limitation is the use of the QoL-AD among the carers.
This scale has not been validated for carers, although it
has been used in two previous studies [24, 25].
The strengths of the study are the relatively large
number of patients and carers, the use of standardized
assessment scales and the wide inclusion criteria of
home-dwelling patients who had the capacity to give informed
consent, which should indicate that they would
have the capacity to give reliable information on their
own perception of their QoL.