Women with Disabilities Aging Well: A Global View [Paperback]

Patrick Noonan Walsh (Author), Barbara LeRoy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

What do women with developmental disabilities experience as they age and what can service providers and researchers learn from their stories? That question is the focus of this exceptional book, which weaves informative research with the oral histories of more than 160 women in eighteen countries. Emphasizing that disability is not a disease, the authors use their research and the personal stories they collected to explore contributing factors to healthy aging and suggest how professionals can help women with disabilities live lives of dignity, respect, and community participation. Readers will review illuminating statistics and discover how women with disabilities around the world manage the everyday issues they face, including economic factors such as securing employment, gaining economic control, and financing living arrangements personal issues such as grooming, mobility, and support systems health and nutrition recreation relationships with family members and friends overall well being and quality of life disability policies and programs that influence all these factors With this expertly stitched quilt of common themes and experiences, readers will have the cross-cultural perspective and research-based facts they need to help ensure healthy aging for women with disabilities and guide future research and policy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company; 1 edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557667152
• ISBN-13: 978-1557667151
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,747,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, December 14, 2004

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This review is from: Women with Disabilities Aging Well: A Global View (Paperback)

Walsh and LeRoy go beyond the parameters of a typical research study as they share the experiences and the realities of women from around the world (18 countries to be exact) in a way that is informative and compassionate. Situating aging in a global web of social programs and public policy, the authors delve into the issues that matter most. Using a case study approach to introduce each topical chapter, the authors first allow women to tell their stories, thereby providing space to women who have been marginalized for the greater portion of their lives. This in itself is remarkable and commendable. The book is also rigorously academic, citing and adding to research on health, income, employment, family relationships, friendships, leisure, quality of life, and others for people with and without disabilities. This book is definitely an indispensable resource and staring point for further research in each field of aging, gender, and disability studies.