Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal - Volume 12 Issue 2 & 3

Population aging is taking place in nearly all countries across the globe. Within current research and policy, the relationship between disability and aging is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Disability is assumed to be a product of unsuccessful aging, and aging as an obstacle to living well with a disability. This special issue of The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) features eight original articles that analyze how disability and aging appear within research and policy in Canada, the United States, Australia and Switzerland. The articles in this international collection use interdisciplinary perspectives to explore the relationship between disability and aging in its complexity. They expose and challenge age and disability related myths and misconceptions and reconsider why global population matters.

Published: 2016-09-01

Editorial

Old and Disabled: Disabled and Old

Megan Conway
Abstract 335 | PDF Downloads 112 Word Downloads 117 Text Downloads 121

Forums

Disability & Aging: International Perspectives

Katie Aubrecht, Tamara Krawchenko
Abstract 870 | PDF Downloads 344 Word Downloads 135 Text Downloads 135

Aging and Disability: The Paradoxical Positions of the Chronological Life Course

Amanda Grenier, Meredith Griffin, Colleen McGrath
Abstract 1914 | PDF Downloads 653 Word Downloads 160 Text Downloads 191 Untitled Downloads 0 Untitled Downloads 0

Securing Personal Input from Individuals Aging with Intellectual Disability: Do Differing Methodologies Produce Equivalent information?

Stuart Wark, Miranda Cannon-Vanry, Marie Knox, Marie Parmenter, Rafat Hussain, Matthew Janicki, Chez Leggatt-Cook, Meaghan Edwards, Trevor Parmenter
Abstract 8634 | PDF Downloads 125 Word Downloads 133 Text Downloads 147

Compulsory Youthfulness: Intersections of Ableism and Ageism in “Successful Aging” Discourses

Hailee M. Gibbons
Abstract 4472 | PDF Downloads 1712 Word Downloads 222 Text Downloads 291

Coverage of Aging Well of Individuals Aging with a Disability in Canadian Newspapers: A Content Analysis

Gregor Wolbring, Bushra Abdullah
Abstract 547 | PDF Downloads 184 Word Downloads 142 Text Downloads 141

‘My Body Feels Old’: Seniors’ Discursive Constructions of Aging-as-Disabling

Yvonne R. Teems
Abstract 518 | PDF Downloads 160 Word Downloads 176 Text Downloads 144 Bio Downloads 0

'No Longer Disabled' – Reflections on a Transitional Process Between Disability and Aging in Switzerland

Francesca Rickli
Abstract 568 | PDF Downloads 146 Word Downloads 138 Text Downloads 178

The Becoming Subject of Dementia

Katie Aubrecht, Janice Keefe
Abstract 810 | PDF Downloads 260 Word Downloads 164 Text Downloads 182

Creative Works

A Thousand Threads

Elaine Stewart
Abstract 358 | PDF Downloads 91 Word Downloads 140 Text Downloads 128 A Thousand Threads Image 1 Downloads 0 A Thousand Threads Image 2 Downloads 0

Notes from the Field

Working Group: “Reframing Interventions in Mathematics Education: Critical Perspectives”

James Sheldon
Abstract 219 | PDF Downloads 85 Word Downloads 118 Text Downloads 132

Disability Studies Dissertation Abstracts v12i23

Abstract 341 | PDF Downloads 114 Word Downloads 124 Text Downloads 132