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It is estimated that 50 -60 % of all adults with learning disabilities in Germany cohabitate with their relatives, mainly with their parents. Regional surveys confirm cohabitation often continues into the fifth decade of the disabled person's lifespan (vgl. Lindmeier et al. 2018). With the aging of the family members, the vulnerability of the family life situation increases. Changes are commonly initiated by the parents' decreasing health, directly affecting the parents ability of care intensity . Until now, science and practice have not developed suitable offers of support. In general, older families are subject to a problem-focused professional discourse and experience themselves confronted with normative regulations. While in the sociological discourse assumptions of normality regarding a family-biography are discussed critically, the work with families with disabled children still assumes a standardized family life cycle as a view on the support structure underlines. Offers of support for older families underestimate the biographical value of their life design and the desire of having this acknowledged, respected and noticed while exploring future perspectives. The presented example of biographical research explores the biographical meanings of living together with an adult disabled child from a parental perspective. The study follows the intention to generate a better understanding and above all appreciation for familiar realities, to support them developing perspectives for their future and to contribute to a new attitude towards older families. In this context family isn't defined as a stable institution (vgl. Fuhs 2002, 23) but as a making in the sense of doing family (vgl. Jurczyk/Lange & Thiessen 2014). In order to portray the diversity of family-life-stories, to reconstruct crisis and strategies of coping, to trace conceptions of 'being family' and to classify the social practice of living together, biographical research is chosen. This appears in the methodology as well as in the epistemological basis of this thesis. On the one hand, biographies are generated in a complex, dialectic interaction of individual acting and social structures. On the other hand, they structure individual acting in turn. Thus, living together can no longer be seen as a sole demonstration of individual action but is likewise socially contextualized. With this approach, the view for the diversity of families with disabled children is enhanced and the long term cohabitation is no longer interpretated as a demonstration of parental failure but as a manifestation of meaningful practice in which society participates at any time. To be able to comprehend the methodic procedure, this thesis starts with a detailed theoretical discussion of its main subjects that are "biography", "family", "older families", "residing/living circumstances" and "age/ageing". In a next step, conferring to the leading issue and the underlying conceptualization of biography, the chosen methods of research are explained. The narrative interview and the biographical case reconstruction according to Gabriele Rosenthal (2014) are eminently suitable to reflect the complex dialectic relation between social structure and individual behaviour inherent to biography. Thus, the thesis attempts to trace and to compare the social phenomenon of living together focusing on the genesis, the maintenance/perpetuation and the transformation, based on three detailed examples of biographies of older parents with disabled children. The presented results form the basis to derive consequences for a different approach to older families and ideas are discussed to adjust and/or reconstruct structures of support. The proposed approaches emphasize disabled people's right to a self-determined life, while they also respect the desire of many families to biographically continue their unique way of 'doing family', hence encouraging a "person and family"-centered planning process to be the future starting point. hence encouraging a "person and family"-centered planning process to be the future starting point.

Older people --- People with mental disabilities. --- Intellectually disabled persons --- Mental disabilities, People with --- Mentally deficient persons --- Mentally disabled persons --- Mentally disordered persons --- Mentally handicapped --- Mentally retarded persons --- People with intellectual disabilities --- Retarded persons --- People with disabilities --- Intellectual disability --- Mentally ill

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"Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people were referenced in Iceland as a legal or administrative category. Data sources analysed in the project represent a broad range of materials that are not often featured in the study of disability, such as bone collections, medieval literature and census data from the early modern era, archaeological remains, historical archives, folktales and legends, personal narratives and museum displays. The ten chapters include contributions from multidisciplinary team of experts working in the fields of Disability Studies, History, Archaeology, Medieval Icelandic Literature, Folklore and Ethnology, Anthropology, Museum Studies, and Archival Sciences, along with a collection of post-doctoral and graduate students. The volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, history, medieval studies, ethnology, folklore, and archaeology"-- Provided by publisher.

People with disabilities. --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability

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This book, Physical Disabilities - Therapeutic Implications, presents reports on a wide range of areas in the field of neurobiological disabilities, including movement disorders (Uner Tan syndrome, genetic and environmental influences, chronic brain damage, stroke, and pediatric disabilities) related to physical and stem cell therapy. Studies are presented from researchers around the world, looking at aspects as wide-ranging as the genetics, wheelchair, and robotics behind the conditions to new and innovative therapeutic approaches.

People with disabilities. --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Medicine --- Neuroscience --- Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System --- Health Sciences

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Inklusion und Sozialraum : Behindertenrecht und Behindertenpolitik in der Kommune

People with disabilities --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Sozialrecht --- SGB IX --- Schwerbehindertenrecht

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Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not. Hobgood examines early modern disability, ableism, and disability gain, purposefully employing these contemporary concepts to make clear how disability has historically been disavowed--and avowed too. Thus, this book models how modern ideas and terms make the weight of the past more visible as it marks the present, and cultivates dialogue in which early modern and contemporary theoretical models are mutually informative. Beholding Disability also uncovers crucial counterdiscourses circulating in the English Renaissance that opposed cultural fantasies of ability and had a keen sensibility toward non-normative embodiments. Hobgood reads impairments as varied as epilepsy, stuttering, disfigurement, deafness, chronic pain, blindness, and castration in order to understand not just powerful fictions of ability present during the Renaissance but also the somewhat paradoxical, surprising ways these ableist ideals provided creative fodder for many Renaissance writers and thinkers. Ultimately, Beholding Disability asks us to reconsider what we think we know about being human both in early modernity, and today.

English literature --- Disabilities in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- History and criticism. --- People with disabilities --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- History