April 2015

Did you know that there is a lack of data on older adults with an intellectual disability in Northern Ireland, and the most recent data are from 2006?  In that year, there were 16,720 people in Northern Ireland known to services with an intellectual disability. Of these, 14% (2,340) were aged 50 or over.

For more information, see the report ‘Social inclusion and ageing with an intellectual disability’ on the website of the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI).