Service Preferences and Quality of Life for Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2450
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aged care services; consumer preferences; disabilities services; disability employment; quality of life; lived experiences; psychosocial well-being
Interests: aged care services; community care; consumer preferences; economic evaluation; health services research; patient reported outcomes; residential age care; social care; quality of life; psychometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The move to individualised funding and more choice and control over services and support has been a notable policy shift in recent years, here in Australia as well as internationally, for both older adults and people with disabilities. Both populations often rely on family carers to support service choices, though information on service quality to facilitate decision making is not always available or in easily accessible formats for either older adults, people with disabilities or their family members. Over-relying on internet-based resources in particular can disadvantage older adults and people with intellectual disabilities, who may have limited internet literacy, from accessing the information they need to make genuine choices about their own lives. Evidence is needed on consumers’ services preferences, how best to support choice and decision making, and on the measurement of outcomes that are most important and meaningful to older adults and adults with disabilities.
One such outcome is quality of life. That older adults and people with disabilities experience a good quality of life has been recognised as a central tenet of service provision to these populations, yet more evidence is required on what services and supports improve quality of life and how quality of life (and other relevant psychosocial outcomes) is measured in a way that is meaningful to older adults and adults with disabilities themselves.
This Special Issue is titled “Service Preferences and Quality of Life for Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities”. We encourage submissions relevant to health and social care services to these two populations that cover either service preferences and/or quality of life or other psychosocial outcomes related to wellbeing. We also welcome papers on the perspectives of carers and their own experiences and outcomes from providing informal care to older people and adults with disabilities. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods papers will be included, as well as reviews, positioning papers and methodological papers. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions. Please see the Manuscript Submission Information below for further details.
Dr. Claire Hutchinson
Dr. Jyoti Khadka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aged care
- community care
- consumer preferences
- family carers
- individualised funding
- long-term care
- people with disabilities
- social participation
- quality of life
- quality of care
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