Ageing with disability

Jeppsson-Grassman, Eva; Whitaker, Anna

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447305224.001.0001

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“…Hence, in many communities, to plan for specific policies for disability and aging has been emphasized 15,17 . Iran is a young country and more than half of its population is under 30 years old.…”

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ABSTRACT:Aging is among the phenomena more commonly discussed in world health in recent years. Disability is a good indicator to measure health status in the aging population. Accordingly, the primary objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of disability and its relationship with demographic characteristics of the elderly in Zahedan city in Iran in 2016. This is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study. Using two-stage random sampling, 400 seniors were selected in Zahedan and were studied. A researcher made questionnaire was used to collect demographic information and disability study instruments included WHODAS -36 items without time code. Collected data were analyzed using the SPSS version 16 software using the chi-square test. Of 400, 218 individuals were female and182ones were male and the mean age of the participant's was 73.21 ± 6.82 years old. The overall prevalence of disability among the elderly in Zahedan was 62.3%. The prevalence of disability had a significant relationship with age, education, occupation and income level (p < 0.05), whereas no relationship was observed between disability with gender and marital status (p > 0.05). The highest prevalence of disability was in the areas of understanding, communication and getting around, whereas the lowest cases were in the areas of getting along and living with others, and self-care. According to the findings of this study, welfare policies and providing service packages for the elderly of higher age, lower education, and lower income level as well as the unemployed and disabled elderly can help both the individuals and the community.

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Community Participation of Older Adults with Disabilities

Raymond

Grenier

Hanley

2014

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Contemporary discourses on ageing promote active participation as an ideal framework from which to encourage and support older people's health, independence and life satisfaction. But is such a vision of participation meaningful and/or accessible to all older adults? This paper explores how people ageing with disabilities understand the notion of social participation, juxtaposing their accounts with key trends found in ageing policy. Insights from individual interviews and a collective writing project conducted with older adults in Quebec who were living with lifelong disabilities (mobility, vision or hearing) reveal the tensions that exist between policy guidelines and participant narratives. Results highlight three crucial conditions with regard to the community participation of people ageing with disabilities: self-determination, creating an inclusive environment and identity integration. Together, these themes reveal that ageing policies on participation should be revisited in order to improve opportunities for meaningful involvement. Our discussion suggests the need to widen the definition of participation so that it can be used to validate a variety of life options, guarantee structural and cultural access to participative settings and offer social spaces capable of supporting evolving identities, lived experiences and the collective circumstances of ageing with disabilities.

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Participation amongst people ageing with neuromuscular disease: a qualitative study of lived experiences

Møller

Martinsen

Werlauff³

et al. 2021

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The term "everyday life" covers all human activities situated in and across a range of spaces and contexts such as home, work, educational institutions and recreational arenas (Schraube & Højholt, 2016).Engaging in everyday life is vital for humans (Law, 2002). Everyday life is where we make our worlds and where our worlds make us.Persons living with neuromuscular disease (NMD) strive to live everyday life as others do and engage actively in everyday life (Boström & Ahlström, 2004). Advances in diagnostics and treatment of NMD-related disabilities warrant focus on coherence in everyday life for people ageing with NMD (Gibson et al., 2009). | BACKG ROU N DNeuromuscular disease is an overall term covering a wide range of incurable disorders affecting muscle function. The course of NMD subtypes varies. Some subtypes progress quickly, causing rapid decrease in physical function and comprehensive impairment. Other

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Ageing with disability

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Participation amongst people ageing with neuromuscular disease: a qualitative study of lived experiences

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