Health-related quality-of-life instruments for Alzheimer's disease and mixed dementia

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 691-706

  Perales, Jaime ^a,b   Cosco, Theodore D ^b   Stephan, Blossom C M ^b   Haro, Josep Maria ^a,c   Brayne, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

dimensions; Keywords: systematic review; mood; operationalization; psychometric properties; scales

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE; BATH ASSESSMENT OF SUBJECTIVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN DEMENTIA; COMMUNITY DEMENTIA QUALITY OF LIFE PROFILE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORNELL BROWN SCALE FOR QUALITY OF LIFE IN DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA CARE MAPPING; DEMENTIA QUALITY OF LIFE INSTRUMENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT ACTIVITY SCALE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE; QUALITY OF LIFE FOR DEMENTIA; QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OLDER PEOPLE EXPERIENCING DEMENTIA; QUALITY OF LIFE IN LATE STAGE DEMENTIA SCALE; REVIEW; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VIENNA LIST;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84875433365     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610212002293     Document Type: Review

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