Setting National Goals for Health Equity for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Across the Life Course

Health inequities persist for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) across the life course. At the 2024 National Goals on Health Equity working meeting a group of seven subject matter experts (SMEs), consisting of representatives from academia, government and non-profit organizations, worked together in the strand on issues of adulthood covering topics such as life transitions, reproductive health, and aging. The SMEs’ discussion served to propose national goals to promote health equity among adults with IDD in the next decade. In addition to detailed descriptions of these goals, this article presents an overview of health inequities among adults with IDD, and a description of themes of the group’s discussion that informed the national goals.