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Quality of life among disabled older adults without cognitive impairment and its relation to attendance in day care centres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2012

ESTHER IECOVICH  and
AYA BIDERMAN
ESTHER IECOVICH*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology of Health and Gerontology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
AYA BIDERMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Family Medicine, Division of Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
*
Address for correspondence: Esther Iecovich, Department of Sociology of Health and Gerontology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. E-mail: iecovich@bgu.ac.il
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Abstract

Day care centres intend to improve the quality of life of disabled older adults. The aims of the paper are to: (a) examine the extent to which users of day care centres experience higher levels of quality of life compared to their peers who are non-users; and (b) to explore the relationships between the length of use and frequency of weekly attendance at day care centres and quality of life. This is a case-control study with a sample of 817 respondents, of whom 417 were users of day care centres and 400 were non-users, matched by age, gender and family physician. The study was conducted in 12 day care centres in the southern region of Israel. Data collection included face-to-face interviews using a structured questionnaire. Quality of life was found to be significantly related to the use of day care centres, but length and frequency of attendance were insignificant in explaining quality of life among users of day care centres. The study demonstrated that users of day care centres have a higher quality of life, but in a cross-sectional study we cannot prove causality. Therefore, more research using quasi-experimental and longitudinal research designs is necessary to assess causality between use and attendance at day care centres on users' quality of life.

Keywords

physically disabledquality of lifelength of usefrequency of attendance
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Ageing & Society , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , May 2013 , pp. 627 - 643
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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