Elderly Assessment System (EASY-Care) was developed across Europe, including the UK, during the 1990s to provide a holistic and standardised approach to comprehensive geriatric assessment, and is a combined medical and social assessment tool. Development was supported by a grant from the European Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO), involving cross-cultural adaptation and testing across several European countries. Itis a comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGAs)
PCCC or QoL?
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This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Quality of Life
Main Domains Measured
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This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Quality of Life in Older People
Type of measure
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The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
Respondent
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The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Patients/Professionals
Detailed Information
Year developed
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The year in which the measure was first published.
2001
Country developed in
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The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
UK
Original publication
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The publication in which the measure was originally published.
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Older People
Main context tested in
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The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Assessment of Older People
Main countries used in
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The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
UK
Target age
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e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Older people
Used in UK?
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Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
Yes
Impact
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A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
0.466666667
Domains
Domain description
general health, physical abilities, memory, home, safety, and support, health-care services received, and looking after your health.