Quality of life amongst older Brazilians: a cross-cultural validation of the CASP-19 into Brazilian-Portuguese.

As population ageing becomes a global phenomenon the need to understand the quality of life of older people around the world has become increasingly salient. The CASP-19 is a well established measure of quality of later life. The scale is composed of 19 items which map onto the four domains of contr...

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Main Authors: Fábia M Lima, Martin Hyde, Holendro Singh Chungkham, Clarice Correia, Alexsandra Siqueira Campos, Marília Campos, Moacir Novaes, Jerson Laks, Kátia Petribu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3989195?pdf=render