Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Abbreviations
Section 1: background
1. Disability, ageing and transition to retirement
2. Promoting retirement
3. Laying the groundwork in the community
Section 2: constructing the reality
4. Planning
5. Locating a group for an individual
6. A new routine
7. Recruiting and training mentors
8. Monitoring and ongoing support
Section 3: broader issues
9. Conclusions
Readings
Appendix A: travel training
Appendix B: forms
About the authors
Index
Transition to retirement DVD
The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability build an active retirement lifestyle.
Roger Stancliffe is a professor of intellectual disability at
the University of Sydney's Centre for Disability Research and
Policy.
Nathan Wilson is a senior lecturer at Western Sydney University
based in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Nicolette Gambin is the Transition to Retirement coordinator at the
Australian Foundation for Disability (AFFORD).
Christine Bigby is the director of the Living with Disability
Research Centre at LaTrobe University.
‘The book “Transition to Retirement: A Guide to Inclusive Practice”
is a world leading exemplar of a project that can address this
inequality for older adults with intellectual disabilities ... A
strength of this manual is that it has been written alongside staff
from a local charity who have implemented the Transition to
Retirement project adding sound advice regarding the enablers as
well as the barriers to implementing this project in practice ... I
would highly recommend this book to educators, researchers,
commissioners and service providers and it should be on the
bookshelves of everyone concerned with how adults with intellectual
disabilities age in order to plan a more active and inclusive
retirement.’
*Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities*
' ... the book is clear and concise, and will be a useful resource
for its
primary audience of social care workers who provide employment
support
services.'
*Learning Disability Practice*
' ... the manual is set within the Australian context, [but]
the
themes and practical suggestions are transferable to other
countries and
cultures and, all in all, it is a good guide to have to hand.'
*Tizard Learning Disability Review*
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