Matthew P. Janicki, Ph.D., is a research associate professor of human development at the Institute of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as Director for Technical Assistance at the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Aging with Mental Retardation at that university. He also is a research professor and co-director at the Centre on Intellectual Disabilities at the University at Albany (New York). Formerly, he was Director for Aging and Special Populations at the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Dr. Janicki was a Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation public policy leadership fellow, spending a… sabbatical year at the National Institute on Aging and the U.S. Senate. He was responsible for founding several aging and intellectual disabilities interest groups within American and international intellectual and gerontological professional societies. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of aging, dementia, public policy, and rehabilitation with regard to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and has lectured and provided training in aging and intellectual disabilities around the world. Dr. Janicki is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities.