COLOUR & LIGHT DESIGN: AMBIENCE AS AN ANSWER TO THE PROBLEMS OF A HEALTHY COLLECTIVE HOUSING.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Caumon ◽  
G. Zissis ◽  
C. Caumon ◽  
E. Bécheras ◽  
C. Infantes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Collective Housing ◽  
The Right ◽  
Analysis Protocol

For several months now, the global pandemic that we are experiencing has highlighted that the quality of the habitat has a proven impact on our quality of life. In this context, it becomes fundamental to take into account the needs of each individual. The aim of this study is to show the benefits of designing the right atmosphere for the place and the needs of all inhabitants. Designing the ambience of a space leads us to anticipate the environment that will influence the subject who lives there. The design of the colour and light atmosphere contributes to improving the quality of life by ensuring a certain comfort in their daily activities. Through a case study, we will present an analysis protocol to examine a visual environment. The data collected will allow designers to move towards a more sensitive and adapted design of lighting and colour applied to collective housing.

scholarly journals Euthanasia and suicide: a medical and social discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
V. N. Ostapenko ◽  
I. V. Lantukh ◽  
A. P. Lantukh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Adequate Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Strong Explosion ◽  
The Right

Annotation. The problem of suicide and euthanasia has been particularly updated with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a strong explosion of suicide, because medicine was not ready for it, and the man was too weak in front of its pressure. The article considers the issue of euthanasia and suicide based on philosophical messages from the position of a doctor, which today goes beyond medicine and medical ethics and becomes one of the important aspects of society. Medicine has achieved success in the continuation of human life, but it is unable to ensure the quality of life of those who are forced to continue it. In these circumstances, the admission of suicide or euthanasia pursues the refusal of the subject to achieve an adequate quality of life; an end to suffering for those who find their lives unacceptable. The reasoning that banned suicide: no one should harm or destroy the basic virtues of human nature; deliberate suicide is an attempt to harm a person or destroy human life; no one should kill himself. The criterion may be that suicide should not take place when it is committed at the request of the subject when he devalues his own life. According to supporters of euthanasia, in the conditions of the progress of modern science, many come to the erroneous opinion that medicine can have total control over human life and death. But people have the right to determine the end of their lives while using the achievements of medicine, as well as the right to demand an extension of life with the help of the same medicine. They believe that in the era of a civilized state, the right to die with medical help should be as natural as the right to receive medical care. At the same time, the patient cannot demand death as a solution to the problem, even if all means of relieving him from suffering have been exhausted. In defense of his claims, he turns to the principle of beneficence. The task of medicine is to alleviate the suffering of the patient. But if physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia become part of health care, theoretical and practical medicine will be deprived of advances in palliative and supportive therapies. Lack of adequate palliative care is a medical, ethical, psychological, and social problem that needs to be addressed before resorting to such radical methods as legalizing euthanasia.

Ethical Aspects of Talking to a Patient

2016 ◽  
pp. 203-235
Author(s):  
Roman Ossowski ◽  
Paweł Izdebski
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Results Of Treatment ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
The Subject

A very important role in the diagnosing process is played by the conversation with a patient, which should always have a diagnostic-therapeutic character. The subject of interest of this paper are the relations between medical personnel and patients. The chapter aimed to explain the application of main ethical theories in conversation with patients as a diagnostic-therapeutic instrument. As an example, a case study illustrates basic ethical principles of such a conversation. It as an instrument of diagnosis and therapy retained its value despite introducing numerous methods of diagnosis based on the findings of modern physics or electronics. In our view, the conversation should always aim at the benefit of the patient and the results of treatment as well as sustaining patient's subjectivity and hope for achieving a higher quality of life.

scholarly journals Analysing the Expert Judgment of a Rehabilitation Counsellor: A Case Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Athanasou ◽  
Esther Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Expert Judgment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Properties Of Information

AbstractThis case study analysed the expert judgments of a rehabilitation counsellor. The counsellor was given 37 accident victims' self-ratings of health, energy, daily activities, self-esteem, personal relations, financial resources and living conditions. The accident victims also rated their own overall quality of life as poor or good. The expert was required to make judgments about whether the quality of life was poor or good in each case and matched the ratings of the accident victims in 64.8% of cases. The results suggest that under conditions of uncertainty and complexity an expert may be more accurate than chance but still fail to use the properties of information to their maximum advantage.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS IN BIOETHICAL RESEARCH (QUALITY OF LIFE CONCEPTION)

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Withdrawing Treatment ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Manifest Rationality

The topic of happiness is one of the oldest in philosophical researches. Now it is the subject of interest, in particular, for bioethicists, scientists who are looking for the principles of proper treatment of human life, health, and death. The concept of happiness acquires special significance in the quality of life bioethical conception. The author of the article outlines the origins of the understanding of happiness adopted by the supporters of this conception, as well as gives examples of its application by them (above all by P. Singer, L. Nordenfelt, and J. McMahan). The quality of life bioethical conception adopted utilitarian vision of happiness, developed mainly by J. Bentham and J. S. Mill. According to it, happiness is identified with benefit or pleasure, which can be measured and maximized. In the XX century utilitarians began to consider autonomy – the ability of a person to manage his or her own life and death – as an important element of happiness. The influence of the preference utilitarianism is also noticeable. In obedience to it they see happiness in the ability of person to realize his or her rational and autonomous desires. The medical conditions that does not allow it are interpreted as lack of happiness. Thus, they justify not only the admissibility of withdrawing treatment that doesn’t give the expected result, but also of euthanasia. Killing a person, in terms of the quality of life conception, may not be a lack of happiness if the other alternative is to continue living in conditions that do not allow a person to realize his or her preferences, or does not coincide with his or her ideas of a decent life. The lives of persons who do not manifest rationality and autonomy are interpreted as inhuman, as wrongful, and the person as deprived of the right to happiness. Critics of the quality of life conception point to the subjectivity of the criteria by which happiness is measured. The second reproach is the reference to the absence of a hierarchy of values. That is why they give pleasure and absence of suffering too much importance.

scholarly journals AYURVED APPROACH TO ENDOMETRIOSIS – A CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 4271-4277
Author(s):  
Divya Pawar ◽  
Sameer Gholap
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Uterine Cavity ◽  
Lower Abdominal Pain ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Chief Complaints ◽  
The Subject

Endometriosis is the most upcoming disease that affects the quality of life of millions of women and their families worldwide. It is one of the obscure and captivating benign gynaecological disorders defined by implantation of functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. Endometriosis is associated with a broad range of symptoms including Dysmenorrhoea, Dyspareunia, Chronic intermenstrual pelvic pain, and Infertility. The prevalence of Endometriosis in women of Reproductive age is 6-10%. It can be compared as a syndrome complex of Paripluta Yonivyapada in Ayurveda. Thus, Vata evum Pitta shaman treatment along with regimen is given in it. Aim and Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of Shodhana Chikitsa as Yog Basti, Uttarbasti and Shamana Aushadhi, in the management of Endometriosis. Materials and Methods: It is the single arm, open labelled case study of the subject of 36 yrs. age with Endometriosis who has been treated with Shodhana Chikitsa as Yog Basti, Uttarbasti and Shamana Chikitsa simultaneously. Observation and Result Chief complaints of Patient i.e. Adhodarashula (Lower abdominal pain) and Kashtartava (Pain during menstruation) were relieved. USG reports confirms and substantiates the clinical symptom free evidence. Conclusion: The selected treatment protocol i.e. Shodhana Chikitsa as Yog Basti, Uttarbasti and Shamana Aushadhi, are found very effective in the management of Endometriosis.

Rehabilitation Judgments With Incomplete Information: A Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A Athanasou
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Judgment Accuracy ◽  
Accident Victim ◽  
Increase In Accuracy ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Everyday Living

AbstractThis case study outlines the accuracy of a rehabilitation counsellor in judgments of the quality of life of actual cases comprising accident victims. Up to seven cues of information relating to health, energy, daily activities, self, personal relations, money and living conditions were provided to the counsellor. He/she had to decide whether the clients considered their own quality of life to be poor or good. The counsellor was consistent in his/her judgments (test–retest reliability = .79). The counsellor was accurate in 60% of cases, but this is only marginally better than an automatic decision that every accident victim is dissatisfied with his/her quality of life. The judgment accuracy was suboptimal. It was influenced by a reliance (93%) on satisfaction with personal relationships, whereas basic issues such as money for everyday living were more important in predicting quality of life. It did not appear that increasing the amount of information led to an increase in accuracy. The correlation between accuracy and the number of cues was very low (-.160).

Misophonia: An Evidence-Based Case Report

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-690
Author(s):  
C. S. Vanaja ◽  
Miriam Soni Abigail
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Case History ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Management Option ◽  
Pure Tone Audiogram

Purpose Misophonia is a sound tolerance disorder condition in certain sounds that trigger intense emotional or physiological responses. While some persons may experience misophonia, a few patients suffer from misophonia. However, there is a dearth of literature on audiological assessment and management of persons with misophonia. The purpose of this report is to discuss the assessment of misophonia and highlight the management option that helped a patient with misophonia. Method A case study of a 26-year-old woman with the complaint of decreased tolerance to specific sounds affecting quality of life is reported. Audiological assessment differentiated misophonia from hyperacusis. Management included retraining counseling as well as desensitization and habituation therapy based on the principles described by P. J. Jastreboff and Jastreboff (2014). A misophonia questionnaire was administered at regular intervals to monitor the effectiveness of therapy. Results A detailed case history and audiological evaluations including pure-tone audiogram and Johnson Hyperacusis Index revealed the presence of misophonia. The patient benefitted from intervention, and the scores of the misophonia questionnaire indicated a decrease in the severity of the problem. Conclusions It is important to differentially diagnose misophonia and hyperacusis in persons with sound tolerance disorders. Retraining counseling as well as desensitization and habituation therapy can help patients who suffer from misophonia.

Chronic Refractory Cough: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Siciliano
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Chronic Cough ◽  
Treatment Regime ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Old Adult ◽  
Language Pathology

This paper presents a successful behavioral case study in treatment of chronic refractory cough in a 60-year-old adult female. The efficacy for speech-language pathology treating chronic cough is discussed along with description of treatment regime. Discussion focuses on therapy approaches used and the patient's report of changes in quality of life and frequency, duration, and severity reduction of her cough after treatment.

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