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The jungle of quality of life
— mapping measures and meanings for elders | | Author(s) | Penny Hambleton, Sally Keeling, Margaret McKenzie |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 28, no 1, March 2009 |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing, March 2009 |
| Pages | pp 3-6 |
| Source | http://www.cota.org.au / http://www.blackwellpublishingasia.com |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Measurement ; Evaluation ; Qualitative Studies ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The literature on quality of life (QOL) can be described as a jungle: vast, dense and difficult to penetrate, especially for those entering the field without a specialist QOL background. While QOL as a term is entwined in an extensive body of work from many disciplines and covering diverse perspectives, it has been most extensively documented and operationalised within the domains of health-related socioeconomic drivers and is largely quantitative in nature. Subjective and qualitative measurement is less fully developed and documented. This review paper provides a map through the QOL literature by constructing a tabular framework to position the measures and meanings of QOL prior to undertaking a phenomenological study with older people. It concludes by arguing for attention to the further development of qualitative experiential measures specific to life-stage QOL for older people, having found these perspectives rarely visible. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090601214 A |
| Classmark | F:59: 3R: 4C: 3DP: 64A |
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