In the coming years, a growing number of people with an intellectual disability will reach retirement age. In line with the change of paradigms, the leading ideas of participation, inclusion and self-determination have become the principles of the ideological and conceptual framework in social services for people with disabilities. However, in many places convincing concepts and arrangements of support for elderly people with intellectual disabilities are lacking, particularly beyond institutionalized concepts. The research project "Lebensqualität inklusiv(e)" (quality of life included) tries to bridge this gap. On the base of an estimation of the demographic development for this group of people, models of best practice have been documented and evaluated focusing on living conditions and the special requirements for elderly people with intellectual disabilities in order to gather ideas for the development of arrangements of support. The results show that an interdisciplinary cooperation is indispensable.
Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Beitrag thematisiert die Versorgung demenziell veränderter Menschen in der häuslichen umgebung. Bekanntermaßen lebt der großteil der demenziell veränderten Menschen -trotz immer schlechter werdender struktureller und familialer rahmenbedingungen -in der häuslichen umgebung und wird primär von Angehörigen versorgt. Welche Merkmale diese unterstützungskonstellationen empirisch aufweisen, wird in einem aktuellen Forschungsprojekt untersucht.Abstract: the article deals with the care of elderly people with dementia in their domestic environment. As is widely known, the majority of elderly people with dementia-despite deteriorating structural and familial conditions-still lives in their domestic environment and is primarily cared of by their family (relatives, next of kin). this research project examines empirically the characteristics of sustainable and supportive settings.in diesem Beitrag wird bewusst der terminus der "demenziellen Veränderung" dem der "demenziellen erkrankung" vorgezogen, ohne damit die tragweite der Veränderung für die Betroffenen und die Angehörigen bagatellisieren zu wollen. Vielmehr wird der terminus bevorzugt, um Stigmatisierungstendenzen entgegenzuwirken (vgl. zur begrifflichen Auseinandersetzung gronemeyer und Wißmann 2008).s. graumann () Abteilung Münster, Katholische hochschule nordrhein-Westfalen,
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