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WENDY ELLIOTT: Community requires quality of life

Engage Nova Scotia’s Danny Graham spoke in Wolfville recently after an invitation from the Wolfville and Area Inter Church Council.

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The venue was L’Arche Homefires headquarters, so he tells the audience about his son Patrick and their nightly ritual. Patrick has Down syndrome and each night his father settles him into sleep by lying down together.

Danny refers to Patrick, who is 37, as his greatest teacher. The lawyer and former provincial Liberal leader says their dream is a society where all people can live their best lives from cradle to grave.

Danny brings up a huge circle on the nearby screen. In the centre of that wide circle sits “quality life,” but he notes there are many nations that would place prosperity as a country’s focus. However, 83 per cent of Nova Scotians call quality of life important.

In measuring happiness globally, there are strong correlations between economic growth since the Second World War and life satisfaction. Increasingly, however, researchers taking a closer look at this trend are noting countries that spread the benefits of economic growth to a wider circle of society to ensure fewer residents fall between the cracks, on average, have higher life satisfaction.

Scandinavian countries, which generally show up at the top of life satisfaction measurements, have paid attention to everyone.........

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