Bone health medication and adults with intellectual disabilities: an audit of bone health medication dispensed by a pharmacist in long-term care

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette Flood
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Bone Health ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

scholarly journals Transitioning to long-term care for older adults with intellectual disabilities: A concept analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 174462952110418
Author(s):  
Caroline Egan ◽  
Helen Mulcahy ◽  
Corina Naughton
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Older Person ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

Aim: To undertake a concept analysis of transitioning to long-term care for older adults with intellectual disabilities. Background: Individuals with an intellectual disability are experiencing increased longevity which is associated with an increase in transitions in later life to long-term care. Their experience of later life transitions is likely to be different to the general older population. Methodology: Concept Analysis was undertaken using the Walker and Avant framework. Results: Eight studies met the inclusion criteria. Defining attributes are an older person with intellectual disability; a planned relocation to a long-term care facility; person-centred; and supported decision-making. Conclusion: There is a dearth of empirical evidence and theorisation on this concept. Transitions of this nature have been inadequately informed by the perspective of the older person with an intellectual disability, and future research and practice requires greater efforts to include their voice.

Recruiting Out-of-Home Caregivers for Children with an Intellectual Disability in the Shared Family Care Program

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Volard ◽  
Christine Baxter ◽  
Cliff da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Recent Evaluation

Recruiting caregivers for children with an intellectual disability who require out-of-home respite or longer-term care is a problem which has challenged service providers for many years. This paper summarises findings of a recent evaluation of Shared Family Care, a foster care program in Victoria for children with intellectual disabilities/developmental delay. Current recruiting is not succeeding in meeting the demand for either respite, short term or long term care. Findings of the evaluation suggest that factors such as use of appropriate media, and running effective recruitment campaigns is only part of the answer. It is also important at every stage to address caregiver satisfaction with the job and employ strategies to find potential caregivers in the community.

Practice resources

2018 ◽  
pp. 573-586
Author(s):  
Owen Barr ◽  
Bob Gates
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Term Care ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Nursing Roles

Nursing for people with intellectual disabilities has moved from a narrowly defined role, within long-term care, to a much broader role within the National Health Service and beyond. It is a health profession supported and endorsed by many as unique in its breadth of employment base, located as it is among the various sectors. The role of nurses for people with intellectual disabilities spans community support specialists, liaison nursing roles between services and agencies, and roles in secure or forensic health settings, and these roles offer support across all age ranges. With such exciting possibilities, in practice come challenges such as where to access up-to-date resources that will support nurses for people with intellectual disabilities and students in their practice. Where a student finds new resources for their jurisdiction, they may find it useful to append their own notes to the sections within this chapter; the layout of the book has been designed for students to make relevant notes on.

scholarly journals Policy, plans and pathways: the ‘crisis’ transition to post-parental care for people ageing with intellectual disabilities in rural Australian carescapes

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 836-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIDGET GARNHAM ◽  
LIA BRYANT ◽  
PAUL RAMCHARAN ◽  
NILAN YU ◽  
VALERIE ADAMS
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

ABSTRACTThe concurrent ageing of parental care-givers and people with intellectual disabilities is driving academic and social welfare concern for a post-parental care ‘crisis’. The ‘crisis’ typically pertains to a transition from primary care in the family home precipitated by the death or incapacity of older parents without a pre-planned pathway to post-parental care. This crisis is amplified in rural communities given low service engagement with families and a deficit of disability-supported accommodation and services. Academics, service providers and policy makers have responded through a problematisation of post-parental care planning. This focus continues to normalise informal care, burdens families with responsibility for planning, and diverts attention from structural deficits in the socio-political carescape. This paper attends to the Australian policy landscape in which long-term care-giving for families living with intellectual disability is enmeshed. It contends that the dyadic and didactic model of informal long-term care has profound implications for social service support and post-parental care planning. Problematisation of carers’ ‘need’ to relinquish primary care and for people with intellectual disabilities to transition to independent and supported living is necessary to unsettle the dominant policy and service discourse around the provision of services to sustain informal care-giving. Innovation is then needed to forge pathways of support for families in rural communities planning on continuing, transitioning and transforming care arrangements across the lifespan.

Working With Resistance and Encouraging Buy-In to New Programs

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Sara Joffe
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Optimal Outcomes ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist

In order to best meet the needs of older residents in long-term care settings, clinicians often develop programs designed to streamline and improve care. However, many individuals are reluctant to embrace change. This article will discuss strategies that the speech-language pathologist (SLP) can use to assess and address the source of resistance to new programs and thereby facilitate optimal outcomes.

Feeding Dependency Issues in the Long-Term Care Environment

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Carol Winchester ◽  
Cathy Pelletier ◽  
Pete Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Environment
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