A Narrative Inquiry into the Lives of Older Adults Labelled with Intellectual Disabilities: The Significance of Place as a Means to Story Retirement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This narrative inquiry engaged the author in the storied lives of three older gentlemen labelled with intellectual disabilities (the inquirers) as they lived out a story of retirement in their community in a mid-sized city in Western Canada. The author walked alongside the inquirers for nearly a year in search of coherence in their shared experiences. Although the grand narrative suggests that these gentlemen are likely to experience a lonely, isolated, and inactive retirement, it is with confidence and pride that they live a competing story in which they are engaged with their community; they enjoy spending time with new friends, participating in new activities, and venturing into new territory. Seemingly, place proved to be of most significance to the inquirers as they lived out their stories of retirement. However, their storied past drives their current and future retirement prospects as they search to relive moments which provide meaning, structure, and familiarity, specifically seeking out opportunities to serve others in their community at church and the local senior centre, for example. In light of their success, the author suggests that perhaps a lack of structured retirement programming can actually enhance opportunities for growth as older adults labelled with intellectual disabilities are pushed to live a self-determined retirement as they seek out meaningful opportunities for success. Throughout the paper, the author reflects on her own experiences on the professional knowledge landscape as she questions her positioning as a researcher, professor, student, support person, advocate, and friend. During her time walking alongside the inquirers in the three-dimensional space, she became awakened to/was reminded of/experienced tensions in relation to the grand narrative surrounding her own life and that of her inquirers. She relives/retells personal stories in an attempt to find coherence and live in an educative way amongst the tensions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".