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Definitions: Family quality of life, Quality of life, and Family.
In the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities, quality of life improves when a person’s basic needs are met and improves further when people have opportunities to pursue the important possibilities of their lives and to achieve their goals within major life settings. Yet it is very often small and non-expensive aspects that improve quality of life, and these may be unique to individuals and families. Family quality of life is concerned with the degree to which individuals experience their own quality of life within the family context, as well as with how the family as a whole has opportunities to pursue its important possibilities and achieve its goals in the community and the society of which it is a part.
The structure of a family may differ markedly both within a society and among societies. Family quality...
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Brown, R.I., Brown, I. (2014). Family Quality of Life. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1006
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