Quality of Life of in Alzheimers Disease (QoL-AD)
What It Measures
The QOL-AD asks a person with Alzheimer's disease how their life is going, and asks a caregiver the same questions about them. Both perspectives are recorded, because the two often differ — and the difference is itself informative.
Thirteen areas are rated poor, fair, good, or excellent: physical health, energy, mood, living situation, memory, family, marriage or significant relationship, friends, self as a whole, ability to do chores around the house, ability to do things for fun, money, and life as a whole. Each rating scores 1 to 4, summing to a total from 13 to 52. Higher is better. The person answers about themselves; the caregiver rates the person's situation as they see it.
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Learn More: The QOL-AD holds up across all severities of dementia, which is unusual — many quality of life measures become unreliable as cognition declines.