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This 4-page paper examines developmental disabilities and ageing, and determines potential societal policies on how to deal with both of these issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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definitions around there, its difficult to come up with governmental or community policies that will help embrace them all. For example, in chronological years, someone could be considered "ageing" if
he was 85 years old. But hes a vigorous 85 years, hes walking, running and enjoying life -- as opposed to his 55-year-old daughter, who is moaning and complaining about
every little ache and pain and cant wait to retire to go on some sort of disability. The best thing we can
probably do, in this regard, is to examine some specific definitions of both ageing and developmental disabilities, and then determine how those definitions might fit into social or governmental policies.
According to the dictionary, for example, a developmental disability is defined as "a severe, chronic disability of a person, which is attributable
to a mental or physical impairment or a combination of mental or physical impairments" (The Hope School, 2004). This definition goes on to note that the disabilities result in "substantial
functional limitation in certain areas when it comes to life activity, such as self-care, self-expression, capacity for independent living and being able to take care of oneself economically (The Hope
School, 2004). Ageing is a little more difficult to define -- according to Wordreference.com, ageing is considered to be "the organic process
of growing older and the showing effects of increasing age." In other words, ageing means growing older. The difficulty here is that "growing older" is not necessarily related to "growing
feeble" -- as mentioned above, plenty of people are elderly, yet they still retain their faculties, are able to get around and are in pretty good health (despite the occasional
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