Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 24 Issue 1/2

Editorial

Fiona Poland, Anne Killett

From the ground up: assessing the face validity of the Quality of Life – Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) measure with older Australians

Jenny Cleland, Claire Hutchinson, Candice McBain, Jyoti Khadka, Rachel Milte, Ian Cameron, Julie Ratcliffe

This paper aims to assess the face validity to inform content validity of the Quality of Life – Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC), a new measure for quality assessment and economic…

Evaluating a transitional care program for the oldest adults: results from the quantitative phase of a mixed-methods study

Wilma van der Vlegel-Brouwer, Marjolein van der Vlegel, Jean Ellen Duckworth, Hazel Partington, Anneke de Jong

This quantitative phase of a mixed-methods study aims to describe the effect of the Transitional Care Bridge (TCB) programme on functional decline, mortality, health-care…

Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of menopause among “early” and “on-time” women

Ana Isabel Córdoba Iñesta, Pilar Ortí Notari, Barbara M. Gfellner

Attitudes, experiences and knowledge about menopause are relevant, especially when menopause starts earlier than expected. This study aims to examine women who underwent this…

Community living older adults’ appraisal of future health and care needs: a cross-sectional study

Marian van het Bolscher-Niehuis, Stephanie Jansen-Kosterink, Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten

Efficacious self-management at older ages requires the ability to make an accurate appraisal of one’s current and future health situation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is…

Importance of meaningful engagement: how and why older adults volunteer in uncertain times

Renee Dumont, Alicia M. Sellon, Tina M.K. Newsham, Mary C. Hollifield, Alicia Thomas, Melannie Pate, Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock

Many older adults engage in volunteer activities, drawing meaning and purpose through such efforts. Social distancing restrictions, put in place during Covid-19 surges to reduce…

Evaluation of a training programme to train older adults as facilitators in a memory training project: using Kirpatrick’s model

Cristina Vidal-Marti

This study aims to explain the evaluation of a training programme for older adults to make them facilitators of a memory training project. Older adults were trained as…