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Evanthia Evangelou
Dr, Department of Welfare, Social Policy and Gender Equality Municipality of Glyfada, South Attica, Greece
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Exploring the Views of Care Staff and of the Members of a Local Open Care Centre About Quality of Life (QoL) and Active Healthy Ageing
Author(s): Evanthia Evangelou*
The promotion of healthy and active ageing is nowadays a global challenge. This project explored several QoL domains of men and women over 60 yrs old, residents of Southern Attica, users of the Local Open Care Centre (LOCC) for older adults. It examined as well, the views of care staff about what are the wider determinants that affect QoL of older adults. Main objective of the study was to investigate the impact of the LOCC activities to the users’ well-being, as well as, to explore several life domains, such as, family and social relations, living conditions, finance, health status and leisure and their level of satisfaction from these domains. Results indicated that the views of the professionals and those of the LOCC users were compatible, in terms of life domains which have a positive impact to older people ’ s well-being. This commentary is part o.. View more»