Quality Of Life And Older PeopleMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 01/09/2004 - 131 páginas This book reviews the way that older people talk about their quality of life and how this differs from the ways that younger people, researchers and scientists, policy makers and professionals discuss it. The book challenges the traditional approaches to the meaning and measurement of quality of life in older people by placing older people’s accounts at the centre. It draws on a range of behavioural and social science knowledge to present a new way of thinking and understanding about quality of life and older people. |
Índice
Chapter 01 What is quality of life? | 1 |
Chapter 02 Talking about quality of life | 11 |
Chapter 03 Environment and quality of life | 34 |
Chapter 04 Quality of life and the postmodern world | 55 |
Chapter 05 Explaining quality of life | 74 |
Chapter 06 Assessing quality of life | 86 |
Chapter 07 Rethinking quality of life | 99 |
References | 111 |
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Back cover | 132 |
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