Aging and Health Equity in Autism and Developmental Disabilities Team

AHEADD Team BSW intern Payton graduated today with her BSW and will be working on an adaptive gymnastics program she helped to design after graduation. Congratulations, Payton, and !!

Check out this article on Dr. Bishop-Fitzpatrick’s recent Geriatric Grand Rounds Talk!

Our December CARE Connections newsletter asks "What Does Healthy Aging Look Like for Autistic Adults?"

“We don’t know much, really, about what happens to autistic adults in midlife and beyond,” says UW-Madison School of Social Work professor Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick.

More at: https://mailchi.mp/wisc/care-connections-what-does-healthy-aging-look-like-for-autistic-adults

Check out Dr. Bishop-Fitzpatrick's Slide of the Week: using machine learning to study patterns of health problems in decedents on the autism spectrum.

Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick, PhD – Slide of the Week Dedicated to advancing knowledge about human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases

Welcome to the official page of the Waisman Center's Aging and Health Equity in Autism and Developmental Disabilities (AHEADD) Team! Directed by assistant professor of social work Dr. Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick, the goal of the AHEADD Team is to characterize disparities in and improve health and wellbeing in partnership with adults with autism and other developmental disabilities, and to develop intervention and prevention strategies that will help adults with autism and other developmental disabilities live long, healthy, and self-determined lives in their communities. Check out our new website for more information about our research and our team!

Home Page Directed by assistant professor Dr. Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick, the Waisman Center’s Aging and Health Equity in Autism and Developmental Disabilities (AHEADD) Team studies health and wellbeing–as well as individual and contextual disparities in health and wellbeing–in adults with autism spectru...