Meindert Haveman

TL;DR: In a GP database, 318 people with intellectual disability appeared to have 2.5 times more health problems than people without ID, and the nature of the health problems is discussed.

TL;DR: The reported high prevalence and incidence of visual and hearing impairment, which was even more pronounced in people with Down's syndrome than inPeople with intellectual disability resulting from other causes, reflects the need for a more predictive policy which can anticipate health problems in peopleWith intellectual disability.

TL;DR: Although the review revealed varying differences in the prevalence of health risk factors, significant evidence is emerging that cardiovascular disease is as prevalent among people with ID and is as common a cause of death as in the general population.

TL;DR: Some evidence of health disparities was found for older people with ID, particularly in terms of underdiagnosed or inadequately managed preventable health conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the service needs, time demands, and subjective burden of parent caregivers of children and adults with mental retardation across the life cycle and examined the extent that family and child characteristics and service use contributed to parents' time demands and burden.