Tizard Learning Disability Review: Volume 18 Issue 3

Growing older together: ageing and people with learning disabilities and their family carers

This article aims to explore the new challenge posed by the first generations of people with learning disabilities who are now living into older age in significant numbers. Most…

Commentary on “Growing older together: ageing and people with learning disabilities and their family carers”

This commentary aims to support Carol Walker and Cally Ward's paper by directing readers to work which could guide their practice with older people with learning disabilities and…

People with learning disabilities and microenterprise

This work aims to examine the outcomes for people with learning disabilities who run microenterprises, and consider how microenterprise might provide an alternative to day centre…

Communication is the key: improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities

This paper aims to introduce the open communication tool (OCT) as described in “From ‘What do you do?’ to ‘a leap of faith’: developing more efficient indirect intervention for…

Commentary on “Communication is the key: improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities”

The purpose of this article is to provide a commentary on Lewer and Harding's article about the use of “the open communication tool”(OCT).

Estimating how many deaths of people with learning disabilities in England could be prevented by better medical care

The purpose of this paper is to use the findings of the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities, to estimate the likely annual number of…

Living with Learning Disabilities, Dying with Cancer – Thirteen Personal Stories

Bereavement, Loss and Learning Disabilities – A Guide for Professionals and Carers

Caring for the Physical and Mental Health of People with Learning Disabilities

Active Support: Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities

Getting on with it