Performing certain tasks, doing things that used to be easy or maintaining links with the community and other people may become more difficult as people with a learning disability grow older. Care and ...

Appointing a key worker would improve care coordination and help services to communicate clearly with people with a learning disability and their family members and carers. The following measures can ...

People with a learning disability can experience difficulties in communication, sensory processing, comprehension and social functioning. Clinicians and criminal justice staff need to make reasonable ...

Time is perceived by hospital nurses as both an “enemy and friend” for communicating with patients with learning disabilities, according to a study of 15 nurses by the University of Queensland.

For a person to live well with dementia they need a range of appropriate treatments, support and activities. A person with a learning disability and dementia may see a psychiatrist specialising in ...

If you’re one of the 1.2 million Australians with communication disability or among the 44% of Australian adults with low literacy, you may soon find helpful, automated communication assistance online ...

This week is Learning Disability Week. It takes place in the third week of June every year and in 2024, it's running from the 17-23 June. The event, organised by the charity Mencap, and is an ...

People with learning disabilities, particularly those with Down's syndrome, are at increased risk of developing dementia. If a person with a learning disability develops dementia, they will face ...