People with early-onset disabilities are said to "age with disability," while those with mid-or late-life onsets are said to have "disability with aging." This is stereotypic since disability and aging are processes that interleave across the whole life course. We show this empirically by studying duration of disabilities by age in the U.S. community-dwelling adult population. To see how persons with childhoodonset disabilities and persons with adulthood-onset differ, we compare their sociodemographic, health, disability, and social participation characteristics. The data source is the National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplement. Results showed that most persons with a disability are older and have . had recent onsets, but some persons with childhood onsets have entered middle and older ages. The greatest diversity of disability experience is at the middle ages. People with childhood-onset disabilities have more disabilities than those with adulthood-onset disabilities, but their social role participation is similar or even higher. For both groups, poor overall health is the main factor that reduces social participation. Service providers must expect to find many commonalities among persons with disabilities of all ages while being attentive to psychosocial differences that may spring from childhood-onset versus adulthood-onset disabilities.People who incur disability at birth or in childhood are said to &dquo;age with disability,&dquo; and those free of disability until midor late-life are said to experience &dquo;disability with aging.&dquo; This article disassembles the stereotypes, showing how age and disability intersect in the U.S. community-dwelling adult population. We analyze the duration of disability (years since first onset) across age groups and the proportion of life with disability across age groups. The domains of personal care, household management, and basic physical activities are studied. We look closely at individuals with childhood-onset disabilities and those with adulthood-onset disabilities, evaluating their similarities and differences. Implications for service provision and policies for persons with disabilities are stated.
Both population aging and the socioeconomic changes that often accompany it have effects on intergenerational arrangements. As a result, assessing the evolving social contract among family members is a key part of the research agenda. Studies monitoring these effects and other consequences are relatively new. Another way to gain insight is through a historical analysis that (a) traces how expectations for old-age support have changed over recent decades for cohorts advancing through their life cycle, and (b) measures how well expectations accord with actual patterns. This article uses a series of fertility surveys in Taiwan from 1965 to the 1990s to trace expectations for coresidence among cohorts of young married women and to compare these expectations with the actual living arrangements observed in surveys of the elderly in the 1990s. The results indicate sharp shifts in expectations for each of the cohorts as they aged. These shifts reflect a response to respondents' own life course events and the changing socioeconomic environment and show large and persistent differentials by education throughout the period. These factors tend to bring expectations into fairly close concordance with the actual living arrangements observed some years later. Copyright 2004 The Population Council, Inc..
Motivated by a growing awareness of the penetration of world culture into the daily lives of ordinary people, this paper analyzes Taiwanese college students' perceptions of developmental hierarchies, a key element of models of modernization. We investigate the extent to which Taiwanese students hold hierarchical views of the world, whether these views match the views of the United Nations, the stability of these views across time, and the reliability of measurement. Data for this paper come from the survey of "Political Values and Attitudes among University Students in Taiwan", a panel study conducted by the Election Study Center in Taipei, Taiwan. Our results from this panel study conducted in 2006, 2007, and 2008 show that Taiwanese students have worldviews that include developmental hierarchies that are very similar to the country development ratings of the United Nations. We show that these perceptions of developmental hierarchies can be measured reliably at both the individual and aggregate levels and are stable across the survey years.
Disability structure reflects severity and timing of specific disabilities, sometimes strongly, and other times weakly due to exit processes from the community. Assumptions that disability occurs in "hard" tasks first and "easy" ones last, and that hard-and-early connotes mild disability whereas easy-and-late connotes severe, need direct empirical testing.
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