This discussion paper presents data from the Department of Health funded Measurement
and Valuation of Health survey conducted at the Centre for Health Economics in 1993. This …

Background: there is increasing interest in how to age 'successfully'and in reaching
consensus over its definition. Objective: to assess different models of successful ageing …

Norms are a useful reference for observational studies and for standardising scores for
dissimilar demographic groups. This paper presents population norms for the AQoL-8D …

How should we measure the value of long-term (social) care? This paper describes a care-
related quality of life instrument (ASCOT) and considers aspects of its validity. In particular …

In the course of developing a standardised, non-disease-specific instrument for describing
and valuing health states (based on the items in Table 1), the EuroQol Group (whose …

Abstract Objectives The EQ-5D-5L is a generic preference-based quality-of-life measure for
which the corresponding Portuguese population value set was only recently developed. This …

The broad aim of the research presented here was to define the constituents and indicators
of quality of life (QoL) in older age, in order to offer a more multidimensional and useful …

OBJECTIVES: This article analyzes published studies on the application of the EQ-5D for the
assessment of quality of life in patients with dementia and their carers. The EQ-5D, a generic …

Background: A number of indexes measuring self-reported generic health-related quality-of-
life (HRQoL) using preference-weighted scoring are used widely in population surveys and …

Background Consideration of older adults' quality of life (QoL) is becoming increasingly
important in the evaluation, quality improvement and allocation of health and social care …