Cost of technology. Every country realizes that resources are not unlimited and that the cost of medical care takes large portions of the society's resources. In some cases the expense of health care costs do not begin to match the growth of the economy to deal with those costs. Changes in health patterns. There are now large numbers of chronically ill people who can not be cured by even the most sophisticated technology.
Medical care can no longer decrease mortality as easily.
Thus people are beginning to demand that the quality of their lives be enhanced while living with a chronic illness. Definitions of Quality of Life Quality of life is defined in multiple ways and means different things to different people. This last definition takes a mathematical approach to quality of life and assumes that patients and policy makers will make rational decisions that have cost-benefit consequences. Most researchers agree that quality of life is complex and composed of multiple dimensions. This is the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society Virginia Henderson Library site that contains information about the nursing journal, On-line Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing.