This project seeks to explore the things that give meaning in the lives of older people with intellectual disability. It specifically seeks to understand the role of meaning in life in that relationship and also tries to understand the impact on meaning in life of COVID-19. This will be achieved through the use of a recognised meaning in life scale. Research has suggested that the meaning that one finds in life (meaning in life) can have significant consequences for quality of life and wellbeing, challenging social isolation, and poor mental health. The prevalence of these in the lives of older people with intellectual disability has been identified in the findings of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA). Meaning in life has been studied extensively in the wider population but not among people with intellectual disability.
