Emergency Healthcare in Adults with IDD; Communication of Health Care Needs

Emergency Healthcare in Adults with IDD; Part 2 Hospital Care

Emergency Healthcare in Adults with IDD; An Introduction to the Issues and Challenges.

A Hospital Program for Adults with I/DD: Improving the patient experience

Webinar took place on July 25

Dementia Evaluation and Care in Aging Adults with IDD: Remembering Bill

Adults with  IDD are living longer than in the past. Functional and cognitive decline are very common social and health consequences of aging, but they are often poorly characterized and managed by Health care providers and support staff. This Webinar will present specific information that will help to clarify these issues as well as to present information on the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices project (NTG).

The following article from July 13, 2010 is a good synopsis of the Special Olympics Health Symposium.

Health Experts To Discuss Ways To Improve Wellbeing Of People With Intellectual Disabilities
13 Jul 2010

Following comprehensive health care reform passed earlier this year and on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Special Olympics has organized a health symposium to explore the current state of health for people with intellectual disabilities and ways to improve their access to care.

Developmental Disabilities Community Asks to be Recognized as Medically Underserved

A coalition of over 30 national health and advocacy organizations dedicated to people with developmental and intellectual disability (fka mental retardation) has asked the federal government to officially recognize people with neurodevelopmental disorders as a medically underserved population (MUP).