QUALITY OF LIFE IN OLD AGE AND THE CIVILIZING PROCESS
(HELENA BRANDAO VIANA)
Life quality is the group of social, political, economical, physical, psychological and cultural elements with worldwide validity, which contribute for the well-being of the population. Life quality is strictly related to the well-being concept and starts to be an individualized concept, as different social classes have different perceptions of what life quality is.
Life quality is a process. Through the historic and social development of civilizations, the life quality concepts have been changed. On the book Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process, we see the evolution of overall habits, such as hygiene practices and the way to behave at the dinner table, which before was taught only at the aristocracy and, on that civilizing process, starts to be disseminated to the inferior classes. Some facts brought by the civilizing process certainly also brought better life quality to the community as a whole; however, some changes provoked by the “civilization” made people more distant in their emotional relations, eliminating the spontaneousness of certain habits which were very common in the past and which are now highly discriminated and restricted to specific family environments.
Life quality as a process, suffers changes that includes multiples fields of well-being, as housing, work environment, health, education, culture, urban life habits, leisure. Life quality is, therefore, a multidimensional object of the social development that polarizes the ways of treating both the group of concrete realities, immediate and quotidian, and the group of the most diverse problems that appears long term. The concept of life quality, and what is understood of it, is changed not only on the ambit of historic-cultural transformations, but also on the different social levels.
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