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Policy into practice: growing older with a learning disability
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 21(3), 2003, pp.71-78.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Identifies the major support needs for older people with learning difficulties. Goes on to discuss the impact of two recent policy documents in England: the 'National Service Framework for Older People' and 'Valuing people: a new strategy for learning disability in the 21st Century' on the lives of older people with learning difficulties.
Well, we’ve all got to get old haven’t we?:reflections of older people with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 37(3/4), 2002, pp.7-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The findings of a qualitative study of the perceptions and experiences of a select group of aging older people with intellectual disabilities are reported. The study data were drawn from the collective responses of 242 questionnaires completed by a group of older people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their carers in the United Kingdom. The study was designed to provide qualitative insight into the lives of a select group of older adults from the vantage point of their perceptions and memories. Results suggest that the physical changes associated with aging do not appear to be a major concern for older people with ID. What is more of concern are other changes, only some of which are related to aging (such as, changes in the services and family circumstances).