Meeting the Challenges of Aging with a Disability

Lessons Learned from Post Polio and Stroke

A Research Update with Practical Applications

March 19-20, 1993

Airport Marriott Hotel, Long Beach, California

Sponsored by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, California in conjunction with Southern California Post Polio Network Stroke Association of Southern California and International Polio Network

• Acknowledgments
• Future Perspectives: Meeting the Common Challenges of Aging with a Disabiity
• Aging and Disability: A Comparison of Health Related Changes
• Coping with Disability: A Challenge at All Ages
• How to Dance with Your Doctor: Dialogue Between Physicians and Consumers
• Exercise: When, How and Why
• Promoting Personal Growth Through the Disability Experience
• Hijacked to Holland: Travel Tips for an Unexpected Journey
• Aging with a Disability: A Life Course Perspective
• Educating Ourselves About Aging with a Disability
• Aging While Disabled: Personal Perspectives
• Presenters
• Integrating New Physical Realities with Old Self Definitions: A Challenge for Survivors
• References
• Love, Sex and Disability: Maintaining Interest and Intimacy
• Caregiver Stress: Causes and Treatment
• The Late Effects of Polio: From Taming a Mysterious Syndrome to Managing the Ravages of Time
• Welcomed New Perspectives in Meeting the Challenges of Living After Stroke