title: The development of a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of older people to end-of-life issues (AEOLI).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop an end-of-life attitudes questionnaire for use in a large community-based sample of older people.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nominal groups and standardization of questions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighteen older people, ten academics and five specialist palliative care health professionals were involved in nominal groups. Thirty older people took part in initial pilot work and a further 50 were involved in reliability testing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 27-item attitudes of older people to end-of-life issues (AEOLI) questionnaire.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In modern times, death and dying predominantly occurs among older people and yet we know very little about older people's attitudes to end-of-life care. The AEOLI questionnaire can be used in large scale surveys to elicit attitudes on end-of life issues considered important by older people and health care professionals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College, London, UK. m.blanchard@medsch.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Catt
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Addington-Hall
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zis
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blizard
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*