Predictors of Quality of Life in Dementia (QoLCog Study)
Most people agree that the term Quality of Life (QoL) includes the concept of whether your life meets your expectations. Improving a person's Quality of Life is a fundamental goal for practitioners and health service providers. Therefore there is a lot of interest in the identification of factors which impact a person's Quality of Life, these have become extremely topical amongst the Scientific community.
The QoLCog study aims to improve the understanding of the impact cognitive problems, like forgetfulness, on Quality of Life (QoL) as experienced by people with dementia and by their carers. The QoLCog study also aims to increase our understanding whether worsening of cognitive problems over time (and other problems, such as carer stress, associated with Alzheimer's disease) have a negative impact on how Quality of Life is experienced and rated by older people with dementia and by their carers.
We hope that by improving our understanding of the factors that influence Quality of Life in dementia we are able to maintain or improve the long term health outcomes of people with Alzheimer's disease and their carers.
Our researchers are currently looking at the data and are making sense of it to see what they have found. They hope to have some published papers on their findings in the next 12 months.
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