{"id":93030,"date":"2026-08-17T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93030"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:03:56","slug":"people-with-severe-intellectual-disabilities-live-24-years-less-on-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/17\/people-with-severe-intellectual-disabilities-live-24-years-less-on-average\/","title":{"rendered":"People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on average"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2ajiDP.img?w=768&h=614&m=6\" alt=\"A meeting of a book club aimed at people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Photograph: Chris Stephens\/AP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People living with severe intellectual disabilities are dying 24 years younger on average than the wider population, a study has found, with 40% of such deaths being avoidable.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/general\/people-with-severe-intellectual-disabilities-live-24-years-less-on-average\/ar-AA2ajMac?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a836851b5464968985d55bb2019e3bd&ei=13\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>People living with severe intellectual disabilities are dying 24 years younger on average than the wider population, a study has found, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/brain-xray.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93031,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93030\/revisions\/93031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}