Whose quality of life? A comparison of measures of self-determination and emotional wellbeing in research with older adults with and without intellectual disability

Background Measures of quality of life (QOL) must be appropriate for specific groups but comparable across groups. In this paper, we compared how QOL is measured in research with older adults with and without an intellectual disability (ID).Methods Measures used in 2 population studies of older adults with and without ID (Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing [IDS-TILDA], and The Irish Longitudinal Study on...