Good Hearing for Ensuring Healthy Aging

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
S. Boucher ◽  
G. Duval ◽  
C. Annweiler
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Functional Ability ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Care For Older People

«Healthy aging», defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as « the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being » (1), needs the involvement of various physicians. The WHO-ICOPE (Integrated Care for Older People) approach was developed to early identify, diagnose and treat older adults’ frailties defined as impairments of at least one of the six intrinsic capacities (i.e., hearing, vision, mood, cognition, mobility and nutrition), which could precipitate functional loss and alter the quality of life (2). Among these intrinsic abilities, hearing is the sense of communication and socialization, and may influence the quality and accuracy of the medical examination and interview. Hearing impairment usually develop insidiously and is unrecognized or insufficiently self-reported by older patients. However, by 2050, the number of people with hearing loss will increase to over 900 million worldwide, mainly due to aging population.

scholarly journals PROSPERITY INDEX AS A MEASURE OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN MACEDONIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1557-1562
Author(s):  
Tatjana Dimoska ◽  
Slavica Dimoska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Better Life Index ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Prosperity Index

Quality of life is an exceptionally complex concept which is the object of interest of different scientific disciplines such as: medicine, sociology, psychology, economics, philosophy, environment, sport, recreation, architecture etc. This concept is a very broad and multidimensional concept covering all spheres of society i.e. the overall well-being of people and society. Quality of life has objective and subjective dimension and can be measured at the level of individuals or society in global. This concept is a difficult concept to define, widely used, but with little consistency, enjoying a wide variety of definitions. There is no single fully agreed definition of quality of life, although a working group of the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined the concept with emphasis on the personal evaluation of functioning in relation to individual and/or cultural standards, values, expectations and goals.Nowadays, many indicators are used for measuring the quality of life concept. These composite indicators are significantly different from each other according to: components that make them, sources of data, methodology of calculation, development aspects they focus on, their coverage etc. Some of those indicators are: Happy Planet Index (HPY), Human Development Index (HDI), Better Life Index, Where to be Born Index, Legatum Prosperity Index (LPI), etc.One of these indicators is Legatum Prosperity Index (LPI), a relative new and comprehensive indicator, which explains in a unique way the level and the dynamics of prosperity of the countries in the world. The Legatum Prosperity Index (LPI) captures the breadth of prosperity of the country across nine pillars of prosperity: economic quality, business environment, governance, safety and security, education, health, and natural environment. This index is based on 104 different variables analyzed across 149 nations around the world, covering more than 96% of the world’s population and 99% of the world’s GDP. The analyzed country is given a score for each pillar. This score is based on the country’s performance with respect to each of the indicators in that pillar. Each pillar contains around 12 indicators. The mean of nine pillar scores yields a country’s overall Prosperity score. The overall Prosperity Index rankings are based on this score.In This paper firstly will be explained the concept of quality of life and the index of prosperity as an index for measuring the quality of life, its construction and calculation, as well as its application in calculating the quality of life in Macedonia for the period 2007-2018.

Re: Caron et al., 2021, sociocultural context and autistics quality of life: A comparison between Quebec and France

Autism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136236132110518
Author(s):  
Jacqui Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Organization Quality ◽  
Life Measure ◽  
The World ◽  
Organization Quality ◽  
Autistic Adults ◽  
Health Organization

The purpose of this letter to the editors is to highlight to the readership of Autism the recommended use of the Autism Quality of Life measure (ASQoL) for research with autistic adults. The ASQoL was developed for use alongside the World Health Organization Quality of Life – Bref (WHOQOL-Bref) and the World Health Organization disabilities module. The letter raises some concerns about the use of the ASQoL as a standalone measure in a recent study by Caron et al. published in Autism. Lay abstract This letter to the editors discusses the use of the ASQoL for research with autistic adults. The autism quality of life measure was developed for use alongside two existing measures of quality of life developed by the World Health Organization. It was not developed as a questionnaire to be used in its own. The letter raises some concerns about the use of the autism quality of life measure as a standalone measure in a recent study by Caron et al., published in Autism.

scholarly journals The Quality of Life of Older Individuals Following the World Health Organization Assessment Criteria

Geriatrics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Margarida Goes ◽  
Manuel José Lopes ◽  
João Marôco ◽  
Henrique Oliveira ◽  
César Fonseca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Factor Score ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Organization Quality ◽  
Translation Validation ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric qualities of the WHOQOL-BREF(PT) (the questionnaire developed by the World Health Organization Quality of Life Grpup for quality of life assessment), when applied to Portuguese elderly people residing in a community setting. The psychometric qualities were assessed by confirmatory factor analysis. A hierarchical second-order model and a third model were performed, and all three models presented similar and reasonable adjustment indexes. The data analysis showed that the construct failed only regarding discriminant validity because the correlations between the first-order factors were higher, associated with lower values of average variance extracted. The psychometric qualities found in the original translation/validation of the WHOQOL-BREF(PT) were compared with those found in this study; this study found higher correlations between domains but a similar level of factor reliability. The findings of this study lead to three recommendations: (i) to compute each factor score for each participant using the factor score weights obtained from confirmatory analysis models instead of adopting a unitary weight for each item, as proposed by the authors of the original translation/validation of the WHOQOL-BREF(PT); (ii) to compute a QOL score, which is not included in the original translation/validation; and (iii) to analyze differences between individual scores for each participants, which should be done by a group of health experts.

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