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ON-GOING PROJECTS

• TRANSLATION AND VALIDATION OF DEMENTIA-SPECIFIC QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT SCALES
  DatE: 2007
  Coordination: Ramona Lucas
  Funding: Pfizer España
  Summary: We have selected three scales: Cornell Brown Scale for Dementia (CBS), Dementia Quality of Life (DQoL) and Dementia Quality of Life (DEMQOL), accounting for their psychometric properties, briefness and that were responded by the subject.
  
  
• DIS-QOL
  Date: 2005-2008
  Coordination: Ramona Lucas
  CE Code: SP23 – CT – 2005 - 513723
  Funding: European Comission
  Summary: Quality of Care and Quality of Life for People with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities: Integrated Living, Social Inclusion and Service User Participation" (DIS-QOL).
  DIS-QOL will investigate the quality of care for people with disabilities in regard to developments in social policy and typical examples of service practice, but will focus also on the subjective experience of individuals with disabilities within these frameworks..
  Publicación: Newsletter 1
  
  
• LIDO
  Date: 2005-2007
  Coordination: Ramona Lucas
  Funding: AATM
  Código AATM: 001/11/2004
  Summary: Cronicity of depression, quality of life and use of resources: 5 year follow-up. The main objective is to know the cronicity of major depression in a cohort of primary care patients who were initially diagnosed in 1998. The patients were followed up during one year, being assessed at 6 week, 3, 9 and 12 months.
  
  

FINALISED PROJECTS

• QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE ELDERLY IN CATALONIA
  Date: 2004-2006
  Staff: Ramona Lucas, Antoni Salvà, Jaume March
  Funding: Fundació Viure i Conviure
  Summary: Epidemiological study that aims to know the perception of the elderly of their quality of life and the involved main socio-demographic and health determinants.
  
  
• WHOQOL-OLD
  Date: 2001-2004
  Staff: Ramona Lucas
  Funding: Comissió Europea
  Summary: International project which has the objective of developing a questionnaire in order to evaluate the quality of life of the elderly: "The measurement of quality of life in older adults and its relationship to healthy ageing" (WHOQOL-OLD). It is funded by the EC, with 23 participant countries, and has the support of the World Health Organisation. The project has a duration of 36 months (05/01/01-04/30/04). It's coordinated by the University of Edinburgh (Prof. Mick Power (Edinburgh).
  Website: www.who.dk