What contributes to a good quality of life in early dementia? Awareness and the QoL-AD: A cross-sectional study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Woods, Robert T ^a   Nelis, Sharon M ^b   Martyr, Anthony ^b   Roberts, Judith ^b   Whitaker, Christopher J ^a   Markova, Ivana ^c   Roth, Ilona ^d   Morris, Robin ^e   Clare, Linda ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anosognosia; Conscientiousness; Insight; Meta cognition; Quality of life; Self awareness; Self concept; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAREGIVER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; EARLY DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; VERY ELDERLY; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84902535398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-12-94     Document Type: Article

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