书目名称 | Quality of Life in Old Age |
副标题 | International and Mu |
编辑 | Heidrun Mollenkopf (Senior Research Scientist (ret |
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概述 | Comprehensive, covers essential components of quality of life.International and multidisciplinary perspectives.Authors are leading experts in the field.First volume of this kind.Practical and theoreti |
丛书名称 | Social Indicators Research Series |
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描述 | This 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, str |
出版日期 | Book 20071st edition |
关键词 | Nation; age; aging; assessment; depression; environment |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5682-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7426-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-5682-6Series ISSN 1387-6570 Series E-ISSN 2215-0099 |
issn_series | 1387-6570 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |