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RR 2015/251 Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research Edited by Alex C. Michalos Springer Dordrecht 2014 ISBN 978 94 007 0753 5 URL: www.springer.com/gb/book/9789400707528# otherversion=9789400707535 Last visited June 2015 £5,616 $7,050 Also available as a 10 vol. printed set (ISBN 978 94 007 0752 8 £4,680 $7,050) or as a print and electronic bundle (ISBN 978 94 007 0754 2 £5,850 $8,800)
Keywords Encyclopedias, Quality of life
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-06-2015-0143
With people living longer than ever before - for an amazing demonstration of this see 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats (Rosling, 2010) - an emerging focus of interest for researchers, governments and the general public is on ensuring that this increase in life expectancy is accompanied by an increase in the quality of life lived in later years.
This first edition of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research attempts to both identify the breadth of the field of "quality of life" and "Well-being" as well as explain its component topics. Identifying the breadth of a field such as this is...