ID Dementia International Summit

intellectual disability and dementia international summit 2016

In October 2016, an International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia was held in Glasgow, Scotland with 32 representatives from twelve countries in attendance, and the pre-recorded experiences of people with intellectual disabilities shared at the event. The International Summit was facilitated and co-hosted by Dr Karen Watchman, University of Stirling, Scotland and Professor Matthew Janicki, University of Illinois at Chicago.

The event was funded by RS MacDonald Trust, the Scottish Government, and Alzheimer Scotland. Collaborating sponsors included the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices (NTG) in the United States and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Pre-summit working groups sought local and national perspectives and lived experiences using a shared web space to collate information in advance of meeting in Glasgow. Subsequent reports and articles collaboratively developed between 2016-2018 can be accessed below.