Question

how would you address intellectual disabilities with patients that are in nursing homes?

Answer 1

Ans) Age as young as 40 and 55 have been in literature of who is old for an individual with intellectual disabilities
• Early literature in intellectual disabilities often carried out an assumption that a person with intellectual disabilities living to 45 or 50 years of age may be considered old
o this assumption was based on view that people with intellectual disabilities may be subject to double or triple jeopardy regarding the normal loss pattern associated with advancing age
• no physiologically more rapid technically
• This assumption is and remains based on such factors where the person resides and what services are available and used
• Agreement on who is old among people with individual disabilities still remains a problem
• Determining the size of the population of aging people with intellectual disabilities then is difficult
o Estimates vary widely for calculating the prevalence.