Since adults with intellectual disabilities are living longer, how much of a concern is it they will not get the help they need?
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Since adults with intellectual disabilities are living longer, how much of a concern is it they will not get the help they need?

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Teal Benevides, PhD, OTR/L

Associate Professor & Director of Faculty Development, Institute of Public and Preventive Health,  Augusta University

“What alarms me is we don’t have sufficient services and supports for adults. We just don’t have them. When people ask for services, support and resources, there’s no place to point them to unless they are children.”

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