Ageing with a lifelong disability is a relatively new phenomenon which is illustrated by the dramatic changes in life expectancy for people with intellectual disabilities from about 20 years in 1930 to 70 years in 1993 (Carter and Jancar 1983; Strauss and Eyman 1996). The current cohort of older people with lifelong disabilities is the first sizeable group to have survived into later life. Ageing throws up new opportunities and challenges not for only individuals and their families but also for the helping professions and human service systems. Research on the characteristics, needs and aspirations of older people with a lifelong disability and related policy and service developments are of recent origin. Prior to the 1980s there was little debate about this matter. In the context of ageing populations in Australia, Europe and the USA, people with a lifelong disability are one of the fastest growing but smallest groups of older people. [download]
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