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In January 2019, we will be running the popular Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on improving healthcare and health assessments for people with intellectual disabilities. The course is aimed at healthcare professionals, care providers and others who work with people with an intellectual disability. Over three weeks, the free online course will explore best practice techniques for communication, assessment, and developing accessible materials for people with an intellectual disability. It is now open for registration on the FutureLearn platform and starts on the 21st January, 2019. It is led by Dr Eilish Burke, Ussher Assistant Professor in Ageing and Intellectual Disability at Trinity College Dublin and the Associate Director of the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability.

People with intellectual disabilities from six different services met in Trinity College Dublin to celebrate the culmination of a year-long physical activity leadership project, PPALs. The PPALs project is about empowering people with ID to make their communities healthier by becoming Physical Activity Leaders and today saw the newly trained PPALs awarded their certificates of completion by Minister Catherine Byrne, TD and rugby player Rob Kearney.

With just under one week to go to the information webinar on the Ageing Health and Wellbeing in Intellectual Disability information webinar this is a reminder to register.

Professor Mary McCarron, is to launch the Wave 3 Report: Health, Wellbeing and Social Inclusion: Ageing with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland, Evidence from the First Ten Years of The Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA). The launch will take place on the 4 December 2017 at 11am - 1pm in Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council,Dublin 8. This is a free event and seats are limited. Please reserve your ticket here

Learn different ways to improve healthcare and health assessments for people with intellectual disabilities with this course for healthcare professionals.

The Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability is hosting its inaugural event on Wednesday, 20 September, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. Register here

A study of dementia in women with Down syndrome in Ireland has found very high prevalence rates and significantly earlier onset of the disease than in the general population.

A 20-year longitudinal TCD study on dementia in adults with Down syndrome in Ireland has found very high prevalence rates, significantly earlier onset than in the general..

At the end of the long-term study, 97.4% of participants had developed dementia.