What is your Quality of Life like?

Quality of Life – How content people are with their lives and with the environment in which they live

Quality of Life varies

• from place to place

• from family to family

• from person to person

Contentment includes many things:

• How happy we are

• How well we are (health)

• How well off we are

• How safe and secure we feel

• How many friends we have

• how many things there are for us to do

• how we like the place where we live

• and many more ….

Measuring Quality of LifeTraffic congestion

Air pollution

crime

Litter / graffiti

Race relations

Community spirit

Affordable housing

cultural

Jobs / work

Health services

ChildrenTeenagers

adults

elderly

disabled

shops

schools

Public transport

Open space / parks

Sports and leisure amenities

PLENARY ACTIVITY

• The next slide shows four images …

• CAN you classify them into two pairs? (locations?)

• CAN you suggest one problem affecting the ‘quality of life’ for a person living in each of the places?

• CAN you suggest one advantage improving the ‘quality of life’ for a person living in each of the places?