Health promotion for people with learning disabilities in the community: Encouraging people with learning disabilities to visit a gym for regular excercise helped them to develop self-awareness, confidence and communication skills
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Carers often assume that people with learning disabilities living in the community are fulfilling the objectives of O'Brien's accomplishments. However there is no guarantee of real quality of life and it is important to encourage people to be active members of the community. Cases studies, that encouraged people with learning disabilities to visit a gym for regular exercise, provide positive examples and demonstrate O'Brien's accomplishments, as well as health promotion, which provided an effective developmental model.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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Primary health care for people with learning difficulties
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People with learning difficulties are being denied accesses to primary health care in the UK because fewer are seen by doctors and health screening is often given a low priority. A survey of UK doctors found 85% thought primary health care for people with learning difficulties could be improved. Community nurses and learning difficulty nurses are ideally placed to ensure people with learning difficulties have full access to the range of services on offer, such as family planning and health screening.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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A person-focused system for people with learning disabilities
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The development of a new learning disability care planning system in Cornwall, UK has helped to involve patients in their own long-term care plans by focusing on their wishes and aspirations for life. Care plan systems traditional focus on the clinical side of a learning disabled person's medical and social needs, without taking a more holistic approach which allows the individual to put across their needs and wishes for the future.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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