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PfI Report : What does it mean to be disabled and growing older?

21 August 2018 by Val Bowen

In late 2017, the disabled community representatives of Sheffield-based Partners for Inclusion (PfI)commissioned a small-scale piece of research in collaboration with Sheffield
Hallam University. The project aimed to explore the voices and experiences of disabled people in the local Sheffield area who were growing older. With many years of lived experience of disability and now entering the period of life in which one was considered to be ‘getting older’, the group felt that the experiences of disabled people were missing from conversations about what it means to grow older, with rather more focus being on those that acquire impairment during old age. It was felt that there is a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience about disability and ageing that currently isn’t discussed within services, communities and society more broadly, or the research literature. View Report

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