Building a Picture of Ageing of People with Intellectual Disability: Future Directions for Ageing Well

Friday 9th September 2011: Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

Conference Programme
08.15 / Registration and refreshments
09.00 / Welcome
Prof Mary McCarron Principal Investigator of IDS-TILDA and Head of the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin

Opening Address

Prof Patrick Prendergast Provost, Trinity College Dublin

09.15 / Minister’s Address
Responding to the opportunities and challenges to be faced in the ageing of people with intellectual disability

Ms Kathleen Lynch T.D. Minister of State with special responsibility for Disability, Equality, Mental Health and Older People

Session One
09.30 / The first wave findings of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(IDS-TILDA)
Questions & Answers / Mr Paul Alford Self-Advocate
Prof Mary McCarron Principal Investigator of IDS-TILDA
Prof Philip McCallion Director of the Center for Excellence in Aging & Community Wellness, University at Albany, USA and Co- Principal Investigator of IDS-TILDA
11.15 / Refreshment break
Session Two
11.45 / Placing the IDS-TILDA findings in the context of the first wave findings of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) / Prof Charles Normand Professor of Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin and Co-Principal Investigator on TILDA, Trinity College Dublin
12.15 / Exploring options for extending the IDS-TILDA to Northern Ireland / Prof Roy McConkey Professor of Developmental Disabilities, University of Ulster
12.45 / Lunch
Session Three
14.00 / Improving our understanding of physical health issues among people with intellectual disability as they age / Prof Heleen Evenhuis Intellectual Disability Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
14.30 / Understanding the daily lives of people with intellectual disability as they age / Prof Christine Bigby Director of Postgraduate Programs,
La Trobe University, Australia
15.00 / Improving our understanding of mental health issues for people with intellectual disability as they age / Prof Tony Holland Professor of Learning Disability, University of Cambridge
15.30 / Rights and advocacy challenges for people with intellectual disability as they age / Prof Gerard Quinn Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway
16.00 / Building common approaches to the growing dementia concerns among people with intellectual disability as they age / Prof Matthew Janicki Research Associate Professor, Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
16.30 / Questions & Answers
17.00 / Closing Remarks / Prof Mary McCarron Principal Investigator of IDS-TILDA