Life of people with severe intellectual disability – from adulthood to old age

Danuta Wolska

doi:10.24917/10.24917/24500232.131.4

Published : 2017-09-01

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017)

Life of people with severe intellectual disability – from adulthood to old age

Danuta Wolska

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24917/10.24917/24500232.131.4

Abstract

Since the 1970s, the psychology of human development around the world strongly emphasizes the interest in man in all phases of his life. The holistic attitude of the life-span psychology - manifested in the approach to human as a person - a multidimensional, but irreducible being, who functions in many areas, but always in a holistic way, and also a being that develops in a customized manner and without exception at every stage of life - helped to formulate many new detailed research problems. The scope of these research interests has also been extended to people with intellectual disabilities who increasingly take on social roles assigned to adults and perform developmental tasks assigned to a particular phase of life. Also, they increasingly reach late maturity as the time of their dying gradually progresses.

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a person with intellectual disability, adulthood, senility

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Wolska, D. (2017). Life of people with severe intellectual disability – from adulthood to old age. Exlibris Social Gerontology Journal, 13(1), 49–57. https://doi.org/10.24917/10.24917/24500232.131.4

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