인구와사회협동연구소

How People with Intellectual Disabilities Experience getting old in Korea_신유리 

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This study aims to explore how people with intellectual disabilities experience getting old in korea. The date is composed with 28 middle-aged people with intellectual disabilities, families, personal assistants and group home workers of complementary interviewees for plentiful dates and to deeply understand this phenomenon. Using the date obtained for these interviews, interviewee’s various perceptions and experiences of being old were analyzed and five meaning categories for experience getting old were identifies: Earlier aging occurred on body and mind/ Daily separation and stigma, who remain still lonely due to it/ Feeling of happiness at the moment and hoping/ Parents being old and family’s aggravated burdensome/ As separation from family lives, considering to the disability institution. The findings of this research can be used as foundational material in development of aging with disability policies and the improvement of social service, achieving respect, autonomy and inclusion in later life.

Keywords: people with intellectual disabilities, getting old, disability and aging, qualitative research