Quality of Life refers to subjective and objective aspects of well-being and satisfaction with life. Objectively, quality of life may refer to health status, economic status, and environmental quality. Subjectively, quality of life refers to the evaluation of one's status in life relative to one's expectations in life. Quality of Life as defined by this center includes attention to physical and psychosocial health and wellness, safety and prevention, spirituality, and productivity and participation concerns among people with, or at risk for disabilities and other exceptional populations. Health and Wellness are dynamic states of equilibrium between clients and their environments.
Health can vary on a continuum from optimal health to ill health.
Persons with disabilities or other special health needs may have limitations in functional and structural integrity of body systems. However, participation in life and the person's ability, willingness, and resources to meet and engage the environment may optimize health despite a disability or other special health needs. Safety and Prevention are keeping out of harms way. There are few statistics on either the safety needs of people with disabilities or the strategies to protect or empower this group. Prevention programs can be aimed a primary prevention of disability, secondary prevention including early detection of problems, or tertiary prevention through systems change.