| Title: |
Measuring Quality of Life to Promote Healthy Ageing and Integrated Care |
| Authors: |
George, Stacey; Block, Heather; Freeman, Matthew; Stevens, Alexandra; Nguyen, Sally; Milte, Rachel |
| Source: |
International Journal of Integrated Care; Vol. 26 No. S1 (2026): 25th International Conference on Integrated Care, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-16 May 2025; 286 ; 1568-4156 |
| Publisher Information: |
Ubiquity Press |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) |
| Description: |
Background: Internationally high numbers of people who are ageing experience chronic health conditions, which impacts on quality of life (QoL) and demands across the health system. Improving and maintaining QoL is the ultimate aim of healthcare by the World Health Organization (WHO), especially care for people living with chronic conditions and multi-morbidities. The most suitable QoL instruments for adults with chronic health conditions is unknown, and if identified offers potential to inform evaluation of tailored interventions to maximise health and QoL outcomes across the ageing trajectory and care settings. Promoting QoL measurement provides the opportunity to support person-centred models of care fostering the integration of services across the care continuum. Approach: Prospective cross-sectional study using an online survey collecting two QoL measures: QoL Aged Care Consumers (QoL-ACC) and EQ-5D-5L was conducted in general practice settings between July 2023- February 2024. Inclusion criteria: People aged 40-70 years who had ≥1 chronic condition. The project was co-designed with the primary health network, consumer needs assessment, and researchers in response to the Australian Government aged care priorities. A multidisciplinary team were involved in facilitating the implementation of QoL assessment including medical, nursing and allied health practitioners, primary health care staff (designers and capacity builders), health economist and statistician. Results: 224 participants completed the survey (mean (SD) age = 58.1 (9.5) years). A large proportion indicated they had poor QoL in the domains of pain management (40.5% had their pain well managed most of the time), leisure activities and hobbies (31.4% most of the time, 21.4% some of the time) on the QoL-ACC; and pain or discomfort (85.3%), anxiety and depression (71%), and performing their usual activities (61%) on the EQ-5D-5L. There were no significant differences in utility between the younger and older age groups for the EQ-5D-5L nor the QOL-ACC ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/10618/11416 |
| DOI: |
10.5334/ijic.ICIC25286 |
| Availability: |
https://account.ijic.org/index.php/up-j-ijic/article/view/10618; https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC25286 |
| Rights: |
Copyright (c) 2026 The Author(s) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.BA5DF513 |
| Database: |
BASE |