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Namkung, Eun Ha; Greenberg, Jan S.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Floyd, Frank J. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This research examined how parenting adults with developmental disabilities affects parental well-being beyond midlife and into old age. Parents of adults with developmental disabilities (n = 249) and parents of adults without disabilities (n = 9,016), studied in their early 50s and mid-60s, were longitudinally tracked into their early 70s.…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Parents, Well Being
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Woodman, Ashley C.; Mailick, Marsha R.; Anderson, Kristy A.; Esbensen, Anna J. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The present study addresses critical gaps in the literature by examining residential transitions among 303 adults with intellectual disability (ID) over 10 years (Part 1) and 75 adults with Down syndrome over 20 years (Part 2). All adults lived at home at the start of the study, but many moved to a variety of settings. Several characteristics of…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Adults, Mental Retardation, Down Syndrome