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Dementia Action Alliance: Dementia and Learning Disabilities

09/10/2017 / Lisa Richardson / Leave a comment
Dementia Action Alliance recently launched the campaign From Seldom Heard to Seen and Heard with the aim to improve outcomes for those living with dementia and their carers who come from seldom heard groups including learning disabilities

Read the roundtable discussion and briefing here.

Blood tests for people with learning disabilities: making reasonable adjustments

09/10/2017 / Lisa Richardson / Leave a comment
England have updated this resource which contains ideas and good practice in relation to the provision of reasonable adjustments relating to taking blood from someone with learning disabilities.

 

More information here.

BBC News: Melissa Mathieson murder: Bristol care home killing was preventable

09/10/2017 / Lisa Richardson / Leave a comment

In October 2014, Jason Conroy murdered Melissa Mathieson, 18, at a Bristol home providing special care for adults.

A serious case review into her death found care home staff had not acted on recommendations in a forensic report.

Read the news item here.

Community Care: The Mental Capacity Act 10 years on: ‘It is still misapplied and used against people’

09/10/2017 / Lisa Richardson / Leave a comment

But the legislation has made social work with adults more relevant and made practice more person-centred, writes Ian Burgess

Read more here.

Community Care: ‘The Mental Capacity Act has brought about dramatic changes’

09/10/2017 / Lisa Richardson / Leave a comment

On the tenth anniversary of the legislation coming into force, Baroness Ilora Finlay, chair of the National Mental Capacity Forum, reflects on its impact

Read the article here.

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