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A new strategy for learning disability care
- Author:
- GOODARE Lee
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 28.10.03, 2003, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on an award winning project by a nurse from Wokingham Primary Care Trust which ensures that patients with learning difficulties have access to primary care services.
Kicking exclusion into touch
- Author:
- LADD Sean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 17(1), August 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at the work of the Thames and Chiltern Trust's rugby inclusion project SCORE. Explains their philosophy and the plans they have for opening up the world of Rugby Union to people with learning difficulties.
Less equal than others?
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.8.03, 2003, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on recent cases which illustrate that people with learning difficulties are still being treated as second class citizens by the health service, despite the government's Valuing People policies and targets for health action plans.
The sexual health needs of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.9.03, 2003, pp.48-49.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explores the strategies required to enable people with learning disabilities to lead healthier sexual lives.
Clinical practice guidelines: redefining the standards of care for infants, children and families with special needs
- Author:
- INTERDISCIPLINARY COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENT AL AND LEARNING DISABILITIES. Clinical Practice Guidelines Workgroup
- Publisher:
- Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 822p.
- Place of publication:
- Bethesda, MD
Medical standards of care exist for many conditions, including diabetes, some cancers, and sexual abuse. A special standard of care also applies to children, who are held to the behaviour that is reasonable for a child of similar age, experience, and intelligence. Increasing numbers of young children are presenting with non-progressive developmental disorders involving compromises in the capacity to relate, communicate, and think. These disorders involve many different areas of developmental functioning, ranging from planning motor actions and comprehending sounds to generating ideas and reflecting on feelings. New research and clinical observations are making it possible to more fully identify these functional developmental capacities and, thereby, characterize each child and family according to their unique profile. Most important, these new observations enable clinicians to individualize assessment and intervention approaches in response to the child- and family-specific question, "what is best for child and family?" Over the years, the disciplines that work with developmental disorders have constructed a large body of research and clinical experience on the functional developmental capacities that are impaired in disorders of relating, thinking and communicating. This knowledge, however, needed to be brought together and organized. In response to this need, The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL) launched an initiative to systematize current clinical knowledge, including both research and the clinical experience of disciplines such as speech pathology, developmental paediatrics, neurology, occupational and physical therapy, psychology, social work, special education, and child psychiatry.
Service for all: making it happen; a report from the Service for All conference held on 18 June 2003 in Edinburgh
- Author:
- SERVICE FOR ALL CONFERENCE
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The conference aimed to bring people together to exchange information, examples of good practice and ideas about making NHS services more accessible. The main elements of the event were to: understand access from the perspective of people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people, what helps and what are the main problems?; identify good practice in Scotland and start a database of good practice; share ideas around practical solutions and on ways to get advice and help from others; and inform ongoing development of policies and advice for the Scottish Executive and the NHS in Scotland on how the NHS and people who use services can work together to improve access. Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the NHS and other service providers have to think actively about how to make services accessible. This legislation is important but making this happen is not just about following legislation. It is about people sharing a vision of what a service for all looks like, of imagining better and working together to make it real.
Policy into practice: growing older with a learning disability
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 21(3), 2003, pp.71-78.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Identifies the major support needs for older people with learning difficulties. Goes on to discuss the impact of two recent policy documents in England: the 'National Service Framework for Older People' and 'Valuing people: a new strategy for learning disability in the 21st Century' on the lives of older people with learning difficulties.
Palliative Care and People With Learning Disabilities: a report from a one day conference on 11 February 2003 to examine and reflect on the issues of palliative care and its provision for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- PALLIATIVE CARE AND PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES CONFERENCE
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 82p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
It was made evident at the conference that participants and presenters valued being able to share experience and to network. It was also clear that there have been few occasions in the past where people from different professional backgrounds had come together and broken down barriers around this important topic. Palliative care experts sometimes felt inadequate and ill prepared when faced with the particular needs of someone with learning disabilities. Similarly many people with knowledge and expertise of living and working with people with learning disabilities knew little about palliative care and supporting someone at this stage of their life. It is important therefore that the information given, and the issues raised, should be disseminated to a much wider number of people than can attend a conference.
Access to secondary care for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HUNT Cath, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.1.04, 2003, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
People with learning difficulties sometimes have problems maintaining their health because hospitals fail to work in an interdisciplinary manner with the specialist learning disability services. This article focuses on a case study where the difficulties in operating on a patient with learning disabilities and mental health problems were overcome through a multidisciplinary and patient centred approach. The case study provides evidence of mainstream health staff and learning disability professionals working together and breaking down barriers to provide a seamless service.
GP and support people's concerns and priorities for meeting the health care needs of individuals with developmental disabilities: a metropolitan and non-metropolitan comparison
- Authors:
- IACONO Teresa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(4), December 2003, pp.353-368.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
General practitioners (GPs) from the Australian state of Victoria and support people were surveyed about their concerns and priorities for meeting the health care needs of people with developmental disabilities. Despite the poor response rate (22% and 27%), sampling adequacy was obtained, and the tools were found to have construct validity. According to the results, GPs had concerns about the assessment and management of people with developmental disability and tended to rely on support people. They knew about many services in their communities, but were less likely to know about non-medical, and government and non-government disability services. Support people reported concerns about health care service providers' lack of knowledge, family stress during periods of hospitalisation, and, particularly for rural respondents, the need to travel to access services. There were relatively few differences in responses from metropolitan versus non-metropolitan respondents, which may be explained by the relative accessibility of Victorian rural towns when compared with other Australian states.