenge for aged care in
Australia and in many other countries internationally. In an environment of increasing …