Little is understood about how the aging process affects persons with cerebral palsy. Adults with cerebral palsy want to anticipate the type, severity, and course of age-associated changes that are likely to occur as they grow older. There is little information available about how the aging process, age-related diseases, and the existence of a lifelong disability impact on the life and functional ability of persons with cerebral palsy. A national colloquium addressing these issues brought together health care practitioners, researchers, service providers, and persons with cerebral palsy. Recommendations were made to make health care and health care resources more available and accessible, to develop best practice guidelines, to determine effective strategies for prevention of secondary conditions, and to make information available to persons with cerebral palsy as well as to health care and service providers.
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Overeynder et al. (1998) studied this question.