A scoping report on social care for autistic adults

The aim of this rapid scoping exercise has been to identify gaps and priorities for adult social care research in autism in order to help Autistica to:

- Identify key subtopics within adult social care in autism;

- Understand what we currently know from research on social care in autism;

- Identify gaps in the literature and the potential impact of these gaps on the outcomes experienced by autistic people;

- Identify key opportunities for research;

- Make strategic recommendations for impactful research.

The review was intended to include people from across the autism spectrum and to take a broad view of social care. The review was to focus specifically on the quantity and quality of the evidence to social care related interventions, assessing a range of outcome measures but with a particular focus on Autistica’s vision of people living ‘long, happy and healthy lives’. Where possible findings related to cost effectiveness were also to be extracted.