Healthy ageing for older adult people with intellectual disability: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing longevity of people with intellectual disability creates a need for a healthy-ageing perspective, translated into evidence-based interventions in this multi-morbidity group. Accordingly, the aim of this scoping review was to identify, summarise and analyse the empirical research on healthy ageing in older adults with intellectual disability.

Methods

This review was based on the PRISMA 2020 guidelines for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and a PICO protocol (Patient/population, Intervention, Comparison/control, and Outcome). Empirical studies in English were included if they concerned older adults with intellectual disability with an average age of at least 45 and were based on a clearly expressed healthy-ageing perspective. An information specialist con

SUBMITTER: El Mrayyan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11866571 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature