Normalisation and 'normal' ageing: the social construction of dependency among older people with learning difficulties
By: Walker, Alan.
Contributor(s): Walker, Carol.
Series: Disability & Society 13 (1) 1998: 125-142.Publisher: 1998Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): AGEING | FAMILY LIFE | HEALTH SERVICES | INTEGRATION | NORMALISATION | SOCIAL SERVICES | UNITED KINGDOMSummary: This paper discusses the new phenomenon of the survival into old age of the increasing numbers of people with learning difficulties. This raises issues. In the UK health and social services for older people and for people with learning difficulties have followed quite different paths. One has been based on a limited, age discriminatory view of 'normal'ageing; the other has focused on a potentially liberating concept of normalisation. This distinction has been challenged by the advent of older people with learning difficulties, which is raising questions such as, what is the meaning of normalisation in older age? The alternative of social integration is proposed as a basis for organising health and social services for both older people and those with learning difficulties.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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This paper discusses the new phenomenon of the survival into old age of the increasing numbers of people with learning difficulties. This raises issues. In the UK health and social services for older people and for people with learning difficulties have followed quite different paths. One has been based on a limited, age discriminatory view of 'normal'ageing; the other has focused on a potentially liberating concept of normalisation. This distinction has been challenged by the advent of older people with learning difficulties, which is raising questions such as, what is the meaning of normalisation in older age? The alternative of social integration is proposed as a basis for organising health and social services for both older people and those with learning difficulties.
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