The reliability and validity of the Norwegian version of the quality of life in late-stage dementia scale

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 233-242

  Røen, Irene ^a   Selbæk, Geir ^a,b,c   Kirkevold, Øyvind ^a,b,e   Engedal, Knut ^b   Lerdal, Anners ^c,d   Bergh, Sverre ^a  

^a INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^b VESTFOLD HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d LOVISENBERG DIAKONALE HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dementia; Nursing homes; Quality of life; Test retest reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNELL SCALE FOR DEPRESSION IN DEMENTIA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; ITEM TOTAL CORRELATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWEGIAN (CITIZEN); NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE IN LATE STAGE DEMENTIA SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORWAY; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84939526889     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000437093     Document Type: Article

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