Role of depressive and cognitive status in self-reported evaluation of quality of life in older people: comparing proxy and physician perspectives

Abstract

Older people with AD perceive their own QOL similarly to and, in some areas, even better than healthy people of the same age. The opposite was observed among the depressed. Informants do not always evaluate QOL in the same way as healthy elders and those with AD, while there is more agreement with depressed patients. Informant evaluation may be helpful but is not necessarily reliable.