{"id":3774,"date":"2025-09-10T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-autism-and-ageing-new-research\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:42:38","slug":"what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-autism-and-ageing-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-autism-and-ageing-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"What we do (and don&#8217;t know) about autism and ageing \u2013 new research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr Gavin Stewart<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Autism is often thought of as a childhood condition, but this is far from true. Autism is a lifelong condition \u2013 and most autistic people are adults. Yet less than 1% of autism research has focused on older autistic people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means we know very little about the needs of autistic people are they grow older \u2013 and whether they face unique health challenges as they age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So to better understand what the current evidence tells us about autism in midlife and old age, a colleague and I recently conducted a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-devpsych-111323-090813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narrative review<\/a> of more than 70 published papers from across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our findings revealed that autistic people are more likely to face poorer health outcomes in midlife and old age compared to their non-autistic peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/news\/what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-autism-and-ageing-new-research?fbclid=PAT01DUAMt-cpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpxQmwc_0nQLxehiaE8qOQZ3pfQJ_FBwjChoT45RuLdhPbwOlrz5HTx2j19lH_aem_XG2-J8SkB9XFXKEZx6KTeA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/news\/what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-autism-and-ageing-new-research?fbclid=PAT01DUAMt-cpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpxQmwc_0nQLxehiaE8qOQZ3pfQJ_FBwjChoT45RuLdhPbwOlrz5HTx2j19lH_aem_XG2-J8SkB9XFXKEZx6KTeA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Gavin Stewart Autism is often thought of as a childhood condition, but this is far from true. Autism is a lifelong condition \u2013 and most autistic people are adults. Yet less than 1% of autism research has focused on older autistic people. This means we know very little about the needs of autistic people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autism-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/elderly-man.xe9196a14.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-YS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}