Positive Initiatives for People with Learning Difficulties: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

by Roberta Astor, Karen Jeffereys

Overview

This multidisciplinary volume raises contemporary and controversial issues relating to care provision for people with learning difficulties. Addressing the changing market economy of care and taking as its theme the provision of 'Health for All', this book explores a range of issues with particular relevance for the quality of life enjoyed by people with learning difficulties. All the authors have direct involvement with the realities of practice as well as a thorough understanding of the relevant research and policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333672082
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/18/2017
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

ROBERTA ASTOR MA, Cert Further & Higher Education, RNT, RNLD, RGN, RMN is currently working as a Staff Nurse in an intensive care acute mental health unit, Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust. She has been involved with Learning Disability nursing practice and education since 1973 and has worked as a practitioner, a clinical teacher, a researcher and a university lecturer, all within the Portsmouth area.

KAREN JEFFEREYS State Registered Dietician, MSc Applied Psychology (Learning Disabilites) is Chief Dietician, Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust. Karen manages a team of dieticians to provide a specialist service for children with learning difficulties. She has been responsible for initiating numerous service developments to improve the health of people with learning difficulties through diet and health promotion.
ROBERTA ASTOR MA, Cert Further & Higher Education, RNT, RNLD, RGN, RMN is currently working as a Staff Nurse in an intensive care acute mental health unit, Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust. She has been involved with Learning Disability nursing practice and education since 1973 and has worked as a practitioner, a clinical teacher, a researcher and a university lecturer, all within the Portsmouth area.

KAREN JEFFEREYS State Registered Dietician, MSc Applied Psychology (Learning Disabilites) is Chief Dietician, Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust. Karen manages a team of dieticians to provide a specialist service for children with learning difficulties. She has been responsible for initiating numerous service developments to improve the health of people with learning difficulties through diet and health promotion.

Table of Contents

Introduction; R.Astor & K.Jeffereys
Adding "Years to Life", but Adding Life to Years?; S.Carter
A Model for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles; R.Astor & K.Jeffereys
Community Nursing: Addressing the Emotional and Sexual Health Needs of People with Learning Difficulties; D.Sant Angelo
Making a Reality of Partnership for People with Learning Difficulties in Residential Settings; C.Goble
Supporting Women with Learning Difficulties in the Antenatal Period; J.McCray
Empowerment for People with a Visual and Learning Difficulty; M.Nash
Caring to Hear: Providing an Effective Service for People with Learning Difficulties and Hearing Impairment; C.Jenkins & S.Shearman
People with Down's Syndrome who Develop Alzheimer's Disease: How Can Services Respond to this 'Double Disability'?; R.Marler
Nutrition Standards in Small Community Houses: Quality Considerations for Residential Services; K.Jeffereys
Premise for Possibilities; R.Astor.