Posted on
8 April 2025
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This article was one of the outputs from the Developing Resources and Minimum Dataset for Care Home Adoption (DACHA) study, led by Professor Claire Goodman from Hertfordshire with a consortium of 8 Universities including collaborators here at ACHA.
The paper describes validation of three quality of life tools in the care home setting. These can help up to understand how satisfied residents are with their day-to-day life, and give us a sense of how to change care to meet their needs better.
Three measures – the EQ-5D-5L-Proxy 2, the ICECAP-O, the ASCOT-Proxy-Resident were evaluated. We found that the ICECAP-O and EQ-5D-5L were particularly useful in describing changes in Quality of life for people who struggled with activities of daily living, whilst the ASCOT-Proxy-Resident showed associations with quality of care and care effectiveness.
We found that all three measures were acceptable for use in care homes, and that they were complimentary. This work will help teams working to produce a minimum data set for care homes, and help in the future to ensure that we deliver care which is shown to improve Quality of Life in the care home setting.
You can find the article here.
