Ageing and Disability: A Look at Two Different Trajectories according to the Clinical Psychology of Disability
A special issue of Geriatrics (ISSN 2308-3417).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 9408
Special Issue Editors
Interests: disability; ageing; neuropsychology; learning disorders; intellectual disabilities
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Dear Colleagues,
The progressive ageing of the global population is an important anthropological and social phenomenon, and is due to the overall increasing of health and living conditions. People can live longer and can go through their entire lifespan, reaching the more advanced phases of possible human life. However, the increase of life expectancy does not correspond completely to the increase of healthy life expectancy, and longer lives are associated with higher risk of developing age-related disorders, diseases and disability. Thus, the progressive population ageing could lead to more individuals living to more advanced phases of life with age-related diseases, disorders and disability. People with disability also have an increased life expectancy; they can live longer than in past. It is mandatory to consider how to add life to years and how to promote wellbeing and good quality of life even when individuals have age-related disorders and/or disability. In this Special Issue, we aim to address the relationship between ageing and disability according to the perspective of Clinical Psychology of Disability, which has a role in the assessment, diagnosis and support of people with disability in each phase of life, including people with disability who age and reach the more advanced phases of life; and according to a life span perspective, where there can be two main developmental trajectories in the relationship between ageing and disability: “ageing with disability” and “disability with ageing”.
Dr. Donatella Petretto
Prof. Dr. Roberto Pili
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ageing
- disability
- disablement
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