Health and Quality of Life in Middle-Aged and Older Autistic Adults
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- In this webinar, Dr. Bishop shares updates from her research on the health and well-being of autistic people as they age. She discusses what is known about both healthy aging and early or accelerated aging in autistic people. She also shares insights from qualitative and quantitative studies that highlight factors that underlie risk and resilience in autistic people in mid to late life. Some of these findings were made possible by SPARK participants
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I am so glad to find this video. thank you for the clip.
My grandpa I'm sure had autism (wasn't diagnosed). I have a lot of memories of him!
I need to participate in some of these studies, more is needed on the middle aged population. I'm struggling now more than ever with trying to live independently, worse than when I was juggling a job even! I have no place to turn for help, no support, no understanding from the medical field of what's going on and what can be done to help me
I hope the best for you my friend. I am a 53 m with autism that has struggled with depression and substance abuse. Life is a struggle but we are making progress. I have 35 years of documented treatment but feel my doctor's do not understand autism. I have no quality of life and believe I would benefit from not working and applying for SSDI, but cannot get assistance in any form even from doctors.
@@mikemaj8467 you need to contact a lawyer to get help with getting SSD but it is a long difficult process. 😥
One thing I wish for myself and other autistic people is if we could have advocate who is also our therapist. And they help us go to appointments, etc. For example, I won't get a colonoscopy. I'm too afraid. So then I just don't go. What if I could have my therapist with me? Maybe then I could go. Also.. therapy is too expensive! Can it just be a free service or something?
The reduced longevity figure quoted here of up to two decades shorter is way out. The 2024 Lancet research report showed a reduced longevity rates was 6.5 years. For females was 8 years less. They also stated that these figures were possibly less {only 2-3 years less} if the data looked at larger numbers of diagnosed older people you get a pretty minimal longevity differences between them and non Autistic elders.
Far too many older Autistic have missed a formal diagnosis. Quality of life for Autistic people is below what they should be. Services for older Autistics are very poor.