Drawing on the three key relations in the capabilities approach (Sen, 1985) to welfare economics and using panel data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Aging, this paper illustrates how the capabilities approach to welfare economics can be used to understand wellbeing in older age....

Rationale: Cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) are a major cause of death and disability. A meta-analysis found that stroke severity (p<0.001) was a predictor of QoL, after controlling for elicitation methods, respondents, and QoL scales. However, studies assessing the impact of CVD on QoL often omit minor strokes and transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs), which are more difficult to recruit, making it difficult to assess its true impact on the population. Objectives: This study assesses the impact of TIA and stroke, and their severity, by examining the predictors of QoL one-year after the event, including previous QoL, using data from a population-based study. Methodology: Data were obtained from the Oxford Vascular study (OXVASC), a population-based cohort of >90,000 individuals in Oxfordshire, UK. OXVASC identified 284 patients with a first or recurrent CVD event during April 2002, to March 2003. QoL was assessed using the...</0.001)>