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SUBMITTER: Kojima G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4893360 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kojima Gotaro G Iliffe Steve S Morris Richard W RW Taniguchi Yu Y Kendrick Denise D Skelton Dawn A DA Masud Tahir T Bowling Ann A
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation 20160109 7
<h4>Purpose</h4>To investigate associations between baseline frailty status and subsequent changes in QOL over time among community-dwelling older people.<h4>Methods</h4>Among 363 community-dwelling older people ≥65 years, frailty was measured using Frailty Index (FI) constructed from 40 deficits at baseline. QOL was measured using Older People's Quality of Life Questionnaire (OPQOL) six times over 2.5 years. Two-level hierarchical linear models were employed to predict QOL changes over time acc ...[more]