Starość i starzenie się osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną – wprowadzenie w problematykę
OLD AGING AND AGING WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY – INTRODUCTION IN PROBLEMATICS

Summary/Abstract: Until recently, it has been considered that intellectual disability does not concern adults and is only limited to children and youth. In scientific publications of the previous century one can read that these people do not exceed the age of 40, and even reaching that age is an exception. The reality has changed with the progress of medicine and the improvement of medical care quality. Higher life expectancy is a general tendency also among people with long-lasting disability. As a result, for the first time in history, we are dealing with a population of old people with intellectual disability. The objective of this article is the initial research into and introducing the problem of old age and ageing of intellectually disabled people, as a starting point for the author’s further research in this scope. In the text, the notions of intellectual disability and special geragogy are presented, involutional changes connected with the process of ageing of intellectually disabled people are discussed as well as ageing models of this subpopulation.

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