This event brings together key decision-makers supporting people with intellectual disability within the health and social care sector in Ireland to consider how recommendations from the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) may be implemented to support people with an intellectual disability as they age. The event will provide:
Key decision makers including CEOs, senior managers, HSE officials and possible others, with responsibility for services for people intellectual disability with the opportunity to hear about the findings from the fifth wave of IDS-TILDA on Longitudinal Dynamics in the Ageing of People with an intellectual disability.
Facilitated thematic sessions to collectively consider how such data may inform the design and delivery of future evidenced informed person centred services in line with the UNCRPD.
In partnership with the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers in Ireland and HSE National Clinical Programme for People with Disability, Prof Mary McCarron and team will provide the service map, health and social factors that influence health and wellbeing of people with an intellectual disability as they age, including key findings and trends in physical health, cognitive health, mental health, behavioural health, healthcare access and utilisation, family and community engagement carer experiences, end of life supports and key social determinants of health.
A range of thematic sessions will provide time and space to hear key findings, ask clarifying questions, and work together on groupings of topics using principles of collective intelligence to understand the challenges and opportunities being presented, seek solutions where needed (policy and practice) and to consider learnings and needed adaptations and decision points. The event will offer time for the exchange of ideas and views on how services may best respond to emerging evidence and development of an initial action plan including agreement on action principles and next steps.