Geriatric Rehabilitation

Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)

Lifestyle Medicine

Special Symposium

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Aging with and into Disability: State of the Science and Rehabilitation Implications (603068)

Presenter(s)

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  Flavia Santos, PhD

  Assistant Professor, School of Psychology
  University College Dublin, Dublin
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  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
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  Tamar Heller, MA, PhD

  Distinguished Professor, Department Head, Disability and Human Development
  University of Illinois
  Chicago, Illinois

Panelist(s)

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  Patricia Heyn, PhD, FGSA, FACRM

  Associate Professor
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado

Moderator(s)

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  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.

Learning Objectives:

• to identify key features of cognitive decline associated with dementia
• to express rationale for changing orientation from a proactive learning expression model to a learning retention model associated with dementia supports
• to understand the knowledge and attitudes about ageing and healthy ageing in people with disabilities
• evaluate the current science, approaches and move to the future research