Horizon Europe – Improving the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families
The objective of this topic is to explore new ways to improve the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families and to reduce to the maximum possible the negative impact of the disability in their daily lives from different perspectives, such as medical, technological, digital or others. A key element to improve their quality of life is to prevent the worsening of the disability or conditions originating it. Thus, research needs to look from different perspectives into finding the causes of the disease(s) originating the disability and/or reducing as much as possible its level of severity.
Innovative solutions are needed to provide novel medicines, diagnoses, treatments, protocols, technologies or digital solutions, etc. that can help in an early stage to prevent the worsening of the intellectual disability and/or related co-morbidities, reverse or reduce it, and to improve the autonomy of affected persons and relieve their carers.