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Quality of Life: An Opportunity to Reorganise Services Within a Person Centred Approach to Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2015

Roy I. Brown
Roy I. Brown*
Affiliation:
Flinders University, Australia
*
Roy Brown, School of Special Education and Disability Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Email: Roy.Brown@flinders.edu.au
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Abstract

This paper examines defining features and principles of quality of life as discussed in the literature on disability. It is suggested that many features of such a model require examination and changes to some of our approaches to rehabilitation, and professional values. It is also argued that the concept has serious implications for research, and opens up new ways of viewing aspects of methodology. Finally, the article suggests that quality of life as formulated in the paper has implications beyond disability and its acceptance challenges policy and management practices as viewed within an economic rationalist framework.

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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