ASLaRC Aged Services Unit, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.
J Intellect Disabil Res. 2011 Sep;55(9):895-903. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01449.x. Epub 2011 Jul 26.
People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) are growing older as a population cohort. Many live at home with family members who are their carers but who are also becoming older and less able to provide care. The housing and support preferences of people with IDs and their carers into older age are poorly characterised in the literature.
Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted with 15 people with IDs who work in supported employment and with 10 family members who care for adults with IDs. Data were thematically analysed independently by two researchers.
The major themes that emerged were as follows: (1) living arrangements; (2) housing preferences; (3) ageing in place; and (4) transition from informal to formal housing and support services.
Participants with an ID and their carers want housing and support that enable people with an ID to maintain and enhance their social networks with their peers as they grow older and require transition to formal housing and support services, and to be able to 'age in place'. A preference was expressed for models of housing that provide the opportunity for people with an ID to live in close proximity to their peers and in large groups in the community rather than in small, dispersed community housing.
智障人士（ID）作为一个人群群体正在逐渐老龄化。许多人住在家里，由他们的家庭成员照顾，但这些家庭成员也在逐渐变老，越来越难以提供照顾。智障人士及其照顾者在年老时的住房和支持偏好在文献中描述得很少。
对 15 名在支持性就业中工作的智障人士和 10 名照顾成年智障人士的家庭成员进行了焦点小组和个人访谈。两位研究人员独立对数据进行了主题分析。
出现的主要主题如下：（1）居住安排；（2）住房偏好；（3）就地老龄化；（4）从非正式住房和支持服务向正式住房和支持服务过渡。
智障人士及其照顾者希望有住房和支持，使智障人士能够随着年龄的增长，维持和增强他们与同龄人之间的社交网络，并需要过渡到正式的住房和支持服务，能够“就地老龄化”。他们表示更倾向于提供住房模式，使智障人士有机会与同龄人居住在社区的附近，并居住在大群体中，而不是居住在小型、分散的社区住房中。
