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Implementation of 'improving the life chances of disabled people': Age Concern's response
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
'Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People' states that, by 2025, disabled people should have full opportunities and choices to improve their quality of life and be respected and included as equal members of society.
Older persons with mental retardation/developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- PARKINSON Charlotte B., HOWARD Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 25(1/2), 1996, pp.91-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A relatively new population of persons who are both elderly and mentally retarded/developmentally disabled (MR/DD) is rapidly growing in the United States, as well as in many other countries. Describes this population, their service needs and how these are being addressed.
Whose quality of life? a comparison of measures of self-determination and emotional wellbeing in research with older adults with and without intellectual disability
- Authors:
- SEXTON Eithne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 41(4), 2016, pp.324-337.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: Measures of quality of life (QOL) must be appropriate for specific groups but comparable across groups. In this paper, the authors compared how QOL is measured in research with older adults with and without an intellectual disability (ID). Methods: Measures used in 2 population studies of older adults with and without ID (Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing [IDS-TILDA], and The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing [TILDA]) were examined. Framed by Schalock’s Quality of Life Framework, conceptual content of measures of emotional wellbeing and self-determination were compared. The acceptability and concurrent validity of IDS-TILDA measures were evaluated. Results: The same measures of emotional wellbeing were identified in both surveys. However, measures of self-determination captured different aspects of the construct. Concurrent validity between self-determination and emotional wellbeing measures in IDS-TILDA was weak. Conclusions: Research with adults with and without ID is limited by the nature of current inclusive QOL measures: Instruments are required that have adequate conceptual coverage and are comparable across groups but appropriate and feasible to use. (Edited publisher abstract)
How do people with learning disabilities experience and make sense of the ageing process?
- Authors:
- NEWBERRY Gayle, MARTIN Carol, ROBBINS Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43(4), 2015, pp.285-292.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: This article draws on the first author's doctoral research study which explores how people with learning disabilities experience and make sense of the ageing process and old age. Materials and Methods: Seven people with learning disabilities aged 60 or more were interviewed, and their accounts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. This approach allows the participant's lived experience to be explored in detail. Participants' accounts were analysed individually, followed by a group analysis. This article presents the results of the group analysis, illustrated by quotes from individuals. Results: The master themes arising from the group analysis were as follows: quality of relationships is central to enjoyment of life, including subthemes on the importance of affection and companionship, distress at lack of closeness and anxiety about ability to satisfy others; powerlessness; needing a sense of purpose; and making sense of getting older, including subthemes on reactions to changes with age, life review and looking to the future. Conclusions: Clinical implications of the findings include the need for services to support older people with learning disabilities in maintaining friendships and meaningful activities. This study demonstrates that some older people with learning disabilities can engage in a process of life review and raises the possibility that learning disability services could play a useful role in facilitating this process. Understanding of the ageing process varied between participants and tended towards a negative, stereotypical view of ageing. The findings suggest that people with learning disabilities could benefit from psychoeducation on the ageing process to aid them in making sense of the changes they experience as they get older. (Edited publisher abstract)
Quality of life in group homes and older persons' homes
- Authors:
- HIGGINS Laura, MANSELL Jim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(3), September 2009, pp.207-212.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
A non-equivalent comparison group design was used to compare the quality of life of 59 people in three groups; older people without an intellectual disability living in older people's homes (n = 20), older people with an intellectual disability living in older people's homes (n = 19) and older people with an intellectual disability living in intellectual disability homes (n = 20). Data were collected on participant characteristics, adaptive behaviour and three aspects of quality of life; community involvement, participation in domestic living and choice making. The three groups were comparable in terms of gender, ethnicity and additional impairments but the older people without an intellectual disability were older and had more adaptive skills than the other groups. Older people with an intellectual disability experienced better quality of life outcomes in terms of participation in meaningful activity and community access when they lived in intellectual disability homes compared with older people's homes. It was not possible to achieve reliability on the measure of choice-making. This study provides some evidence to suggest that older people with an intellectual disability may be best served in intellectual disability homes rather than older people homes and that it is an area of research which needs further exploration.
The effect of reminiscence group work on life satisfaction, self-esteem and mood of ageing people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- VAN PUYENBROECK Joris, MAES Bea
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 22(1), January 2009, pp.23-33.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study evaluates the effects of reminiscence group work on the subjective well-being of ageing people with intellectual disabilities. The content of the successive group work sessions was manipulated as follows: a control-phase with three 'current topics' sessions, an experimental phase with six 'reminiscence' sessions and finally three 'current topics' sessions. Life satisfaction, perceived self-competence and mood were measured by questionnaires, filled in by the participants and direct support workers. A quasi-experimental pre-test–post-test design (n = 41) did not detect any changes in life satisfaction and perceived self-competence. For mood, a quasi-experimental ABA-design (n = 41) did not yield an experimental treatment effect, but a significant increase in scores was observed over time. Personality characteristics 'extraversion' and 'emotional stability', but not memory specificity were found to be significant covariates for the mood scores. Although the study's design did not allow the researchers to confirm the effect of reminiscence group work, the analysis nonetheless revealed some useful indications for further research. Also, interviews conducted before and after the programme resulted in positive appraisals of the programme as a worthwhile and meaningful activity for ageing people with intellectual disability.
Pennine Court: remodelling sheltered housing to include extra care for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- LATTO Shena, CROOKES Victoria
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Case Study describes the development of extra care housing opportunities for older people with learning difficulties within a conventional sheltered housing scheme in Salford. It details the key stages and features of the development process, and shares the lessons learned from this in the hope that they will be useful to other commissioners and providers of housing and support services considering/involved in: remodelling sheltered housing; developing extra care for people with learning difficulties; integrating provision for people with learning difficulties with mainstream provision for people as they age.
Getting older: feeling good
- Authors:
- BRADLEY Alice, et al
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This easy read booklet about growing older by people with learning disabilities can be used with individuals or groups and enhanced with other activities.
Death does not become us: the absence of death and dying in intellectual disability research
- Author:
- TODD Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 38(1/2), 2002, pp.225-239.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The social issues of death, dying and bereavement represent important but neglected research areas, and such issues need attention both for practical reform and for deciphering what living with intellectual disability entails. The difficulties which life poses for people with intellectual disabilities may well persist in the times before and after death. As research issues they offer not only potential practical significance, but also a means of determining the social status and value of people with intellectual disabilities. This paper reviews the issues of death and dying from the viewpoint of sociological research and seeks to identify the ways death and dying have been treated within the research literature on living with intellectual disability. It is suggested that these issues have been discounted with some important consequences for the way intellectualdisability is perceived.
Later life planning training programme: a pre-test assessment in Israel
- Author:
- LIFSHITZ Hefziba
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 37(3/4), 2002, pp.87-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Data are provided on the outcome of an assessment on a knowledge of aging andfutures planning tool administered to 38 adults, age 40 and older, with an intellectual disability living in community residences in Israel. The subjects participated in the Later Life Planning Training Programme (LLPTP) which is designed to teach people with intellectual disability about later life planning issues, and increase their participation in choice making. Comparisons were made between two samples, one Israeli and one American. Differences were found on three areas of the LLPTP: Choice-making, Life Satisfaction, and Social Support.