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Ageing and health status in adults with intellectual disabilities: results of the European Pomona II study
- Authors:
- HAVEMAN Meindert, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 36(1), March 2011, pp.49-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
POMONA II was a European Commission funded public health project collecting information from 14 countries using a set of key health indicators specifically relevant for people with intellectual disabilities. This research focused on age-specific differences relating to environmental and lifestyle factors and the 17 medical conditions measured by the POMONA Checklist of Health Indicators. The article describes how information was collected using the POMONA Health Interview Survey and Evaluation Form from a sample of 1,253 participants in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It then presents the results of the analysis, with tables showing characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities in the study, frequency of social contacts with relatives or friends according to age, lifestyle risk factors in people with intellectual disabilities according to age, and general and age-specific prevalence rates of health problems. The authors discuss how healthy older adults with intellectual disabilities are with regard to lifestyle factors, and whether there are health disparities between older adults with and without intellectual disabilities. They note that some evidence of health disparities was found for older people with intellectual disabilities, particularly in terms of under diagnosed or inadequately managed preventable health conditions.
Health and ageing in Slovenia: literature review
- Authors:
- PAHOR Majda, DOMAJNKO Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 32(4), December 2008, pp.312-324.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The study aims to establish whether professional and scientific literature in Slovenia provides grounds for the integrated approach in care for the elderly. Literature review is used as the method of data collection and analysis. Relevant publications were searched for through the national electronic interdisciplinary bibliographic database. Data was collected twice, for the period from 1994 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2006, to establish the publishing trend. A chart is drawn, based on a distinction among three levels: disciplinary, multi-interdisciplinary and the level of integration. It outlines the conceptualization of elderly people’s health as shaped through selected literature, and another one exposes its changes in time. Results show the prevalent presence of the functionalist theoretical perspective on ageing and the bio-medical model of care for the elderly. The voice of the elderly is poorly acknowledged. Data testify to the lack of literature that would support the implementation of the integrated approach to the health of the elderly.
The elderly in Slovenia
- Author:
- MESEC Blaz
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 7(1), 2000, pp.43-53.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
Describes the situation of the elderly in Slovenia.