Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of LifeSubjective Well-Being After the Onset of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care

A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life: Subjective Well-Being After the Onset... [This paper analyses limitations in the quality of life of people in need of assistance or care. The focus of the analysis is the changes in satisfaction with life in general, health and household income before and after the onset of the need for assistance. There is a high risk of experiencing episodes of dependency on others in very old age. Those affected are mostly restricted in their mobility and, depending on the degree of their need for assistance, show low satisfaction levels. No evidence is found that people adapt to this unfavourable situation over time: neither life satisfaction nor health satisfaction returns to the former level. Health satisfaction begins to be affected at lower degrees of dependency than life satisfaction. On the other hand, the evaluation of the economic domain – indicated by satisfaction with household income – is not greatly affected by the need for personal assistance and care. The analysis is based on 27 waves of the German Socio Economic Panel Study.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of LifeSubjective Well-Being After the Onset of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 57)
Editors: Maggino, Filomena
Weick, Stefan
A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life — Jan 31, 2015
Download PDF
14 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-new-research-agenda-for-improvements-in-quality-of-life-subjective-rFJDLGF4An
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-15903-4
Pages
191 –204
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-15904-1_9
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This paper analyses limitations in the quality of life of people in need of assistance or care. The focus of the analysis is the changes in satisfaction with life in general, health and household income before and after the onset of the need for assistance. There is a high risk of experiencing episodes of dependency on others in very old age. Those affected are mostly restricted in their mobility and, depending on the degree of their need for assistance, show low satisfaction levels. No evidence is found that people adapt to this unfavourable situation over time: neither life satisfaction nor health satisfaction returns to the former level. Health satisfaction begins to be affected at lower degrees of dependency than life satisfaction. On the other hand, the evaluation of the economic domain – indicated by satisfaction with household income – is not greatly affected by the need for personal assistance and care. The analysis is based on 27 waves of the German Socio Economic Panel Study.]

Published: Jan 31, 2015

Keywords: Old age; Disability; Subjective well-being; Life satisfaction; GSOEP

There are no references for this article.