Editorial
| Published date | 03 July 2017 |
| Pages | 133-133 |
| Date | 03 July 2017 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-07-2017-0029 |
| Author | Raistrick W. Turton |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Learning & intellectual disabilities |
Raistrick W. Turton
Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 4. It includes papers on a variety of topics that point to the diversity
of needs presented to services.
Two papers address dementia. This is a topic that we must expect to grow in terms of papers as
the changing demographics of people who have intellectual disabilities and the increasing
expectation that services will respond fulsomely to people who have intellectual disabilities and
develop dementia. The two papers published in this issue look at dementia from different angles
and at different scales. Shoostari et al. present and discuss population data that describe the
diagnostic prevalence in Manitoba, Canada. It joins an expanding list of similar studies
conducted in other geographical areas, which collectively inform us about the prevalence and
guide the thinking of those who plan to study prevalence in their own parts of the world. At the
other end of the scale, Bayley et al. report the results of an evaluation of one specialist memory
clinic illustrating the means by which such services can be examined.
Also at the “close-up”end of the scale, Sheehan et al. report an evaluation of a psychotropic
medication group in a low-secure hospital setting. This is useful to us for its illustration of method,
and also for the recommendations the authors offer to other services that plan to develop and
evaluate similar groups.
Brown et al. investigated the knowledge of public defenders (state-appointed defence lawyers)
about fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD), and also their needs for further education of this
topic. Many people who have FASD will also have intellectual disabilities and are at risk of coming
conflict with the law. These are issues that many professionals working in intellectual disability
services have little knowledge of, and all whose work intersects with medico-legal and forensic
processes may be as much in need of information as Brown et al.’s public defenders were.
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