The EXCELC project in Finland : The main descriptive findings from surveys using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT)

Abstract

Exploring Comparative Effectiveness and Efficiency in Long-term Care (EXCELC), an international research project, started in 2015 to explore the comparative effectiveness and efficiency of non-institutional long-term care in Austria, England and Finland. The EXCELC project has applied the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) to measure social care-related quality of life of old service users, their carers and the effectiveness of non-institutional long-term care (www.pssru.ac.uk/ascot/tools). This methodological report describes the process of translating the ASCOT quality of life measures from English into Finnish, the methods of collecting survey data in 12 Finnish regions, and the main descriptive findings from the surveys.