Focusing on the areas of life important to people inspires us to consider how our organisation influences a range of domestic, social, cultural, recreational, vocational, health and wellbeing outcomes for people with a disability. These life areas reflect the standards and values held within the Victorian community.

The Quality Framework identifies 16 life areas. These life areas are important to most people and are directly associated with the way wellbeing is measured for all Victorians. Each life area is defined by an outcome. Defining these outcomes enables a consistent understanding that the services we provide can support people with a disability to experience the same outcomes that are valued by the broader Victorian community.

These life areas can be used to develop or assess tools to make sure disability service providers measure what really counts - whether the services and supports provided make a difference to the lives of people with a disability.

Life areas	Outcome
Always learning	People with a disability experience lifelong learning and education
Being part of a community	People with a disability participate in the life of the community
Being independent	People with a disability experience individual choice and control over their life
Being safe	People with a disability experience physical and emotional safety and are free from abuse, neglect and avoidable injury
Building relationships	People with a disability experience healthy, constructive and respectful relationships
Choosing supports	People with a disability choose their own supports and contribute to determining the manner in which supports are provided
Communicating	People with a disability seek, receive and impart information, ideas, opinions and feelings through their preferred communication style
Doing valued work	People with a disability experience meaningful and rewarding employment with just and reasonable conditions
Exercising rights and responsibilities	People with a disability exercise human rights
Expressing culture	People with a disability experience a sense of cultural identity and belonging
Having fun	People with a disability experience a sense of social wellbeing through enjoyment of life and time for leisure and recreation
How to live	People with a disability experience an adequate standard of living through exercising control over their living circumstances
Looking after self	People with a disability experience the best possible physical, mental, emotional and social health
Moving around	People with a disability move freely in their environments and in the community
Paying for things	People with a disability experience an adequate standard of living through exercising control over finances
Where to live	People with a disability  experience an adequate standard of living through access to adequate and appropriately located housing