David O’Driscoll explains why some people with learning disabilities find expressing emotion difficult.
RECENTLY, WHILE visiting a day service for people with learning disabilities, a service user approached me to tell me his mother had died. Login using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
People with learning disabilities in Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin, are being encouraged to get their flu vaccination if they’ve been contacted by their GP.
More people with learning disabilities are living longer but they do not live as long as the rest of the population.
Health and other services need to be better organised to ensure that people with learning disabilities get better healthcare and other services which would help them lead more healthy lives.
Most older people with learning disabilities live at home with their Mum or Dad, who are getting older too and find life more difficult. Care and support services need to adapt as families' needs change, but often this does not happen.
We need to know more about these problems, which people with learning disabilities and their family carers face as they get older.
This article looks at what we know and what more we need to find out to help older people with learning disabilities and their family carers live happier and healthier lives. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
People are living longer, and policymakers are talking about ‘active ageing’.
Active ageing can mean older people being still physically active, still working and still being involved in their local communities.
Most policy makers do not talk about people with learning disabilities and active ageing, but this paper does.
We also say that people with learning disabilities should be involved in inclusive active ageing research. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
We wanted to find out what getting older feels like for people with learning disabilities. We asked seven people with learning disabilities about getting older.
Most of the people had noticed changes as they got older. Some felt sad or angry about it. Some worried about getting older.
People said that it was important to have good friends and to do useful jobs.
Some people did not know much about getting older. Some people wanted to look back over their lives to feel more settled. They might need help with this. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
The concerns of older carers of an adult with disabilities have been well documented. The sudden incapacity or death of the carer can result in a crisis response rather than a planned transition to a chosen sustainable alternative care arrangement for the person with disability. Building on previous ‘Futures Planning’ projects, the aim of this project was to enrich the lives of people with disabilities and their carers whilst ensuring that their wishes for the future are documented to provide security. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Hearing loss has a significant impact on living well and on communication in all adults, with the numbers affected increasing with age, and adults with learning disabilities being at particular risk. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
This discussion paper concludes that whilst there is potential for older people with a learning disability to benefit from policy and practice aimed at improving the lives of older people generally, the tendency for policy to be targeted at specific groups without adequately considering the diversity of those groups often leaves those with a learning disability at the margins of being able to make the most of changes. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Open access. Psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities, despite a lack of evidence for their efficacy. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of pharmacological interventions for challenging behaviour among children with intellectual disabilities.
Almost half of inpatients (1,450 or 48 per cent2) with learning disabilities3 in specialist inpatient units on 30 September 2015 were also receiving inpatient care at the time of previous census collections dating back to 20134. This finding comes from the third annual Learning Disability Census, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) today.
Positive behavioural support (PBS) may be a potentially interesting service for adults with intellectual disabilities and behaviours that challenge, improving outcomes and lowering the cost of care in the longer term. This is the main finding of our initial look at the economic case in collaboration with a small local authority in England, with funding from the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR).
Nurses hold children to administer treatment, prevent treatment interference and undertake clinical assessments, which can sometimes be invasive, as part of their regular duties. Clinical holding ensures this treatment or assessment is carried out safely, however, it has been reported that there is little training available in this area. This article explores the prevalent clinical holding techniques used by nursing staff when caring for children with behaviours that challenge. As an initial insight into what the researchers hope will become a more in-depth 2-year study, this investigation looks to explore current practice when holding children and the factors influencing this. It is hoped that this will inform the development of a training package offered to nurses when caring for these children. Thirteen semi-structured interviews took place with a small group of nurses, which were given thematic analysis. The overarching themes influencing holding practice were the nursing role itself along with intrinsic and external factors. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens
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