the main goal of the development plans is to create livable environment, better quality of life and residential satisfaction. thus, the city managers desire to achieve this goal and plan a livable city for the people through the strategies, policies and intra-organizational programs, as well as making interaction with other influential administrations on the development of the city. as well as ...

the quality of life (qol) has been de.ned as ‘‘a person’s sense of well-being that stems from satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the areas of life that are important to him/her’’.  age was also signi.cantly associated with several functional limitations such as illness, and physical restrictions. the concept of ‘‘resilience’’ refers to successful adaptation that unfolds within a context of si...

social cognition is defined as the capacity to generate, perceive and interpret and responses to the dispositions, intentions and behaviors of other people. it includes different specific cognitive processes that underlie social interactions. four domains of social cognition are named theory of mind (also known as mentalizing), emotion recognition, social perception and attributional style. anx...

Quality of life is a multidimensional concept in determining the adding of life to years. The quality of life is influenced by social, economic, psychological domains which influence and are significant to older people. These domains vary according to the individual’s life characteristics including social and personal circumstances. The aim of this article is to be informative and to provide a ...

background : in order to support cancer patients, nurses need to identify different physio-psycho- social needs of patients using a holistic approach. focusing on quality of life (qol) is congruent with the philosophy of a holistic approach in nursing. the main aim of this research study thus was to identify the level of agreement between cancer patients and nurses about cancer patients' qol. m...

The United States has a mortality disadvantage relative to its political and economic peer group of other rich democracies. Recently it has been suggested that there could be a role for social policy in explaining this disadvantage. In this paper, we test this "social policy hypothesis" by presenting a time-series cross-section analysis from 1970 to 2010 of the association between welfare state...