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Prevention and social care for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris, ROBERTSON Janet
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 25p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Prevention seeks to eliminate or reduce need, and the current UK preventative agenda focuses on encouraging people to have healthy and active lifestyles and supporting people when a care need first arises to stop problems escalating. The aim of this review was to explore the issue of prevention in relation to adult social care services for people with learning disabilities, looking in particular at options for preventative actions, implications for adult social care practice, and possibilities for modelling the consequences of preventative strategies. It discusses what prevention is, ethical and ideological issues, primary prevention of learning disabilities (including screening and addressing environmental causes) and of the need for adult social care services among people with learning disabilities, and secondary prevention of learning disabilities (through early intervention) and of the need for adult social care services among people with learning disabilities. Key research questions for primary and secondary prevention are identified. The paper concludes that a plausible case can be made for the viability and potential effectiveness of primary and secondary prevention of learning disabilities and of the need for social care support among people with learning disabilities, and that the vast majority of the options for prevention involve altering the social and environmental context in which children grow up.