New study examines age‐at‐death disparity, people with and without IDD

Evidence of continued reduction in the age-at-death disparity between adults with and without intellectual and/or developmental disabilities

Scott D. Landes, Katherine E. McDonald, Janet M. Wilmoth & Erika Carter Grosso

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, December 2020

Scott Landes

Janet M. Wilmoth

Sociology Department

Aging Studies Institute

Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Political Science, M.A.

State & Local

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Scott Landes

Janet M. Wilmoth

"Evidence of continued reduction in the age‐at‐death disparity between adults with and without intellectual and/or developmental disabilities," co-authored by sociologists Scott Landes and Janet Wilmoth, along with social science Ph.D. student Erika Carter Grosso '10 M.A. (PSc), was published in the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Evidence from the study demonstrates that the age‐at‐death disparity between adults who did or did not have an intellectual and/or developmental disability reported on their death certificate continues to decrease, but the magnitude of the remaining disparity varied considerably by type of disability. 12/01/20