Care-Related Quality of Life in Old Age (eBook)

Marja Vaarama is Professor of Social Work and Social Gerontology at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her areas of research include quality of life in old age, quality and performance of long-term care for older people, gerontological social work, information technology for planning, evaluation and management of long term care for older people. She is the co-ordinator of the EU-funded Care Keys research project. Richard Pieper is Professor of Urban Studies and Social Planning at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His main fields of research are in theory of social and regional integration and collective identity, and aging and technology, elderly care planning, and social and health care systems. Andrew Sixsmith is Lecturer in Social Gerontology in the Department of Primary Care at the University of Liverpool. His current research interests focus on new technologies to facilitate the delivery of community health and welfare services.

Foreword 6
Preface 8
Contents 12
Research Framework 14
The General Framework and Methods of the Care Keys Research 15
Instrumentation of the Care Keys Research 31
Care Keys Data and Statistical Methods 57
Theoretical Results 74
The Concept of Care-Related Quality of Life 75
The Concept of Quality of Long- Term Care 112
Quality Management in Long- Term Care 135
Empirical Results 161
Subjective Quality of Life of Care- Dependent Older People in Five European Union Countries 162
Quality of Life of Older Homecare Clients 177
Quality of Life in Institutional Care 205
Quality of Life and Dementia 226
The Target Efficiency of Care— Models and Analyses 243
Quality Management and the Care Keys Quality Matrix 264
The Care Keys Toolkit 290
Summary 308
Care-Related Quality of Life: An Overview 309
Subject Index 335