Developmental Disability and Ageing

This handbook is aimed at clinicians and others who are engaged in caring for ageing adults with developmental disabilities. It is intended to inform understanding, promote assessment, assist in care planning, and especially to improve everyday living for this needy but sadly often neglected group of vulnerable individuals. The authors base their guidance on evidence, focusing on important insights that are likely to be valuable to the clinician interested in the care of the individuals on whose behalf the book has been prepared. A brief general overview of the area is followed by a detailed consideration of dementia in the context of developmental disability, including cause, diagnosis, assessment and natural history, with case examples. The next chapters concentrate on two of the most high-profile of all the major groups of developmental disabilities, with their own unique patterns of ageing: Down syndrome and cerebral palsy. Other less common causal syndromes, and their characteristics with ageing, are then reviewed. This is followed by a detailed guide to drug treatment issues in this group. The final chapter considers wider issues of psychosocial intervention and life planning for the ageing individual with developmental disability.

ISBN 1898683611   Pages 144 ISBN13 9781898683612 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Mac Keith Press   Weight (grammes) 378 Imprint Mac Keith Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Series title Practical Guide from the Mac Keith Press Publication date 23 Jan 2009   Height (mm) 239 Library of Congress HV1570   Width (mm) 172 DEWEY 362.3   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Overview: Development Disability and Ageing by Gregory O'Brien and Lewis Rosenbloom
2		Dementia in Developmental Disability by Mohammed Nagdee and Gregory O'Brien		10
3		Ageing in Down Syndrome by Tom Berney		31
4		Cerebral Palsy and Ageing by Gregory O'Brien and Alf Bass and Lewis Rosenbloom		39
5		Ageing in Other Syndromes by Mare Woodbury-Smith		53
6		Drug Treatment for Common Problems among Elderly People with Developmental Disabilities (including Dementia) by Christopher Ince		72
7		Living with Ageing in Developmental Disability by Claire Middleton and Gregory O'Brien		90
		References		115
		Index		124

"This book should be recommended reading for all those working with people with learning disabilities. Such an easy-to-read and comprehensive account of the subject is much needed." (The Journal of the International Psychogeriatrics, 2011)

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