{"id":19904,"date":"2017-08-16T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/national-task-group-chaired-by-tamar-heller-releases-report-on-persons-with-dementia-and-their-caregivers\/"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:45:16","slug":"national-task-group-chaired-by-tamar-heller-releases-report-on-persons-with-dementia-and-their-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/national-task-group-chaired-by-tamar-heller-releases-report-on-persons-with-dementia-and-their-caregivers\/","title":{"rendered":"National task group chaired by Tamar Heller releases report on persons with dementia and their caregivers"},"template":"","news_categories":[12,13],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-19904","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-faculty-and-staff-news","news_categories-publications"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>A report released by an ad hoc working group chaired by DHD professor and department head <strong>Tamar Heller<\/strong> titled, &#8220;Caregiving and IDD and Dementia: Report of the Pre-Summit Workgroup on Caregiving and Intellectual and Development Disabilities&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/rrtcdd.org\/2017\/08\/11\/caregiving-and-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-and-dementia-report-of-the-pre-summit-workgroup-on-caregiving-and-idd\/\">is now available.\u00a0<\/a>It summarizes the findings and recommendations from a pre-summit activity for the National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-page mm-slideout\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div>\u00a0The report was developed by a working group of experts in caregiving, dementia, and intellectual and developmental disabilities, and organized by the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices\u00a0 in partnership with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Developmental Disabilities\u00a0(RRTCDD) and Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Alzheimer\u2019s Association. Heller is the director of the RRTCDD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"The report examines the foundational similarities and differences in focal areas affecting people with dementia, both with and absent intellectual and developmental disabilities","content_author":"Erika Chavez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=19904"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=19904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}