Key goals and indicators for successful aging of adults with early-onset disability

LaPlante, Mitchell P.

doi:10.1016/j.dhjo.2013.08.005

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“…Low probability of disease and diseaserelated disability in people with an intellectual disability Key indicators for successful ageing in intellectual disability include good physical and mental health, healthy lifestyles and behaviours, social interaction and productivity, life satisfaction, and access to quality healthcare [17]. A strategy for successful ageing in intellectual disability is to focus on modifiable or even preventable conditions that have been found to be predictors of successful ageing in healthy older adults like smoking and avoiding obesity.…”

Section: Key Pointsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Successful ageing for people with an intellectual disability

Reppermund¹,

Trollor²

2016

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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With modifications for people with an intellectual disability, the concept of successful ageing can be used as a template for development of strategies to improve health and wellbeing for people with an intellectual disability as they age. Targeted programmes focused on health promotion and prevention of age-related morbidities is required. There is a need for policies addressing positive ageing, including social participation and maximizing community participation. Appropriate and ongoing education for people with an intellectual disability and their carers on healthy living in areas of physical, social, and cognitive activity, nutrition and avoidance of risk factors is essential.

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Section: Key Pointsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Successful ageing for people with an intellectual disability

Reppermund¹,

Trollor²

2016

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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“…This is often attributed to the demographic trend that it has only been in past decades that groups of people with extensive or lasting disabilities have been able to live long lives and reach what is thought of as "old age" (Agree, 2014). Due to advancements in welfare and medicine, many people with earlyonset disabilities can now live longer than in the past (Naidoo, Putnam & Spindel, 2012;LaPlante, 2014). This group, as well as younger generations of people with disabilities, now have the possibility to "experience the benefits and challenges of ageing in adulthood", which may include higher education, family building, career, and an active old age (LaPlante, 2014).…”

Section: Ageing With Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The disability processes related to ageing are also well-researched, but not the pathways of the people growing old with these disabilities (Agree, 2014). Thus, recent works that try to fill this gap refer to the important distinction between research on "ageing with disability", which is still underexplored, and research on "ageing into disability" that has characterized the majority of previous works on impairments and high age (Yorkston et al, 2010;Washko, Campbell & Tilly, 2012;LaPlante, 2014;Monahan & Wolf, 2014). A literature search I conducted in Scopus on "ageing with disability" showed that while earlier texts primarily dealt with the medical dimensions of disability such as rehabilitation, recent publications, especially in the past three years, have begun to look at "ageing with disability" as a modern phenomenon in itself with biographical, social, and policy dimensions.…”

Section: Ageing With Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Due to advancements in welfare and medicine, many people with earlyonset disabilities can now live longer than in the past (Naidoo, Putnam & Spindel, 2012;LaPlante, 2014). This group, as well as younger generations of people with disabilities, now have the possibility to "experience the benefits and challenges of ageing in adulthood", which may include higher education, family building, career, and an active old age (LaPlante, 2014). However, they may also face special difficulties regarding, for instance, accelerated effects of ageing or accessing care (LaPlante, 2014;Gilson & Netting, 1997).…”

Section: Ageing With Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This group, as well as younger generations of people with disabilities, now have the possibility to "experience the benefits and challenges of ageing in adulthood", which may include higher education, family building, career, and an active old age (LaPlante, 2014). However, they may also face special difficulties regarding, for instance, accelerated effects of ageing or accessing care (LaPlante, 2014;Gilson & Netting, 1997). Persons ageing with disabilities also seem to belong to an unclear category, and as such may experience double stigmatization (Thorsen, 2003).…”

Section: Ageing With Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ageing and Caring as Couples with Disabilities

Torgé¹

2014

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In gerontology and care research, care is often studied in ways in which older people and people with disabilities are portrayed as dependent on the care of younger or non-disabled people. This thesis, in contrast, studies care provided by people that are both old and have physical disabilities.The thesis explores how care is actualized and experienced by older couples who both have long-term or lifelong disabilities and investigates the implications of this caring in the couples' lives. Nine couples between 60 and 84 years old, of whom most had had disabilities for over 20 years, were interviewed as dyads; a process also conjoint interviewing. These interviews were analysed using grounded theory methods of coding and constant comparison. The results of the thesis confirm that it can make sense to be a carer even if one also needs care in everyday life. Meanwhile, the analysis also considers how conjoint interviewing resulted in relational and performative data about mutual care. The study helps explain the significance helping a partner despite having other sources of formal support and the difficulties of providing this help oneself. Finally, in a study whose participants are growing old together with disabilities, the results also show that the couples could regard themselves as ageing advantageously compared to other groups.Through its focus on caring for and by older people with disabilities, this thesis is at the intersection of social gerontology, care research and disability studies. However, from its interdisciplinary perspective, it can also challenge established discourses in these fields. Specifically, the study problematizes the absence of a care discourse in disability studies and the mostly age-and functioncoded ways in which care is discussed in care research. The thesis problematizes dichotomies used in understanding care, such as roles of carers/care receiver, caring/servicing and dependence/independence. It also challenges established ways of thinking about successful ageing. Lastly, the thesis contributes to the still growing literature on ageing with a disability.

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