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The ultimate goal of health intervention is to increase quality of life (QOL). Quality of life of older adults is a major concern. However, few studies have considered the conceptualization of QOL, limiting research and interventions in this field.
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In this entry, we (1) explore perceptions and lived experience of community-dwelling older adults about their QOL in regard to human functioning, including (1) verbal data collection, (2) reading of data, (3) division of data into units of sense, (4) organization and reformulation of original data in the disciplinary language, and (5) synthesis of results. Themes emerged from the content of the interviews and were only afterwards organized and renamed according to the human functioning conceptual model components, i.e., personal factors, social participation, and environment, according to the conceptualization of QOL from Dijkers (2005). A qualitative study was undertaken with community-dwelling older adults having...
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Levasseur, M. (2023). Human Functioning Components of Older Persons. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_3985
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