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Health, quality of life and health psychology

WHOQOL-OLD (older adults module).

WHOQOL-OLD

What it measures
Quality of life in older adults - 6 facets (sensory abilities; autonomy; past/present/future activities; social participation; death and dying; intimacy)
Length and format
24 items. 5-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
20+ languages (WHO field-centre languages)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Power M, Quinn K, Schmidt S, WHOQOL-OLD Group. Qual Life Res. 2005;14(10):2197-2214.

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