ArticleJournal of intellectual disabilities : JOID2021
Ambivalence among staff regarding ageing with intellectual disabilities: Experiences and reflections.
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- Healthy ageing for older adult people with intellectual disability: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for older people with intellectual disabilities and the role of support staff: A systematic review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2022Pooled it
- The Meaning of Ageing and the Educational Intervention "Good Life in Old Age": An Ethnographic Study Reflecting the Perspective of Older Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Transitions for older people with intellectual disabilities and behaviours that challenge others: A rapid scoping review.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2023Article
- Ageing people with intellectual disabilities and the association between frailty factors and social care: A Swedish national register study.Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID · 2022Article
- Community-Based Support and Social Services and Their Association with Frailty Factors in Older People with Intellectual Disability and Affective and Anxiety Disorders: A Swedish National Population-Based Register Study.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- Health care utilisation among older people with Down syndrome compared to specific medical guidelines for health surveillance: a Swedish national register study.BMC health services research · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study explores the experiences and reflections of staff in intellectual disability (ID) services concerning ageing with ID. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 staff members in group homes and daily activity centres. The findings showed that the staff were uncertain about the signs of ageing in people with intellectual disabilities; they compared the life conditions of these people with conditions in older people without intellectual disabilities. Their emphasis on an active lifestyle was very strong. The staff members also mentioned uncertainty about how to facilitate assistive devices and whether 'ageing in place' was the best solution. The overall theme was manifested as ambivalence where notions of older people with intellectual disabilities seemed incompatible with notions of old age in general and could be explained by the theoretical concept of age coding. The findings of this study indicate the need to provide education about ageing to staff working in ID services.
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