Matt Fletcher points with pride to improvements in availability of community services that lengthen lives of Kansans with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Fletcher, executive director of the advocacy group Interhab, said evidence included rising demand in cities and towns for I/DD care for older people reaching a point in their lives when they grapple with Alzheimer's or dementia. "Until this generation with persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the lifespan was maybe into your mid-40s or early 50s," he said on the Capitol Insider podcast...
