Intellectual Disability, Employment and Aging: Intervention Measures

María Teresa Ortega-Camarero, José Luis Cuesta-Gómez and Raquel de la Fuente-Anuncibay
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María Teresa Ortega-Camarero: Department of Private Law, Area of Sociology, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
José Luis Cuesta-Gómez: Department of Education Sciences, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Raquel de la Fuente-Anuncibay: Department of Education Sciences, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 6, 1-22

Abstract: Workers living with intellectual disability suffer in a special way from the onset of premature aging. Hence the need to generate alternatives and policies for the development of a new model for active aging and the care of workers with intellectual disability. Our objective in this study is, therefore, to devise intervention measures that can minimize the effects of aging on the lives and the activities of these workers. Employing the Delphi technique, we assembled and consulted a panel of 8 experts with relevant expertise in the fields of intellectual disability; aging; employment and dependency. The panel included employers, families and workers with disability. Each expert reached a prior consensus over every response and contribution after having consulted four other experts with similar backgrounds, a consultative process in which a total of 40 experts participated. A total of 68 measures were proposed which correspond to three lines of action or key contexts: Firms and Organizations that employ People with Intellectual Disability; People with Intellectual Disability, and Family setting. In all, 10 recommendations with a focus on both firms and organizations were advanced to implement the proposed measures. The conclusion was that interventions are needed from the time at which the first symptoms of deterioration are detected, which should not necessarily lead to immediate loss of employment, as well as individualized and coordinated interventions among all relevant stakeholders, including the families.

Keywords: intellectual disability; employment; aging; measures; quality of life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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