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Peer reviewedHand, Jennifer E. – Mental Retardation, 1993
A New Zealand study investigated the prevalence, health status, and service needs of people with mental retardation born before 1940. Of 1,063 people identified, 42% resided in institutions, 7% with family, 13% in nursing homes, and 38% in community-based residential facilities. Additionally, 75% received regular medication, and 75% had at least…
Descriptors: Adults, Drug Therapy, Human Services, Incidence
Peer reviewedLevine, Sarah L. – Journal of Education, 1987
Reviews life cycle theories of developmental psychology and examines their applications in addressing the needs of adults who work in schools. Structural changes are needed if schools are to be responsive to the developmental needs of adults. (BJV)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Assistant Principals, Developmental Psychology
Download full textGordon, Elizabeth – 1990
This report outlines emerging paradigms of service for mentally retarded adults emerging from a nationwide search for innovative programs and practices. It was prompted by the consistent finding of a Pennsylvania longitudinal study that mentally retarded school completers tend to live indefinitely with parents or guardians. The study found the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adults, Community Programs, Delivery Systems
McGivney, Veronica – 2000
The groups least represented in education and training provision in the United Kingdom are those who are also the most socially and economically disadvantaged: long-term unemployed people; low-wage manual workers; people with poor literacy and no qualifications; members of some black and Asian communities; older adults; homeless people; single…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Students
