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245 1 0 _aQuality of Life in Old Age
_h[electronic resource] :
_bInternational and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives /
_cedited by Heidrun Mollenkopf, Alan Walker.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2007.
300 _aX, 260 p.
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490 1 _aSocial Indicators Research Series,
_x1387-6570 ;
_v31
505 0 _aUnderstanding Quality of Life in Old Age -- International and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Quality of Life in Old Age: Conceptual Issues -- Quality of Life in Older Age: What Older People Say -- Key Aspects of Quality of Life -- Well-being, Control and Ageing: An Empirical Assessment -- Social Resources -- Economic Resources and Subjective Well-Being in Old Age -- Quality of Life in Old Age, Inequality and Welfare State Reform: A Comparison Between Norway, Germany, and England -- Environmental Aspects of Quality of Life in Old Age: Conceptual and Empirical Issues -- The Environments of Ageing in the Context of the Global Quality of Life among Older People Living in Family Housing -- Perceived Environmental Stress, Depression, and Quality of Life in Older, Low Income, Minority Urban Adults -- Ageing and Quality of Life in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Sociological Appraisal -- Ethnicity and Quality of Life -- Health and Quality of Life -- Care-related Quality of Life: Conceptual and Empirical Exploration -- Conclusions and Outlook -- Quality of Life in Old Age: Synthesis and Future Perspectives.
520 _aThis book started its life during a symposium we organised on Quality of Life in Old Age at the Fifth Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) in Frankfurt in July 2003. We are extremely grateful to Alex Michalos for sponsoring that session, encouraging us to use the symposium presentations as the basis for a book and for his support during the commissioning and editing process. We are also very grateful to the authors of this volume for the prompt delivery of their manuscripts and responses to our editorial comments. Finally our special thanks to Marg Walker for her expert and efficient preparation of the manuscript for publication. Heidrun Mollenkopf Alan Walker Heidelberg Sheffield ix SECTION I UNDERSTANDING QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLD AGE ALAN WALKER AND HEIDRUN MOLLENKOPF 1. INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLD AGE Conceptual issues Quality of life (QoL) is a multidimensional, holistic construct assessed from many different perspectives and by many disciplines. Moreover, the concept of QoL can be applied to practically all important domains of life. Thus, QoL research has to include social, environmental, structural, and health-related aspects, and be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. This holds even more when QoL in old age is the focus because ageing itself is a multidimensional process.
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650 0 _aGeriatrics.
650 0 _aMedical research.
650 0 _aBehavioral sciences.
650 0 _aAging.
650 0 _aSociology.
650 0 _aQuality of life.
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650 2 4 _aSociology, general.
650 2 4 _aQuality of Life Research.
650 2 4 _aBehavioral Sciences.
650 2 4 _aGeriatrics/Gerontology.
650 2 4 _aAging.
700 1 _aMollenkopf, Heidrun.
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700 1 _aWalker, Alan.
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