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Community care for people with learning disabilities: deficits and future plans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nick Bouras ,
Geraldine Holt  and
Shaun Gravestock
Nick Bouras*
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, UMDS-Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
Geraldine Holt
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, UMDS-Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
Shaun Gravestock
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, UMDS-Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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The challenge facing services for people with learning disabilities is to create the environment in which clients have the best quality of life without preconception. The heterogenous nature of people with learning disabilities requires diversity of care provisions sensitive to their individual needs. The different demonstration and presentation of their mental health needs has influenced the development of services and different models of specialist services have emerged with local variations. There is still, however, a great deal of confusion on both ideological and service delivery level. Although services for people with learning disabilities have succeeded in resettling people in the community and supporting them in developing adaptive skills, unfortunately these successes are not matched by equally effective and efficient services to those with mental health needs.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , March 1995 , pp. 134 - 137
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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