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Pryce, L, Tweed, A and Priest, HM (2015) Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 30 (1). pp. 84-96. ISSN 1468-3148
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Abstract
Background
Improved life expectancy means that more adults with intellectual disabilities are now living with ageing parents. This study explored older families' perceptions of the future.
Methods
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine older parents and three adults with intellectual disabilities and analysed to produce an explanatory thematic framework.
Results
‘Tolerating uncertainty’ was the major theme in participants' attempts to manage anxieties about the future, encompassing sub-themes of ‘accepting the parenting role’, ‘facing challenges’, ‘being supported/isolated’, ‘positive meaning making’, ‘re-evaluating as time moves on’ and ‘managing future thinking’. Some participants expressed preferences for their future which were in contrast to their parents' views, and provide a unique perspective that has often been neglected in prior research.
Conclusions
This research has found commonalities in how families tolerate the uncertainty of the future, but also unique differences that require tailored interventions and prospective action by services.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Published online 20 October 2015, before print. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | ageing, families, future, intellectual disabilities, parent carers, systemic |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2015 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2019 11:05 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1026 |