Quality of Life: The Elder LifeCare Foundation - Proprietary System of Understanding

Quality of life is goal seeking incentive based behavior

• Behaviors that achieve incentives are enabled, strengthened and maintained by consequences.
• Behaviors that achieve incentive consequences are known as striving.

Achievement of life sustaining incentive is a state of fulfillment known as thriving.

• Patterns of behavior that result in continuous thriving are called livelihood.
• Livelihood does not result in equal access to life sustaining resources.

Perceived differences of patterns of success give rise to competition.

• Pathways to achievement are revealed by role models
• Actions imitate role models in the pursuit of opportunities to thrive.
• The life fulfilling energy of striving is sustained by competitive actions seeking limited but constant supply of achievement opportunities.

Self-reliance is incentive seeking pattern of independent striving behavior.

• Self-reliance is driven by need to achieve fulfillment (state of livelihood supported by thriving).
• Self-reliance does not result in equality of thriving.

Prosperity is livelihood achieved by a stream of self-reliant striving behavior that results in an observable, uniform state of thriving.

• Perceived differences in levels of prosperity maintain the competitive energy of striving behaviors in pursuit of role models.
• Life is about striving to achieve a state of prosperity that sustains continued existence and consistently achieve fulfillment in a state of competitive thriving.

Quality of life is enabled by self-reliant striving behaviors.

• Quality of life is the continuous, self-reliant action aimed at achievement of incentives that acquire value through learned association with life sustaining resources and outcomes.
• Quality of life is striving to thrive