Research projects on Quality of Life among the older people in Spain: towards a holistic approach

FERNANDEZ-MAYORALAS, G.; ROJO-PEREZ, F.; RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, V.; PRIETO FLORES, M.E.; MARTINEZ-MARTIN, P.; FRADES PAYO, B.

Congreso; Third International Conference on Quality of Life: Towards Quality of Life Improvement; 2005

The aim of this paper is to report the state of art of two scientific research projects on Quality of Life (QoL) among the Spanish elderly living in family housing in the region of Madrid (Spain).These research projects deal with QoL from a global or holistic approach/focus, taking into account QoL as a system, in which all attributes or components of the elderly life meet to set up the level of satisfaction with life in general, as well as the most important areas in life and their individual weight into global QoL.The research projects are funded by the National Plan for Scientific Research, Technological Development and Innovation (2004-2007). Researchers involved in these projects come from the Spanish Coincil for Scientific Research and from the Institute of Health Carlos III.This paper deals with the hypotheses and objectives of both research projects, QoL measurements instruments to be used, surveys design and thecnical features, statistical techniques to be applied in order to achieve the purposes.Preliminary results will be report in the paper.