Early onset ageing and service preparation in people with intellectual disabilities: Institutional managers' perspective

Jin Ding Lin, Chia Ling Wu, Pei Ying Lin, Lan Ping Lin, Cordia M. Chu

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Although longevity among older adults with intellectual disabilities is increasing, there is limited information on their premature aging related health characteristics and how it may change with increasing age. The present paper provides information of the institutional manager's perception on early onset aging and service preparation for this population. We used purposive sampling to recruit 54 institutional managers who care for people with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan. The present study employed a cross-sectional design using a self-administrative structured questionnaire that was completed by the respondents in November 2009. The results showed that more than 90% of the respondents agreed with earlier onset aging characteristics of people with ID. However, nearly all of the respondents expressed that the government policies were inadequate and the institution is not capable of caring for aging people with ID, and more than half of them did not satisfy to their provisional care for this group of people. With regard to the service priority of government aging policy for people with ID, the respondent expressed that medical care, financial support, daily living care were the main areas in the future policy development for them. The factors of institutional type, expressed adequacy of government's service, respondent's job position, age, and working years in disability service were variables that can significantly predict the positive perceptions toward future governmental aging services for people with ID (adjusted R 2 =0.563). We suggest that the future study strategy should underpin the aging characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities and its differences with general population to provide the useful information for the institutional caregivers.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)188-193
頁數6
期刊Research in Developmental Disabilities
32
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 1月 1 2011
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 發展與教育心理學
  • 臨床心理學

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