NH Quality of Life Measures Bibliography

General Work on Quality of Life Measures and Indicators

Degenholtz, H. B., Kane, R. A, Kane, R. L., Bershadsky, B., and Kling, KC.  (2006).  Predicting Nursing Facility Residents' Quality of Life Using External Indicators.  Health Services Research.  41 (2); 339-396.  [Link to PDF]

Kane RA. (2001). Long-term Care and a Good Quality of Life: Bringing Them Closer Together, The Gerontologist. Vol. 41 (3), 293-304. [Link to PDF]

Kane, RL, Kane RA., Bershadsky, B, Degenholtz,HB, Totten, A, & Jung, K (2005).  Proxy Sources for Nursing Home Resident’s Quality of Life. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 60B (6), S 318-S-324. [Link to PDF]

Kane, R L, Bershadsky, B, Kane, RA, Degenholtz, HB, Liu, J, Giles, K, and Kling, KC. (2004).  Using resident reports of quality of life to distinguish among nursing homes.  The Gerontologist. 44: 624-632.  [Link to PDF]

Kane, RA.  (2003). Definition, Measurement, and Correlates of Quality of Life in Nursing Homes:Towards a Reasonable Practice, Research, and Policy Agenda, The Gerontologist, 43 (special Edition II), 28-36. [Link to PDF]

Kane, RA, Kling, KC, Bershadsky, B, Kane, RL, Giles, K., Degenholtz, HB, Liu, J. & Cutler, LJ. (2003). Quality of life measures for nursing home residents. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 58A (3), 240-248, [Link to PDF]  

Physical Environments and Quality of Life

This category includes studies of how the environmental measures and how the physical environment affects quality of life, and also results of various post-occupancy evaluation studies done using nursing homes in the Quality of Life study sample. 

Degenholtz, HB., Miller, MJ., Kane, RA., Cutler, LJ., Kane, RL (2006). Developing a Typology of Nursing Home Environments. Journal of Housing for the Elderly. 20 (1-2), 5-29). [Link to PDF]   

Cutler, LJ,  Kane, RA, Degenholtz, HB, Miller, MJ, & Grant L (2006).    Assessing and Comparing Physical Environments for Nursing Home Residents: Using New Tools for Greater Specificity   The Gerontologist.  45 (1): 42-51. [Link to PDF] 

Cutler, L.J. & Kane, R.A. (2002). Environments for Privacy, Safety, and Movement of Persons with Dementia: Maximal Privacy + Moderate Barriers = Minimal Intrusion. Alzheimer's Care Quarterly. 3(1): 50-54.  [Link to PDF]

Cutler, LJ & Kane, RA.  (2005) As Great as All Outdoors: A Study of Outdoor Spaces as a Neglected Resource for Nursing Home Residents, Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 19 (3/4), 29-48. [Link to PDF] 

Magnitude Estimation Studies

 (These are a series of studies of how persons with different roles and backgrounds perceive the importance of various aspects of quality of life and the likelihood that they could influence various quality of life outcomes.)

Kane, RL,  Rockwood, T, Hyer, K,  Desjardins, K, Brassard, A, Gessert, C, & Kane, RA (2005).  Rating the Importance of Nursing Home Residents’ Quality of Life.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53, 2076-2082. [Link to PDF]

Kane, RL, Rockwood, T, Hyer, K, Desjardins, K, C,, Brassard, A., Gessert, C, Kane, RA, & Mueller, C (2006).   Nursing Home Staff's Perceived Ability to Influence Quality of Life. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 21 (3): 249-256. [Link to PDF]

Gessert, CE, Hyer, K, Kane, RL, Rockwood, T, Brassard, AB, Desjardins, K, & Kane, RA. (2005). Cognitive Impairment and Quality of Life: Views of Providers of Long-Term Care Services. Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders, 19 (2), 85-90. [Link to PDF]

 Kane, RL, Rockwood, T, Hyer, K, Desjardins, K, C,, Brassard, A., Gessert, C, Kane, RA, & Mueller, C (2006).   Nursing Home Staff's Perceived Ability to Influence Quality of Life. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 21 (3): 249-256. [Link to PDF]