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The art and science of quality of life: bringing together mind, body, society and the physical world — (based, in part, on an address delivered at the 1995 NSEZ Symposium)
Author(s)	Margaret Stineman
Journal title	Loss, Grief & Care, vol 9, nos 1/2, 2001
Pages	pp 171-182
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Service, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Rehabilitation ; Quality of life.
Annotation	The challenge in rehabilitation medicine is to meld both the qualitative arts and the quantitative sciences of practice. This article attempts to show how this is done, beginning with a poem to illustrate how disabilities and recovery might affect an patient's life. The quantitative mathematical model called the RAM index (Recovery of ADS Mobility) is then used to predict functional recovery based on the patient's initial clinical characteristics. The arts and science approach are combined through an environmentally-based model called "Spheres of self-fulfilment". These spheres show how disabilities and abilities are the result of interactions between personal capacity or impairments of body and mind and the surrounding physical and social environments. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030616204 A
Classmark	LM: F:59
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