Elderly people´s definition of quality of life

Flávio M. F. Xavier, Marcos PT Ferraz, Norton Marc, Norma Escosteguy, Emílio Hideyuki Moriguchi

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry · 2003 · 279 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

Possibly, for the elderly subjects a negative quality of life is equivalent to loss of health and a positive life quality is equivalent to a greater range of categories such as activity, income, social life and relationship with the family, categories which differed from subject to subject. Therefore, health seems to be a good indicator of negative quality of life, though an insufficient indicator of successful elderliness.

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