Quality of life and dementia

Authors

  • Victoria de la Caridad Ribot Reyes Complejo Comunitario Interdisciplinario de Salud (CINSA)
  • Yanisleydis Leyva Villafaña Policlínico Universitario "Carlos Manuel Portuondo"
  • Carlos Moncada Menéndez Policlínico Universitario "Carlos Manuel Portuondo"
  • Rosa Alfonso Sánchez Policlínico Universitario "Jorge Ruiz Ramírez"

Keywords:

CALIDAD DE VIDA/psicología, DEMENCIA, ENFERMEDAD DE ALZHEIMER, LONGEVIDAD

Abstract

Background: the promotion of well-being and the maintenance of a good quality of life are essential in chronic diseases that tend to dependence like dementia.
Objective: to present the fundamental criteria about the quality of life in people with dementia.
Methods: a bibliographic review was made in Infomed, specifically in SciELO and PUBMED data bases with the descriptors quality of life and dementia. Twenty-nine references were used to make the review.
Development: the term quality of life, its origins and definitions, as well as the introduction of this term associated to health as a concept, were reviewed. The controversy around the quality of life of people with dementia in different stages and the main instruments to measure it, were analyzed.
Conclusions: there are significant challenges in the study of quality of life in dementia, in both theoretical and methodological fields. There are many instruments specifically created for the study of quality of life in these patients, although most of them do not have a common theoretical model. Continuing improving the specific measures of quality of life for dementia with the objective of creating a valid instrument for all the stages of the disease, based on an only conceptual framework of quality of life, is the challenge.

DeCS: QUALITY OF LIFE/PSYCHOLOGY; DEMENTIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; LONGEVITY; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC.

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Author Biographies

Victoria de la Caridad Ribot Reyes, Complejo Comunitario Interdisciplinario de Salud (CINSA)

Especialista de II grado en Medicina General Integral y de I grado en Psiquiatría, Máster en Longevidad Satisfactoria y en Bioética, profesora asistente, aspirante a investigador. Coordinadora del programa de atención a adicciones del CINSA

Yanisleydis Leyva Villafaña, Policlínico Universitario "Carlos Manuel Portuondo"

Residente de II año de Medicina General Integral

Carlos Moncada Menéndez, Policlínico Universitario "Carlos Manuel Portuondo"

Especialista de I grado en Medicina General Integral, profesor instructor. Vicedirector de Higiene y Epidemiología del policlínico

Rosa Alfonso Sánchez, Policlínico Universitario "Jorge Ruiz Ramírez"

Especialista de I grado en Medicina General Integral

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Published

2015-11-12

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Ribot Reyes V de la C, Leyva Villafaña Y, Moncada Menéndez C, Alfonso Sánchez R. Quality of life and dementia. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2015 Nov. 12 [cited 2025 Aug. 17];20(1):77-86. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/4156

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2016)

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Review Articles

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