Caring for an adult who has acquired a disability or developed a major disease or illness provides another context of informal care work. The care relationship must be negotiated as the boundaries of the disability are gradually ascertained. In this chapter, we reflect on the way the ...
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This paper engages with the emerging disciplinary clash between 'care' and 'independence' within disability studies by examining the geography of home care for young adults with intellectual disabilities. The care system as a whole is viewed as central to disablist structures within disability studies...
Given different approaches to service delivery in Canada and the United States and the lack of data available regarding Canadian samples, this study focused on four areas: (a) the major concerns of 80 aging parents of adults with developmental disabilities living in Ontario; (b) their support ne...
Themed events are held twice each month, encouraging socialization, friendship, and a sense of community for adults with disabilities that bring together upwards of 300 members.“It is just amazing to see the growth of our members … how they’re able to socialize and make new friends each ...
This study reports on a series of interviews undertaken with mothers of children and young adults with learning disabilities and a history of challenging behaviours. The interviews were supplemented by documentary data from clinical and other notes in order to provide a more detailed view of the ...
Substance use disorders in young adults with and without LD: predictive and concurrent relationships. This article reports on young people with and without disabilities (LD) and (SUD). Participants were assessed for LD at ages 12 and 19 and for SUD and at a... JH Beitchman,B Wilson,L ...
Initiatives to advocate for social welfare of children with disabilities are taking place and the government is aware of that. The major aim of this study was to explore challenges parents or guardians experienced while caring for their mentally ill children. Specifically, it aimed at identifying ...
Mental health services for adults with learning disabilities Services for people with learning disabilities have been transformed since the late 1960s by the move from institutional to community care. (Learning disabilities is the term currently used in the UK in preference to mental retardation, .....
Family Care for Older Adults With Disabilities: Toward More Targeted and Interpretable Research () Citation Context ...ends, many old people need somebody who cares about them. This leads us to one of the many domains of caring about older ... Joseph,E.,Gaugler,... - 《International ...