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Quality of life after stroke
— developing meaningful life roles through occupation therapy | | Author(s) | Joyce Shapero Sabari |
| Journal title | Loss, Grief & Care, vol 9, nos 1/2, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 155-170 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Stroke ; Quality of life ; Occupational therapy ; Rehabilitation ; Adaption ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Quality of life (QoL) is a subjective and individualised description of a person's general sense of well-being. This article discusses quality of life and the assessment made after someone has experienced a stroke. The World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Impairment, Disability and Handicap (ICIDH)(1980) is used as a framework to view the effects of long-term disability and the factors that affect the quality of life. The article outlines how occupational therapy facilitates achieving QoL after a stroke. (JK/RH. |
| Accession Number | CPA-030616203 A |
| Classmark | CQA: F:59: LOH: LM: 5SA: 4C |
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