Outputs (2)

Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medicine Adherence for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Through Participatory Research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paterson, R., Adbulla, S., Spassiani, N., & Higgins, A. (2024, August). Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medicine Adherence for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Through Participatory Research. Poster presented at IASSIDD, 1

Background: Medicine non-adherence has a significant impact on quality of life, mortality, and morbidity. In 2003, the World Health Organisation stated that medicines optimization may have a greater impact on chronic disease management compared to... Read More about Did I Take My Medication Today? Understanding Medicine Adherence for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Through Participatory Research.

An Ageing Intellectual Disability Population: Exploring How Intellectual Disability Agencies Are Supporting Healthy Ageing (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spassiani, N., Meisner, B., Heller, T., & Hammel, J. An Ageing Intellectual Disability Population: Exploring How Intellectual Disability Agencies Are Supporting Healthy Ageing. Presented at The World Congress of the International Association for the Scien

Introduction: Providing support for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) to remain in the community as they age is a relatively new concept for ID agencies. The purpose of this study was to explore how ID agencies are engaging people with ID li... Read More about An Ageing Intellectual Disability Population: Exploring How Intellectual Disability Agencies Are Supporting Healthy Ageing.