Whose Quality of Life Is It Anyway? Some Problems with the Emerging Quality of Life Consensus.

Hatton, Chris

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ERIC Number: EJ566307

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Whose Quality of Life Is It Anyway? Some Problems with the Emerging Quality of Life Consensus.

Hatton, Chris

Mental Retardation, v36 n2 p104-17 Apr 1998

Argues that there are insuperable problems in assessing subjective indicators of quality of life and that this approach should be abandoned. Also notes this approach may serve to extend the license of services to exert control over all facets of a person's life. (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Life Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Social Indicators, Well Being

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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