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Resources Promoting Healthy Living for Adults with Disabilities

• Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program. By Beth Marks, Jasmina Sisirak, & Tamar Heller, RRTC on Aging with Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago. Adults with developmental disabilities are at significant risk for health problems. Effective health promotion can improve outcomes. This book shows administrators and service providers within adult day and residential agencies, schools, and other organizations how to increase supports for health education, exercise and nutrition by implementing their own successful program. Available May 2010 from Brookes Publishing (see www.brookespublishing.com).
  
  
• Health Matters: The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities. By Beth Marks, Jasmina Sisirak, & Tamar Heller, RRTC on Aging with Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago. This research-based, field-tested curriculum shows professionals how to help adults with disabilities live healthy lifestyles and make the best choices about health, exercise, and nutrition. Available March 2010 from Brookes Publishing (see www.brookespublishing.com).
  
  
• Let’s Talk About Health Series. The Arc of New Jersey has published three booklets in this series written for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their caregivers, about health screenings and prevention for three types of cancer: breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer. The booklets are available online at www.arcnj.org/information/issues.html; scroll down to “Let’s Talk About Health.”

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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/231). Citation: Heller, T., Stafford, P., Davis, L.A., Sedlezky, L., & Gaylord, V. (Eds.). (Winter 2010). Impact: Feature Issue on Aging and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 23(1). [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration].
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