Personal Wellbeing and Quality of Life of Older Adults

Abstract

Looking at ageing in terms of quality of life and wellbeing helps broaden the limits of this perspective, perhaps too focused on deterioration of health and functional capacity, towards a multidimensional approach to the life of people in their ageing process. Behind the scientific interest in this matter, there is confirmation that an improvement in or, at least, maintaining the quality of life of the population would allow the elderly to remain in their usual place of residence, autonomously and independently, for as long as possible , thus easing the burden on the public system of social services and also on families, as the elderly would actually become a resource for society. This work was based on comparable information derived from two data sources of older adults in community-dwelling in Spain. The first one is the Quality of Life of Older Adults-Spain survey, carried out in 2008 to a representative sample of 1.106 people aged 60 or over. This was a multidimensional survey designed to assess the conditions and quality of life of older adults in Spain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) TS - RIS