ABSTRACT Underpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRDP), Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the international goal to ‘leave no one behind’. However, the World Federation of the Deafblind have argued that deafblind people have been excluded from international welfare and disability development programmes. Despite making up the majority of the deafblind population, it appears that older deafblind people are particularly invisible. The paper builds on the earlier work of others, which translated the UN Principles for Older Persons into the language of older visually impaired adults, by using them here as the lens for a narrative review of the literature on older deafblind people. It argues that existing research demonstrates that older deafblind people are not only being ‘left behind’ in benefitting from implementation of the UN Principles, but also that the focus of the UN Principles themselves risks maintaining or enhancing their exclusion. Further research and policy development with older deafblind people is required to ensure that international and national social welfare policies and provision are not nugatory to the older deafblind population.

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年长的聋盲人会被抛在后面吗？从《联合国老年人原则》的角度对聋盲文献进行叙述性回顾

摘要 以联合国残疾人权利公约 (CRDP)、2030 年议程和可持续发展目标 (SDG) 为基础的国际目标是“不让任何人掉队”。然而，世界聋盲人联合会认为，聋盲人已被排除在国际福利和残疾发展计划之外。尽管聋盲人占大多数，但老年聋盲人似乎特别不显眼。该论文建立在其他人的早期工作的基础上，这些工作将联合国老年人原则翻译成视障老年人的语言，在此使用它们作为镜头对老年聋盲人的文献进行叙述性审查。它认为，现有研究表明，老年聋盲人不仅在受益于联合国原则的实施方面“落后”，而且联合国原则本身的重点有可能维持或加强对他们的排斥。需要对老年聋盲人进行进一步的研究和政策制定，以确保国际和国家社会福利政策和规定不会对老年聋盲人产生不利影响。