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This series explores the everyday lives of disabled people, from birth through to coping with bereavement - and everything in between. The fifth programme focuses on the lives of two disabled adult...s, Matt, who lives with his elderly father and Jackie, who lives in a care home.
This series explores the everyday lives of disabled people, from birth through to coping with bereavement - and everything in between. The fifth programme focuses on the lives of two disabled adult...s, Matt, who lives with his elderly father and Jackie, who lives in a care home.
| Series: | Nobody's normal |
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| First transmission date: | 17-07-2006 |
| Published: | 2006 |
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| Duration: | 00:44:00 |
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| Director: | Louise Hibbins |
| Producer: | Louise Hibbins |
| Narrator: | Martha Kearney |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/nobodysnormal/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Case studies; Disability studies--Great Britain; Down syndrome |
| Footage description: | As people with disabilities live longer, their parents are growing increasingly anxious. They want to know who will look after their adult children when they are gone. Matt is 30 and has been cared for by his dad and mum all his life. He is severely disabled, all his needs are met by his dad, Ivor, aged 74, alone since the death of his wife, Enid, four years ago. Ivor wants a dignified degree of care for his son, and has found nothing approaching his very particular standards. Jackie Steer is 56 and her Mum, Peggy, is 81. Jackie has Down syndrome and has deteriorated physically in the last few years. Peggy is happy with the residential home that Jackie lives in and is part of a group of new, elderly friends who meet regularly to give support and share thoughts about what to do with their elderly children once they are no longer able to care. |
| Production number: | JOUA431T |
| Videofinder number: | 7366 |
| Available to public: | no |
