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- Authors:
- MCCRAY Janet, CARTER Sid
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 9.6.99, 1999, pp.47-49.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on what primary care nurses and leaders can do to help people with learning disabilities gain full access to health care services.
Meeting the health care needs of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- THORNTON Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.5.97, 1997, pp.52-54.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article looks at the findings of a study on how primary health care teams saw the health care needs of people with learning disabilities and how those needs were being met. Among the issues discussed is the significance of relevant education in an interdisciplinary setting and the potential shift of some specialist community learning disability nurses to the primary health care team.
Better health care for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- LAWRIE Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 10.5.95, 1995, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Highlights some of the factors that have prevented people with learning disabilities from having appropriate access to health care and health promotion services. Outlines practical ways to encourage active participation and the development of appropriate learning strategies for people with learning disabilities.
Dimensions of learning disability
- Editors:
- GATES Bob, PEACOCK Colin
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 394p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on the health aspects of services for people with learning difficulties, and on the role nurses have to play within this. Contains sections on: the nature of learning disability; health and learning disability; educational dimensions; biological dimensions; psychosocial dimensions; cultural and spiritual aspects; political and economic dimensions; national and international issues; and contemporary and new horizons in learning disability research.