Learning Disability and Other Intellectual Impairments – Meeting Needs Throughout Health Services

Louise L. Clark is Lecturer in Intellectual Impairment and Learning Disability in The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College London. Professor Peter Griffiths is Director of England's National Nursing Research Unit at King's College London. He is deputy editor of the International Journal of Nursing Studies and an associate editor of the journal Evidence Based Nursing

Editors. Contributors. Foreword. 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT (Louise L. Clark and Peter Griffiths). 2 MEETING THE HEALTH NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT (Steve Higgins and Mary O'Toole). 3 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION (Garry Diack and Howard Cohen). 4 PRIMARY CARE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT (Louise Barriball, Allan Hicks, Howard Cohen and Liz Lewry). 5 TRANSITIONS IN THE AGEING POPULATION (Theresa Wiseman, Karen Lowton and Ian Noonan). 6 THE OLDER ADULT, INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AND THE DEMENTIAS (Emma Ouldred and Catherine Bryant). 7 EMERGENCY AND URGENT HOSPITAL-BASED CARE (Ian Noonan and Karen Lowton). 8 ADMISSION TO ACUTE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (Mary O'Toole, Mike Reid and Rob Winterhalder). 9 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL ISSUES (Rob Winterhalder). 10 CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR (Michael Kelly). 11 CONSENT AND CAPACITY (Alison Hobden and Simon Mills). 12 THE FUTURE OF SERVICES FOR INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT (Peter Griffi ths, Rob Winterhalder, Louise L. Clark and Allan Hicks). Index.