Inclusion At Work: Integrating Adults With Down Syndrome Into The Mainstream Workforce

Inclusion of people with Down syndrome must move beyond awareness to action. Learn how NGOs, employers, and families are ...
Yahoo

Adults with Down syndrome face a health care system that often treats them as kids

MONTROSE, Mo. — It took Samantha Lesmeister’s family four months to find a medical professional who could see that she was struggling with something more than her Down syndrome. The young woman, known ...
Disability Scoop

New Guide Provides Adults With Down Syndrome Roadmap For Care

As individuals with Down syndrome live longer than ever before, a newly released guide is offering first-of-its-kind advice to families about how the chromosomal disorder should impact their medical ...
News Medical

Adults with both Down Syndrome and congenital heart defects show remarkable resilience

Adults with both Down Syndrome and congenital heart defects, also known as congenital heart disease (CHD), are showing remarkable resilience despite facing significant medical challenges, according to ...
News Medical

Medicaid plays critical role in the health and well-being of adults with Down syndrome

Life expectancy has increased substantially for people in the United States with Down syndrome, from a median age of 4 years old in the 1950s to 57 years old in 2019. This longer life span increases ...
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A Missouri woman with Down syndrome struggled to find doctors who would help

Marilyn Lesmeister and her daughter Samantha “Sammee” Lesmeister after Sammee’s riding lesson at Remember to Dream therapeutic riding center in Cole Camp, Missouri. Sammee Lesmeister is one of a ...
Disability Scoop

Exercise May Boost Cognition In Adults With Down Syndrome

Taking regular walks may do much more than improve physical health for adults with Down syndrome. New research finds that walking three times a week for 30 minutes could prompt meaningful improvements ...
Science Daily

Children and young adults with Down Syndrome four times more likely to have diabetes

Children and young adults with Down Syndrome are four times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, according to new research. Children and young adults* with Down Syndrome are four times more ...

Study maps how Down syndrome biology changes with age

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic ...
KXAN

Higher Education For Adults With Down Syndrome Thanks To Ruby’s Rainbow

Liz says, “Ruby’s Rainbow was inspired by a wish to grant just one scholarship to a college student with Down syndrome.” 599 scholarships and 2 million dollars later, Liz and Ruby continue to promote ...
Business Wire

Aelis Farma Announces the Positive Results of Its Clinical Phase 1/2 Study with AEF0217 in Young Adults With Down Syndrome

BORDEAUX, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Two videoconferences will be held tomorrow, on Tuesday November 19, 2024, the first in French at 10:00 am CET and the second in English at 4:00 pm ...