Thanks to a combination of improved medical treatments and the trend toward living in the community instead of institutionalization, today’s adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are living much longer than previous generations.

There’s a corner house not far from where we live where the owner, an older African-American woman named Lillian, was often outside gardening or watering in the early evening.

One of the lesser-known facts about former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is that she had a granddaughter born with Down syndrome in 1950.