A Qualitative Approach to Assess Cost-Outcomes in Interventions for Promoting Independent Living

摘要

This paper presents a qualitative methodology to assess costs and outcomes in interventions aiming to promote independent living and to increase quality of life within the elder population. This qualitative approach allows prioritizing the assignment of an important number of quite different products and resources in a structured and relative low-time consuming manner. This method is based on the consideration of two economical parameters: costs and benefits of the intervention; a functional parameter: improvement in the performance of Activities of Daily Living and a psychosocial parameter: perception of quality of life.