Abstract

This study aimed to identify the factors associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among community-dwelling older adults. Physical and mental HRQOL were measured by the 12-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) at baseline and follow-up. Linear regression models were used to evaluate associations between socio-demographic, health, and lifestyle factors and HRQOL. The sample included 661 participants (mean age = 77.4 years). Frailty was negatively associated with physical HRQOL (B = − 5.56; P < 0.001) and mental HRQOL (B = − 6.65; P < 0.001). Participants with a higher score on activities of daily living (ADL) limitations had lower physical HRQOL (B = − 0.63; P < 0.001) and mental HRQOL (B = − 0.18; P = 0.001). Female sex (B = − 2.38; P < 0.001), multi-morbidity (B = − 2.59; P = 0.001), and a high risk of medication-related problems (B = − 2.84; P < 0.001) were associated with lower physical HRQOL, and loneliness (B = − 3.64; P < 0.001) with lower mental HRQOL. In contrast, higher age (B = 2.07; P = 0.011) and living alone (B = 3.43; P < 0.001) were associated with better mental HRQOL in the multivariate models. Future interventions could be tailored to subpopulations with relatively poor self-reported HRQOL, such as frail or lonely older adults to improve their HRQOL.

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Title
Factors associated with health-related quality of life among community-dwelling older adults: the APPCARE study
Author
Bally, Esmée L. S. 1 ; Korenhof, Sophie A. 1 ; Ye, Lizhen 1 ; van Grieken, Amy 1 ; Tan, Siok Swan 2 ; Mattace-Raso, Francesco 3 ; Procaccini, Elena 4 ; Alhambra-Borrás, Tamara 5 ; Raat, Hein 1 

 Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (GRID:grid.5645.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0459 992X) 
 InHolland University of Applied Sciences, Research Group City Dynamics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (GRID:grid.448984.d) (ISNI:0000 0003 9872 5642) 
 Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (GRID:grid.5645.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0459 992X) 
 Funded Project Office, Local Health Authority n.2 Treviso, Treviso, Italy (GRID:grid.5645.2) 
 University of Valencia, Polibienestar Research Institute, Valencia, Spain (GRID:grid.5338.d) (ISNI:0000 0001 2173 938X) 
Pages
14351
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3070880779
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2024. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.