Health, Intellectual Disabilities
Psychologists promoting and supporting the physical health of people with learning disabilities
These guidelines were developed to ensure that psychologists play an active part in bringing an end to the health inequalities faced by people with a learning disability (intellectual disability).
11 December 2023
It has long been evident that many people with a learning disability die younger than is taken for granted in the general population, with conditions that could have been prevented or treated.
Despite this being widely known and vocally abhorred amongst learning disability professionals for many years, there has been a longstanding and seemingly insurmountable impasse in bringing about change.