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Geriatric Rehabilitation
Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)
Lifestyle Medicine
Special Symposium
Flavia Santos, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Psychology
University College Dublin, Dublin
Matthew Janicki, PhD
Co-chair, National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices and Research Associate Professor of Human Development and Director for Technical Assistance
Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
Rockport, ME 04856, Maine
Tamar Heller, MA, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department Head, Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Patricia Heyn, PhD, FGSA, FACRM
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado
Emily Nalder, PhD, BOccThy(Hons)
Assistant professor (tenure stream)
University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine
Toronto, Ontario
This special symposium aim to address the current evidence on individuals aging with disabilities and will discuss the knowledge and attitudes about ageing and healthy ageing in people with disabilities among people with ID themselves, their families and key workers, such as nurses, social workers, and physicians. Many professionals working with people with disabilities may not understand what is the same or different about ageing in people with disability and may therefore not know how to offer the necessary support. These issues are both widespread and international but there are also nation specific approaches from which all may learn.