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Dementia and people with intellectual disabilities: guidance on the assessment, diagnosis, interventions and support of people with intellectual disabilities who develop dementia
- Authors:
- BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 146
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Guidance for professionals working in clinical and social care services to help improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities who develop dementia, focusing on assessment, diagnosis, interventions and support. The guidance is aimed at clinicians in intellectual disabilities and older peoples’ mental health services and services for younger people with dementia. It is a revision to the original joint British Psychological Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2009) guidance on dementia and people with intellectual disabilities and has been updated using both the current research literature and the experience of senior clinicians working in the field. The guidance covers the following key topics: epidemiology; baseline assessment and monitoring; possible reasons for apparent decline in functioning; clinical presentation of dementia; assessment; establishing the diagnosis and breaking the news; additional health co-morbidities associated with dementia; conceptual understanding of the dementia process; philosophy of care; environments; meeting changing needs/interventions; medication; safe eating and drinking; palliative care and end of life issues; capable commissioning for people with intellectual disabilities and dementia; capable support; and outcomes. (Edited publisher abstract)