Employment and retirement concerns for persons with developmental disabilities

Engagement in retirement: an evaluation of the effect of Active Mentoring on engagement of older adults with intellectual disability in mainstream community groups

“…Overall, community members from all three mainstream community groups responded favourably when approached to support the participants. Intriguingly, this reception contrasts with the literature on discriminatory attitudes by the general population (Hall 2005;Dykema-Engblade & Stawiski 2008). This finding also contrasts with statements of some participants in focus groups convened in the pre-intervention phase of the larger study (Bigby et al 2011) who thought that some members of mainstream seniors' groups may be against the idea of people with ID joining.…”

“…). This situation often leaves three plausible options for weekday activities: (1) remain at home without activity engagement and be socially isolated, (2) attend a disability‐specific day programme (Dykema‐Engblade & Stawiski ), or (3) be actively engaged in a mainstream community group for retirees, such as seniors' groups or specific interest groups such as a community garden.…”