Health and other aspects of the quality of life of older people

AC Michalos, AM Hubley, BD Zumbo… - Social Indicators …, 2001 - Springer
… , compared to adults surveyed in 1997, the behaviour of respondents in our survey of older
people was not … Sixty-six percent of respondents aged 65 years and older were female. Fifty-…

What older people do: Time use and exploring the link between role participation and life satisfaction in people aged 65 years and over

K McKenna, K Broome, J Liddle - Australian Occupational …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… Therefore, despite differences in the methodology used to collect the data and the fact that
data for the current study were collected 6–7 years after the ABS study, there is remarkable …

Enhancing the quality of extended life years. Identification of the oldest old with a very good and very poor quality of life

E Grundy, A Bowling - Aging & Mental Health, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
… quality of life in older age, in this population, by analyzing what proportion of older people
had … Almost half the sample had poor life satisfaction scores (0±6/20) and a quarter had GHQ …

Determinants of quality of life amongst older people in deprived neighbourhoods

AE Smith, J Sim, T Scharf, C Phillipson - Ageing & Society, 2004 - cambridge.org
… Aggregate measure encompassing responses to six statements about individuals
perceptions of their neighbourhood, including ‘I believe my neighbours would help me in an …

The experience of quality of life among older people

G Borglin, AK Edberg, IR Hallberg - Journal of aging studies, 2005 - Elsevier
life actually means for them? To illuminate this, eleven in-depth interviews were conducted
with six … analysis revealed that quality of life in old age meant a preserved self and meaning in …

Quality of life from the perspectives of older people

Z Gabriel, ANN Bowling - Ageing & Society, 2004 - cambridge.org
… body of knowledge on quality of life in old age based on older people’s views. The method
… Quality of Life Survey, which sought to include all respondents aged 65 or more years living …

Life satisfaction and associated factors among people aged 60 years and above in six European countries

C Fagerström, C Borg, C Balducci, V Burholt… - … in Quality of life, 2007 - Springer
… with life satisfaction across European countries. This study aimed to investigate life satisfaction
among people aged 60–89 years in six … Knowledge of what indicates older people’s life

Enhancing later life: how older people perceive active ageing?

A Bowling - Aging and Mental Health, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… out of 564 survivors aged over 70 (60%) responded to this third survey wave 6 years post-baseline.
Perceptions of active ageing, and the distributions for self-rated active ageing in this …

Determinants of quality of life for older people living with a disability in the community

K Murphy, A Cooney, EO Shea… - Journal of Advanced …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… The sample comprised 122 older people with one of six … A model of the factors that determine
quality of life of older people … Quality of life of older people with a disability was revealed …

The last 2 years of life: functional trajectories of frail older people

KE Covinsky, C Eng, LY Lui… - Journal of the …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… with diagnoses such as metastatic lung cancer, a program limiting palliative benefits to
the last 6 months of life is problematic for the patients following the functional trajectories …