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Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease (QOL-AD)

 

Author(s)

 

Purpose

  • Pathology:

Nervous system diseases

Psychiatry/psychology

  • Disease:

Alzheimer Disease

  • Objective:

To develop and provide psychometric data on perceived QoL in AD patients as rated by patients and caregivers

  • Population for intended use:

Adult

Geriatrics

 
 

Characteristics

  • Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

  • Administration mode:

Caregiver-administered

Self-administered

[ Caregiver-administered (Family)
Patient and caregiver reports can also be combined ]

  • Number of items:

13

  • Recall/Observation period:

None

 
 

Language(s)

  • Original language:

English for the USA

  • List of existing translations:

The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.

QOL-AD

Danish for Denmark French for France Mandarin Swedish for Sweden
Dutch for the Netherlands German for Germany Norwegian for Norway
English for the UK Italian for Italy Portuguese for Brazil
Finnish for Finland Japanese for Japan Spanish for Spain
 

Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Logsdon RG, Gibbons LE, McCurry SM, Teri L. Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s disease: Patient and Caregiver Reports. Journal of Mental Health and Aging. 1999;5(1):21-32


Logsdon RG, Gibbons LE, McCurry SM, Teri L. Assessing quality of life in older adults with cognitive impairment. Psychosom Med. 2002 May-Jun;64(3):510-9
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Last update: April 2012

Last update in collaboration with the author: February 2006