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 332 | PDF Downloads 112 Word Downloads 113 Text Downloads 120

Forums

Disability & Aging: International Perspectives

Katie Aubrecht, Tamara Krawchenko
Abstract 861 | PDF Downloads 341 Word Downloads 126 Text Downloads 133

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

Amanda Grenier, Meredith Griffin, Colleen McGrath
Abstract 1888 | PDF Downloads 647 Word Downloads 148 Text Downloads 189 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 8547 | PDF Downloads 122 Word Downloads 130 Text Downloads 144

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

Hailee M. Gibbons
Abstract 4406 | PDF Downloads 1675 Word Downloads 216 Text Downloads 287

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

Gregor Wolbring, Bushra Abdullah
Abstract 541 | PDF Downloads 182 Word Downloads 140 Text Downloads 138

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

Yvonne R. Teems
Abstract 513 | PDF Downloads 160 Word Downloads 169 Text Downloads 141 Bio Downloads 0

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

Francesca Rickli
Abstract 561 | PDF Downloads 143 Word Downloads 134 Text Downloads 175

The Becoming Subject of Dementia

Katie Aubrecht, Janice Keefe
Abstract 806 | PDF Downloads 258 Word Downloads 159 Text Downloads 178

Creative Works

A Thousand Threads

Elaine Stewart
Abstract 353 | PDF Downloads 87 Word Downloads 135 Text Downloads 126 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 218 | PDF Downloads 85 Word Downloads 115 Text Downloads 130

Disability Studies Dissertation Abstracts v12i23

Abstract 337 | PDF Downloads 114 Word Downloads 122 Text Downloads 130