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.
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