Quality of Life

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Residential Aged Care
Country
Australia
Publishing Organisation
National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Person-Centredness
Domain
Quality of Life

Defining Attributes

Definition

Percentage of care recipients who report 'good' or 'excellent' quality of life.

Numerator

Care recipients who reported quality of life through each completion mode of the Quality of Life - Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) (self-completion, interviewer facilitated completion and proxy-completion), scored against the categories: 'Excellent' (care recipients who score between 22–24) or 'Good' (care recipients who score between 19–21).

Denominator

Total number of care recipients.

Exclusions

Care recipients who were absent from the service for the entire quarter or who did not choose to complete the quality of life assessment for the entire quarter.

Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments

None

Stratifications

None

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Standardised clinical data
Data Collection Methods

A quality of life assessment must be offered to each care recipient for completion, around the same time every quarter. Data items collected: Number of care recipients offered a quality of life assessment through self-completion, interviewer facilitated completion or proxy-completion. Number of care recipients excluded because they were absent from the service for the entire quarter. Number of care recipients excluded because they did not choose to complete the QOL-ACC for the entire quarter. Number of care recipients who reported quality of life through each completion mode of the QOL-ACC (self-completion, interviewer facilitated completion or proxy-completion), scored against the five categories: 'Excellent' (care recipients who score between 22–24), 'Good' (care recipients who score between 19–21), 'Moderate' (care recipients who score between 14–18), 'Poor' (care recipients who score between 8–13), 'Very poor' (care recipients who score between 0–7).

Frequency of Data Collection
90 days
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
90
Reporting Methods

Reported at national, state, remoteness (www.gen-agedcaredata.gov.au/Topics/Quality-in-aged-care/Residential-Aged-Care-Quality-Indicators-latest-release) and facility level (www.myagedcare.gov.au/find-a-provider/search-by-name), every quarter. Included within an overall five-star quality rating program (n=5 QIs). Contributes to Star Ratings (care recipients with one or more pressure injuries).

Reporting Frequency
Quarterly
Reporting Frequency in Days
91
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Evidence Source

Department of Health and Aged Care. National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program (QI Program). 2023 www.health.gov.au/our-work/qi-program

Link to Measurement Tools

Hutchinson et al. (2021) QOL-ACC User Guide: Basic information on how to use the QOL-ACC instrument, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.

Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
Yes
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
12 March 2025