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In Pursuit of Meaningful Occupation: Employment and Occupational Outcomes for Older Irish Adults with an Intellectual Disability
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McCausland, Darren; McCallion, Philip; Brennan, Damien; McCarron, Mary – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Adults with an intellectual disability (ID) have much lower rates of employment than their counterparts without intellectual disability, which increases their risk of poverty and social exclusion. Differential treatment of people with intellectual disability in welfare and training policies suggests an expectation they will be passive…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Employment
Whose Quality of Life? A Comparison of Measures of Self-Determination and Emotional Wellbeing in Research with Older Adults with and without Intellectual Disability
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Sexton, Eithne; O'Donovan, Mary-Ann; Mulryan, Niamh; McCallion, Philip; McCarron, Mary – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2016
Background: Measures of quality of life (QOL) must be appropriate for specific groups but comparable across groups. In this paper, we compared how QOL is measured in research with older adults with and without an intellectual disability (ID). Methods: Measures used in 2 population studies of older adults with and without ID (Intellectual…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Well Being, Longitudinal Studies, Intellectual Disability