Aging, Rights and Quality of Life: Prospects for Older People with Developmental Disabilities. Edited by Stanley S. Herr and Germain Weber. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999, pp. 391, £38.00)
✍ Scribed by John Wattis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
This book focuses on the challenges in assisting older people with learning disabilities `not only to survive but to thrive'. It is not about mental health aspects of learning disability, but about human rights and social policy. The perspective is international -although largely North American -and most of the authors are psychologists or lawyers. The work is divided into four parts dealing with human rights, quality of life, current service models and future directions.
The ®rst part reminds us that concern for human rights was reinforced by the abuses of the Nazi era and that advocacy needs a legal framework, such as the special United Nations declarations, for both older people and those with disabilities. Issues of capacity and legal rights are addressed.