An Essential Guide to Caring for People With a Learning Disab... - 9781032377599

An Essential Guide to Caring for People With a Learning Disability and Autistic PeopleEnabling a Cross-Field Approach\nAuthor(s): Helen Jones, Andrea Page, Samantha Salmon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032377599, 978-1032377599\nSynopsis\nThis essential text presents the core information that all nursing students and apprentices along with other key health and social care professions, regardless of field, need to know about caring for people with a learning disability and autism. It outlines some of the key challenges faced by people with a learning disability and autism, and ways in which good care can improve their quality of life. People with a learning disability and autism are more likely to need support with aspects of everyday life, be marginalised within society, including within health and social care, and die younger than the rest of the population. They are also more likely to have additional commun.