Webinar October 12, 2022: COVID-19 impacts on people with intellectual disabilities.
Channel: La Trobe Living with Disability Research Centre
Date: 2022-10-13

As the largest public health crisis within a century, the COVID‐19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presented an unprecedented challenge to public health. Research evidence from around the globe shows that due to both individual and social structural factors adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities living in supported accommodation are especially vulnerable to the adverse effects of the pandemic.

Our first presentation concerns family members’ experiences supporting adults with intellectual disabilities in supported accommodation in Israel during the early stages of the pandemic. Our second presentation is based on a study that surveyed (in August-September 2020) the experiences of carers of people with developmental disabilities during the pandemic across 12 different countries.