The role of the nurse in assessing mobility decline in older people with intellectual disabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Nelson ◽  
Eileen Carey
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Health Status and Activities of Daily Living and Walking in Older People With Intellectual Disabilities

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Michael Henderson ◽  
James P. Acquilano ◽  
Jon C. Meccarello ◽  
Philip W. Davidson ◽  
Laura M. Robinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Older People ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Time of paradoxes: what the twentieth century was like for people with intellectual disabilities living in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Monika Mužáková ◽  
Iva Strnadová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Czech Lands

This chapter explores life in Czechoslovakia (later Czech Republic) in the 20th Century for people with intellectual disabilities. It opens at the time that the Czech lands were part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. This was a period marked by efforts to increase the quality of institutional care for people with intellectual disabilities. The authors then describe the period of communism. They discuss the controversial nature of an Education Act (1948), which contained a well-established network of special schools for students with disabilities as a regular part of the school system, and yet it introduced the concept of “being uneducable” for students with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. The authors also debate the role of a parental movement in advocacy for the rights of people with intellectual disabilities. The chapter concludes with the period after the fall of communism, when compulsory education was introduced for all children with no exception.

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