News
Clarabelle Lee – New Trainee
Clarabelle Lee, an undergraduate student in Life Sciences at Queen’s University, has joined the Aging Project team. Her thesis project entitled “Assessing frailty in adults with IDD to improve care planning” will be conducted at Ongwanada.
H-CARDD Aging Project – Frailty
H-CARDD Aging Project reports a higher occurrence of frailty among adults with IDD compared to adults without IDD (9% vs 3%). Women, older adults, and adults with mental illness or addiction were more likely to be frail. See the full study here: http://bit.ly/2u4kEWO.
Poster Presentation for 2017 SCRA Conference
On June 23rd, MAPS will be presenting a poster on the case of parents of adults with IDD in Ontario at the SCRA Biennial Conference in Ottawa. Visit the conference website for details.
Future Study – Pilot for Frailty Index
Dr. Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz and Dr. Lynn Martin will work with OPADD, Reena and Mary Centre on a MCSS Modernization Grant. This project will put into practice their research on aging and frailty with IDD through a pilot of the frailty index. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2w9EmgU
New HSO Members
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz and Dr. Lynn Martin have officially joined Health Standards Organization (HSO) as members of the Developmental Disabilities Technical Committee.
They will help drive the standards development process and ensure that all points of view relating to a standard revision are represented. This HSO Technical Committees includes an individual with a disability, families, service providers, and researchers. For more information: www.hso.world
Health SIRG Workshop in Belfast
Helene Ouellette-Kuntz will be holding a workshop on supporting frail adults with IDD in Belfast, Ireland this June. Conference details are unfortunately no longer available.
Burdens of Parents with Compound Caregiving
Parents caring for an adult child with an IDD as well as another family member (compound caregiving) experienced greater perceptions of burden and family distress. As this negatively influences family functioning, compound caregiving must be included as part of caregiving assessments. See the full study here: http://bit.ly/2ll4mVw
Frailty Measures and Implementation
Interviews with key informants from two research teams who have developed frailty measures were conducted to learn about implementation. One measure is used in practice, although neither measure was applied to support policy-making. See the full MAPS study here: http://bit.ly/2hNMTUc
Projected IDD Populations in Canada
A recent study led by Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz presents two epidemiological approaches to estimate changes in the size of the older adult population with IDD in Ontario. Both methods project an increase. One method suggests a moderate increase (20.5%) while the other method suggests a small increase (4.1% to 8.4%). Full study available here: http://bit.ly/2ibULMj
2016 Aging Report
Interested in what we’ve been up to? Take a look at the December 2016 Aging Report put together by MAPS researchers: http://bit.ly/2gLCR4K