Participants expounded on their perceptions of QoL as depending on environmental conditions (work, finances), perceived usefulness of life (to other people such as family), appreciation of life (contented with oneself), ability to cope with life (good health, stigma, disclosure and social support) and satisfaction with life in general.
"It is not for the executive or the judicial branches of government," he argued, "to evaluate the quality and usefulness of life and, based upon that assessment, to determine that a citizen's life is not worth preserving".
The original Stanford "object" of creating "usefulness in life," though affirmed, was said to be insufficient.
Jane and Leland Stanford said in their founding grant that the university, rather than becoming an ivory tower, would "qualify its students for personal success, and direct usefulness in life".
This work shows the usefulness of life cycle assessment for assessing design strategies that could improve the sustainability of microirrigation equipment.
In this study, the usefulness of life cycle assessment (LCA) and a matrix method as tools for identifying the key environmental issues of a product system were examined.
After you passed through the sliding train doors and entered the portal of the opera house (a couple of doors really), most likely the brain estimated each time that the usefulness, shelf life, of the information has expired, been proven correct each time and slowly diminished its recall ability.
'Well-being' is here defined as a eudemonic state in which the individual experiences positive attachment, a sense of meaningfulness and usefulness in life.
This research supports the benefits of this approach over 'treatment as usual' adding new empirical evidence to our existing knowledge of the usefulness of life review reminiscence work (Haight et al., 2006; Morgan & Woods, 2010).
Given the nature of critical care, difficult decisions often need to be made about the usefulness of life-supporting treatments, in terms of not only the probability of survival but also the quality of life associated with survival [ 3].
