Healthy lifestyles can add up to 10 extra years of life, study says

Research quantifies how many extra years one can expect in return for good health

Dementia risk associated with Down syndrome

Eighty per cent of those with Down syndrome who reach 65 years of age will have dementia

TCD opens Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability

IDS-Tilda underpins Ireland’s status as world leader in intellectual disability and aging research

Careless talk costs lives – mind your language on ageing

While huge sensitivity is taken with terminology relating to race and gender preference, it remains open season for attitudes and descriptors related to ageing

Medical Matters: No lazy assumptions about patients with intellectual disability

Ireland ill-prepared to address needs of those with Down syndrome and dementia

As a result, a vulnerable group is falling between the different care systems