Advances in the social position of people with learning disabilities have led to a situation
where research and evaluation studies are increasingly required to include the views and …

This article extracts principles from two Surgeon General reports, Closing the Gap: A
National Blueprint to Improve the Health of Persons with Mental Retardation (2002) and Call …

Abstract Title. Using Nominal Group Technique to investigate the views of people with
intellectual disabilities on end‐of‐life care provision Aim. This paper is a report of a study …

Background Children with specific learning disabilities (SpLD) are likely to develop self-
stigma and have a poor quality of life (QoL) because of their poor academic performance …

Accessible summary This article describes the findings of a small‐scale survey investigating
the quality of life of parents of children and adults with an intellectual disability who are …

BACKGROUND: People with mental disorders suffer from impaired quality of life (QoL). In
psychiatric hospital wards nurses are in a close relationship with patients and have good …

The locus of care for people with learning disabilities has transferred from institutional to
community-based services. Increasingly people who have learning disabilities and …

Accessible summary• This article is about learning disability nursing. Some people think that
nurses should be on about health and that some nurses spend too much time working on …

This study focuses on the contributions of a community and campus based day programme
to the quality of life of programme participants with a severe level of intellectual disability …

Social work educators can play an important part in ensuring that the promotion of health
and well-being is firmly on the social work agenda for service users, as well as for students …