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Later life and the social model of disability: a comfortable partnership?
- Author:
- OLDMAN Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 22(6), November 2002, pp.791-806.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reviews the arguments for and against closer links between later life and disability studies. The article focuses on housing policies for older people, and highlights how older people have to submit to the medical model of later life if they receive health or social care services. The argument against an association between later life studies and disability studies is that later life is an immensely diverse experience, much of it nothing to do with disability. The article argues for a specific application of the social model of disability to the situation of older people with impairments who receive services. Concludes with examples of the value of the social model of disability at both the policy and political levels.
Housing and home in later life
- Authors:
- HEYWOOD Frances, OLDMAN Christine, MEANS Robert
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 185p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
At the heart of all policies of supporting people to live and thrive into old age lies the concept of home. Yet there is a vacuum where policies concerning housing issues should be, and such policies as exist are profoundly ageist and often based on a medical model of disability. The authors of this volume share a commitment to see the issues of later life and housing re-thought to address more adequately the diverse needs and preferences of a group who constitute around one quarter of the population. The book has three strands; to uncover the theoretical origins of accepted practice; to present a critique of the present policies and to consider new theories, ideas and methodologies for achieving user centred changes.