ABSTRACT
Mainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed of people ageing with disability, and they have also been largely overlooked by both disability and ageing policies and service systems.
The Handbook on Ageing with Disability is the first to pull together knowledge about the experience of ageing with disability. It provides a broad look at scholarship in this developing field and across different groups of people with disability in order to form a better understanding of commonalities across groups and identify unique facets of ageing within specific groups. Drawing from academic, personal, and clinical perspectives, the chapters address topics stemming from how the ageing with disability experience is framed, the heterogeneity of the population ageing with disability and the disability experience, issues of social exclusion, health and wellness, frailty, later life, and policy contexts for ageing with disability in various countries.
Responding to the need to increase access to knowledge in this field, the Handbook provides guideposts for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers about what matters in providing services, developing programmes, and implementing policies that support persons ageing with long-term disabilities and their families.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Framing the Ageing with Disability Experience
part II|78 pages
Diverse Experiences of Ageing with Disability
part III|58 pages
Forwarding Social Inclusion
chapter 16014|8 pages
Community Participation and Engagement for Persons Ageing with Physical Disability
chapter 15|17 pages
Design for One is Design for All
chapter 17|9 pages
Internalised Ageism and the User Gaze in Eldercare
part IV|104 pages
Intellectual Disability as a Case Example
chapter 21|14 pages
Retirement for People with Intellectual Disability
chapter 23|11 pages
Ageing with Intellectual Disability in Sweden
chapter 24|14 pages
Towards Untangling the Ageing Riddle in People with Intellectual Disabilities
chapter 26|10 pages
Dementia Care for Persons Ageing with Intellectual Disability
part V|78 pages
Policies to Support Persons Ageing with Disability