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Quality of Life

Quality of Life. James A. Lenker, MS, OTR/L, ATP OT 541 University at Buffalo. Origins. Achieving complete physical, mental, and social well-being (World Health Organization, 1947) Lyndon Johnson, Great Society speech – 1964 Implied domain: Standard of living. QOL – One definition.

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Quality of Life

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  1. Quality of Life James A. Lenker, MS, OTR/L, ATP OT 541 University at Buffalo

  2. Origins • Achieving complete physical, mental, and social well-being (World Health Organization, 1947) • Lyndon Johnson, Great Society speech – 1964 • Implied domain: Standard of living

  3. QOL – One definition • “Quality of life is the multidimensional evaluation, by both intrapersonal and social-normative criteria, of the person-environment system of the individual.” (M. Powell Lawton, 1991) • Collection of dimensions • Observed and self-report • Objective and subjective • Attribute of the P-E system

  4. Powell’s Model

  5. Critique of Health-RelatedQuality of Life (Lawton, 1997) • There is more to QOL than health • Other life aspects increase QOL • Measures are prone to biased responses if people are asked to attribute QOL to their health

  6. So, What Do We Do? “In summary, the user who wishes to measure QOL must first and foremost make his or her own choice about what is included in QOL. My four-sector model provides some guidance for such a choice.” (Lawton, 1997)

  7. Canadian Centre of Health Promotion • QOL is, “the degree to which the person enjoys the important possibilities of his or her life" (Renwick & Brown, 1996). • Humanistic-existential model • Humans have needs • Physical, psychological, and spiritual • Affiliation and self-actualization • 3 Elements of their Model • Being, belonging, and becoming. • Renwick, R., & Brown, I. (1996). Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation: Conceptual Approaches, Issues, and Applications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

  8. Principles of Renwick & Brown • QOL is multidimensional • QOL is bio-psycho-social • QOL appraisal must be holistic • QOL components are common to all people and the human condition, i.e. not different for people with disability • Disability doesn’t imply increased or decreased QOL • QOL meaning is individual

  9. Renwick and Brown (con’t.) • Being is comprised of physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions; • Spiritual • Belonging is comprised of social, community, and ecological dimensions • Community • Becoming is constituted by personal growth, leisure, and practical. • Growth

  10. Renwick & Brown’s Conceptualization

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