About

Health quality of life is participation in daily life tasks, activities, and roles in a manner that contributes to individual, familial, societal, and global health and well-being. A bio-psycho-social approach is taken with respect to processes and outcomes of health quality of life.

In the Health Quality of Life Lab at Tufts, researchers and students from different disciplines conduct research in a creative and collaborative environment. The lab’s work focuses on developing knowledge about health quality of life in community living among adults living with disability and aging. Our current focus is on how people with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners manage social living: including participating in activities in the home and community; working with health care providers to manage symptoms and disability; and exchange social support among family, friends and others in their home and community.

Principal Investigator

Linda Tickle-Degnen

Professor Emerita

Occupational therapy, social psychology, culture and health care stigma, health quality of life, social participation, Parkinson's disease and conditions across lifespan that affect nonverbal and verbal communication, evidence-based practice. I study health quality of life and define it as participation in daily life tasks, activities, and roles in a manner that contributes to individual, familial, societal, and global health and well-being. A bio-psycho-social approach is taken with respect to processes and outcomes of health quality of life. I work with researchers and students from different disciplines and countries to conduct research in a creative and collaborative interdisciplinary environment.