Quality of Life: An Opportunity to Reorganise Services Within a Person Centred Approach to Disability

This paper examines defining features and principles of quality of life as discussed in the literature on disability. It is suggested that many features of such a model require examination and changes to some of our approaches to rehabilitation, and professional values. It is also argued that the concept has serious implications for research, and opens up new ways of viewing aspects of methodology. Finally, the article suggests that quality of life as formulated in the paper has implications beyond disability and its acceptance challenges policy and management practices as viewed within an economic rationalist framework.