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Normalisation and 'normal' ageing: the social construction of dependency among older people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(1), February 1998, pp.125-142.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the new phenomenon of the survival into old age of the increasing numbers of people with learning difficulties. This raises both theoretical and practical policy issues. Argues that the concept of normalisation is flawed when applied to older people. The alternative of social integration is proposed as the basis for organising health and social services for both older people and those with learning difficulties.
Older people with learning difficulties leaving institutional care - a case of double jeopardy
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol, RYAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(2), March 1996, pp.125-150.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
People with learning difficulties are now surviving into old age and more and more of them are being resettled from long-stay hospitals. This article examines some of the key barriers facing, and dilemmas involved in, the provision of community-based services to this newly emerging user group. Recent field research on older people with learning difficulties who have been resettled into the community is used to illustrate the challenges facing service providers. Particular reference is made to the impact of age discrimination and traditional differences between service specialisms. Shows that both official definitions of need in old age and the aspirations of the service responses to those needs have been artificially constructed in very narrow terms, especially when compared with the principled approach to service provision for younger people with learning difficulties.
Age or disability? Age-based disparities in service provision for older people with intellectual disabilities in Great Britain
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(1), March 1998, pp.25-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article concentrates on the role of service providers in prescribing artificial limits to the potential of older people with intellectual disabilities. Argues that the key factor in this social creation of dependency is the age discriminatory attitudes held by some service providers and which distinguish between the different British service cultures in provision for older people and those for people with an intellectual disability. Thus the behaviour of care staff and the assumptions implicit in social policies can result in practices which reinforce dependency rather than empowerment.
Levelling the odds
- Author:
- WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.5.96, 1996, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The needs of older people with learning difficulties are often overlooked. The author argues that if service providers can find ways of meeting the challenge, the can lead full lives.