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Heslop, Pauline; Byrne, Victoria; Calkin, Rachel; Gielnik, Kamila; Huxor, Avon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
In England, the national mortality review programme for people with intellectual disabilities, the LeDeR programme, was established in 2015. The programme supports local areas to review the deaths of all people with intellectual disabilities aged 4 years and over. Each death has an initial review; if indicated, a full multi-agency review takes…
Descriptors: Mortality Rate, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Health Services
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Söderström, Sylvia; Bakken, Hege; Østby, May; Ellingsen, Karl E. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
The implementation of technology in home-based services takes place in contextualised socio-material practices negotiated through interactions between a diversity of actors. Prerequisites for succeeding in this process are time and competence, and that use of the technology is experienced as meaningful, for both the support staff and the resident.…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Caregivers
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Auberry, Kathy; Cullen, Deborah – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Based on the results of the Surrogate Decision-Making Self Efficacy Scale (Lopez, 2009a), this study sought to determine whether nurses working in the field of intellectual disability (ID) experience increased confidence when they implemented the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) Seizure Algorithm during telephone triage. The…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice, Seizures, Computation