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• Title:Understanding learning disability and dementia : developing effective interventions / Diana Kerr.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kerr, Diana.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WL340.2 .K41 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Medical Subjects:Learning Disorders--complications.
  Dementia--complications.
  Patient Care.
  
• Description:198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-189) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9781843104421
  1843104423
  
• Contents:1. What is a learning disability?
  2. What is dementia?
  3. Getting a diagnosis
  4. Working with different realities
  5. Maintaining good communication
  6. Therapeutic interventions
  7. Challenging behaviour
  8. Responding to the pain needs of people with a learning disability and dementia
  9. experiences and needs of peers
  10. Supporting people to eat well
  11. Creating supportive physical environments
  12. role of technology
  13. Late and end stage care
  14. Issues and concerns for relatives
  15. Some issues in relation to medication
  16. Models of care
  plea for the future.