Unit
for Development in Intellectual Disabilities (UDID)
University of Glamorgan
Title of Seminar:
“Contacts with Acute General Hospitals. Experiences of Families/Carers
of People with a Learning Disability”
Name of Presenter: Owen
Barr, Senior Lecturer, University of Ulster
Date of Seminar 19 May 2005
Time 1.30 p.m – 3.00
p.m.
Room GT7020
Venue University of Glamorgan
(Glyntaf Campus)
Registration Fee:
£5
Free to UDID members
Methods of Payment: Cheque
payable to “University of Glamorgan” and send to Coral
Seal, Project Manager, Unit for Development in Intellectual Disabilities,
School of Care Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd.
CF37.1DL
E-mail: cseal@glam.ac.uk
Contacts with acute general hospitals. Experiences
of families/carers of people with a learning disability: a review
of progress and future challenges
Presented by:
Dr. Owen Barr
Senior Lecturer in Nursing
Institute of Nursing Research & School of Nursing
University of Ulster
Magee Campus
Londonderry
N Ireland
This presentation
will review evidence of the changing patterns of morbidity and
mortality among people with learning disabilities and consider
the implications of such changes for the contact people with intellectual
disabilities may have with acute general hospital services. The
reported experience of people with intellectual disabilities who
have contact with acute general hospitals will be considered from
the perspective of people with learning disabilities, their carers
and nurses within these services. An overview will be provided
of the development of services to support the effective inclusion
of people with learning disabilities and steps that have been
taken to promote equity of access to healthcare. This presentation
will conclude with a consideration of some key challenges that
remain to achieving the policy objectives of inclusive services
for people with intellectual disabilities and suggest steps that
may be taken to overcome these challenges.
Contact:
Coral
Seal
Project Manager
Unit for Development in Intellectual Disability(UDID)
School of Care Sciences
University of Glamorgan
PONTYPRIDD
CF37 1DL
Tel: 01443 483192
Fax: 01443 483118
e-mail:
cseal@glam.ac.uk
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