Fernandez-Petite, Maria <br/><br/>
Quality of Life in Palliative Care: Patients’ Discourses and Representations 

 -  2008.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Diverse definitions of palliative care take up the idea that one of its aims is to enhance the quality of life rather than its duration. It is however not easy to define what quality of life is, as this notion rests on the diversity of the places where we live, our cultures, and the inter-individual variety of our life plans. Through a qualitative study, we will try to describe emerging content of palliative care patients’ representations of quality of life, and to identify environmental, familial, or social factors linked to modalities of this quality of life.