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Caring for people with learning disabilities: the attitudes and perceptions of general nurses
Literature review examining general nurses' caring for people with learning disabilities
16 May 2019
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Positive behaviour support standards audit in an assessment and treatment unit for people with an intellectual disability
This article describes how PBS standards were audited in an assessment and treatment unit
14 May 2019
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Service provision in Scotland for people with an intellectual disability and dementia: adherence to good practice guidelines
Adherence to good practice guidelines for people with an intellectual disability and dementia
19 Mar 2019
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‘Sweet dreams’: an evidence-based approach to effective sleep hygiene maintenance for people with an intellectual disability
An evidence-based approach to determine and enable the sleeping needs of people with ID
14 Mar 2019
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Our series about conditions that constitute a syndrome looks at tuberous sclerosis
14 Mar 2019
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Effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction course on the psychological well-being of individuals with an intellectual disability
Practice of mindfulness exercises may be important component of increasing well-being
07 Mar 2019
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Cleft lip

A series about conditions with common symptoms that constitute a syndrome

28 Feb 2019
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Consanguinity

Consanguinity is defined as the result of a sexual reproduction of two related individuals

25 Jan 2019
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Drug-induced dysphagia and the high-risk effect on people with intellectual disabilities

Research indicates that aspirate pneumonia as a result of dysphagia can be one of the lead

24 Jan 2019
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Developing strategic health facilitators to increase the uptake of annual learning disability health checks

People who have a learning disability have increased health risks compared to the general

23 Jan 2019
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A series about conditions with common symptoms that constitute syndromes

10 Jan 2019

People with a learning disability often experience health inequalities. Inquiries and reports have detailed the possible catastrophic consequences of inadequate healthcare for people with learning disabilities, their families and carers.

22 Nov 2018

The Health Equality Framework (HEF) is an outcome measurement tool to record any work that learning disability nurses and other clinicians undertake to improve or stabilise the health and --well-being of adults who have learning disabilities.

19 Nov 2018

The adult community learning disability team in Cornwall made a commitment to provide a better service for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).

13 Nov 2018

A series about conditions with common symptoms that constitute syndromes

A series about conditions with common symptoms that constitute syndromes

29 Oct 2018

A lifelong learning Erasmus intensive programme promoting inclusion of persons with disabilities has involved collaboration between universities in different countries.

02 Oct 2018

This article celebrates one of the most important books in the history of intellectual disability, The Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally Retarded, by the American anthropologist Robert Edgerton.

20 Sep 2018

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