| Description |
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"It's a core issue at the heart of elder care: while best-practice data exist for long-term care, quality of life as a concept, measure and standard for care outcomes remains elusive. The result of an ambitious European research initiative, the Care Keys Project addresses quality of life issues among frail, care-dependent seniors, taking their social as well as health needs into account. Care-Related Quality of Life in Old Age explains the theory behind Care Keys, its methodology, empirical findings, and practical considerations in promoting effective, efficient elder care aimed at social and emotional well-being and including disabled and cognitively impaired patients."--Back cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The general framework and methods of the care keys research / Marja Vaarama, Richard Pieper and Andrew Sixsmith -- Instrumentation of the care keys research / Marja Vaarama ... [et al.] -- Care keys data and statistical methods / Ene-Margit Tiit, Kai Saks and Marja Vaarama -- The concept of care-related quality of life / Richard Pieper and Marja Vaarama -- The concept of quality of long-term care / Marja Vaarama ... [et al.] -- Quality management in long-term care / Richard Pieper ... [et al.] -- Subjective quality of life of care-dependent older people in five European Union countries / Kai Saks and Ene-Margit Tiit -- Quality of life of older homecare clients / Marja Vaarama and Ene-Margit Tiit -- Quality of life in institutional care / Kai Saks ... [et al.] -- Quality of life and dementia / Andrew Sixsmith, Margaret Hammond and Grant Gibson -- The target efficiency of care : models and analyses / Claus Heislbetz, Petteri Hertto and Marja Vaarama -- Quality management and the care keys quality matrix / Richard Pieper, Claus Heislbetz and Mona Frommelt -- The care keys toolkit / Richard Pieper ... [et al.] -- Care-related quality of life : an overview / Marja Vaarama ... [et al.]. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Care -- Europe.
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Care Keys Project.
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Quality of life -- Europe.
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| Added Author |
Vaarama, Marja.
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Pieper, Richard, 1945-
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Sixsmith, Andrew.
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| ISBN |
0387721681 hardback |
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9780387721682 hardback |
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038772169X (e-ISBN) |
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9780387721699 (e-ISBN) |
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