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This article addresses the challenges faced by individuals with a developmental
disability as they age. As this group ages, many face unpleasant experiences
including poverty, isolation, abuse, and at best adequate, but more commonly poor
medical care. Due to biomechanical overuse, compounded by an injured nervous
system, physiologic aging is accelerated. These patients experience in their 40s
and 50s physical changes that able-bodied individuals experience over the age of
70. Often these patients see the least experienced members of the health care
team, leading to misdiagnosis and further comorbidity.

Langue : ANGLAIS