Dementia and People with Intellectual Disabilities
This guidance is aimed at clinicians in learning disability and older peoples' mental health services and services for younger people with dementia.
17 April 2015
This report is the result of a joint working group of the Learning Disability Faculty of the British Psychological Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Its main purpose is to enable those working in clinical and social care services to improve the quality of life of people with learning disabilities who develop dementia, by providing guidance to inform assessment, diagnosis, treatment and support. The guidance is aimed at clinicians in learning disability and older peoples' mental health services and services for younger people with dementia. Our main focus has been to highlight the key factors that we consider are the elements of an excellent service, and to help those working in services evaluate how they might help the increasing numbers of people with learning disabilities who are developing dementia given improvements in life-expectancy.