QUALITY OF LIFE

What is “Quality of Life”(QOL)? What do you understand about Quality Of Life? What parameters can be used to measure QOL? QOL is increasingly refered to in evaluating urban and rural areas, and in several other situations. Some definitions, models and more …I think QOL is a very important for us to maintain our living standard…These are some definitions about Quality of Life..

The best way of approaching quality of life measurement is to measure the extent to which people’s ‘happiness requirements’ are met – ie those requirements which are a necessary (although not sufficient) condition of anyone’s happiness – those ‘without which no member of the human race can be happy.’

– McCall, S.: 1975, ‘Quality of Life’, Social Indicators Research 2, pp 229-248

WHAT IS QOL? QOL may be defined as subjective well-being. Recognising the subjectivity of QOL is a key to understanding this construct. QOL reflects the difference, the gap, between the hopes and expectations of a person and their present experience. Human adaptation is such that life expectations are usually adjusted so as to lie within the realm of what the individual perceives to be possible. This enables people who have difficult life circumstances to maintain a reasonable QOL.

– Janssen Quality-of-life Studies

Quality of Life is tied to perception of ‘meaning’. The quest for meaning is central to the human condition, and we are brought in touch with a sense of meaning when we reflect on that which we have created, loved, believed in or left as a legacy.

– Frankl VE. ‘Man’s search for meaning.’ New York: Pocket Books, 1963

In quality of life research one often distinguishes between the subjective and objective quality of life. Subjective quality of life is about feeling good and being satisfied with things in general. Objective quality of life is about fulfilling the societal and cultural demands for material wealth, social status and physical well-being.

– Quality-of-Life Research Center, Denmark

The approach to the measurement of the quality of life derives from the position that there are a number of domains of living. Each domain contributes to one’s overall assessment of the quality of life. The domains include family and friends, work, neighborhood (shelter), community, health, education, and spiritual.

 – The University of Oklahoma School of Social Work

    

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