Service provision for people with learning disability

Forensic psychiatry for people with learning disability

The traditional debate about the association between mental deficiency and crime requires gross simplifications of the concepts of mental disorder and of criminal behaviour. However, a focus on serious interpersonal offences and property offences, including arson, is a reasonable starting point. It would be pointless to include offences which required a high degree of sophis tication or ability...

Role of GPs in service provision for people with schizophrenia.

Psychopharmacology and people with learning disability

originally developed to treat not the mentally handicapped but the mentally ill; those, for example, with schizophrenia, paranoia and other specific conditions, but now the far wider use of these drugs has been challenged because there is evidence that they can produce serious side-effects in addition to the distress already suffered. Future changes in the use of antipsychotic drugs in the UK m...

Constipation in people with learning disability.

How is it diagnosed? clinical features Actively consider constipation as a diagnosis in patients with learning disability. A focused history from the patient or carer regarding bowel habit (including faecal overflow) and abdominal pain is required, with careful attention to ensuring that the patient understands. We suggest that constipation be specifically considered during all learning disabil...

Healthy Lifestyles for people with a Learning Disability - recent items

Background: A large percentage of adults with Down syndrome (DS) are overweight and have extremely low aerobic capacities compared with the general population and persons with intellectual disability without DS. Previous aerobic training intervention studies showed limited potential to significantly ameliorate anthropometrical and cardiovascular variables. The primary purpose of this study was ...