Quality of institutional life
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During the past three or four decades, concern over the quality of life of old people living in a variety of nondomestic settings has been a key feature of research in social gerontology. Indeed any discussion of the definition of quality of life as it relates to successful aging finds that much of the literature is concerned with life within institutional environments rather than domestic ones. In many studies, quality of life has been used as a measure of the outcome of interventions. In the main, researchers working within institutions have not been concerned with the (quality of the) lives of individual people, but with a collective response often couched in terms of satisfaction or well-being to living in a particular environment. There is often some confusion between the use of the term 'quality of life' and 'quality of care', the latter relating to part of the process of institutional living. This distinction, between the lives
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