Browsing by Subject "Intellectual disability"
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Identifying and managing incidents of minor theft within a service for individuals with intellectual disabilities
(2019)Background: Models of service delivery for adults with an intellectual disability in Ireland increasingly focus on delivering services within local communities. Preparation for this transition often focuses on practical ... -
Identifying schizophrenia patients who carry pathogenic genetic copy number variants using standard clinical assessment: retrospective cohort study.
(2020)Background: Copy number variants (CNVs) play a significant role in disease pathogenesis in a small subset of individuals with schizophrenia (~2.5%). Chromosomal microarray testing is a first-tier genetic test for many ... -
Identifying the foci for nursing in Irish intellectual disability services
(2004)Many of the attempts to classify nursing phenomena (or diagnoses) have been developed within the context of acute/chronic general nursing, and may , as such, be seen to represent only a subsection of the profession as ... -
Identifying the key concerns of Irish persons with intellectual disability
(2014)Background: Internationally, people with intellectual disability are socially marginalized, and their rights under the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are often ignored. Aims: ... -
Identifying the Key Concerns of Irish Persons with Intellectual Disability.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Internationally, people with intellectual disability are socially marginalized, and their rights under the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are often ignored. AIMS: ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Older Adults with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Governments around the world took unprecedented actions to implement public health measures to control the spread of ... -
The impact on social relationships of moving from congregated settings to personalized accommodation
(2017)A natural experiment contrasted the social relationships of people with intellectual disabilities (n = 110) before and after they moved from congregated settings to either personalized accommodation or group homes. Contrasts ... -
Intellectual Disability, Art and Identity: A qualitative exploration of the experiences of professional artists with intellectual disabilities
(2022)Previous research suggests that participation in the arts and/or disability arts can positively influence individuals’ affirmation, or a positive embracement, of a disability identity; however, until more recently, persons ... -
Interventions for Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Adults with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
(2020)Feeding and swallowing disorders are prevalent in adults with Intellectual Disability (ID) and can potentially lead to discomfort, malnutrition, dehydration, aspiration, and choking. Most common interventions ... -
Jesus and the Portrayal of People with Disabilities in the Scriptures
(2013)This article explores the role of Christian scripture as a basis for understanding the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland. Historically, Irish services for people with intellectual disabilities were ... -
Journeys from discomfort to comfort: how do university students experience being taught and assessed by adults with intellectual disabilities?
(2021)From 2016-17, academics at a leading Irish university collaborated with a group of self- advocates with intellectual disabilities to co-design, co-deliver, and co-assess an entire disability module for third-year undergraduate ... -
A Longitudinal Examination of the Physical Health and Ageing of Individuals with Down syndrome in Ireland
Background: Over the past three decades the life expectancy of people with Down syndrome (DS) has dramatically increased with improvements in health service delivery, better knowledge, health care and advocacy. With increased ... -
Men's Bones Matter Too, a Cross Sectional Study Examining Bone Health among Men with Intellectual Disability in Ireland.
(2021)Globally between 30-40% of all osteoporotic fractures occur among men, with a quarter of all hip fractures, the most serious complication of osteoporosis, occurring in men. Among men of 50 years of age or older, osteoporotic ... -
The Methodological Approach to the Co-Creation of Online Health Education with and for Individuals with Intellectual Disability
(2021)Background: Health inequalities are evident among adults with intellectual disability. Two large national longitudinal studies have highlighted the paucity of health education among people with intellectual disability. ... -
Missing Links: The Somatechnics of Decolonisation
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National Forum of Inclusive Higher Education Providers – together is better
(National Centre for Guidance in Education, 2019)The Inclusive National Higher Education Forum (INHEF), is a national interest group comprised of higher education providers and other professionals interested in supporting access routes and inclusive post secondary ... -
Patterns of multimorbidity in an ageing population of people with an intellectual disability: Results from the intellectual disability supplement to the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (IDS-TILDA)
(2013)Multimorbidity (2 or more chronic conditions) is being widely studied in older populations and this study explores both the relevance of emerging conceptualizations and the extent to which multimorbidity is a feature of ... -
Patterns of multimorbidity in an older population of persons with an intellectual disability: results from the intellectual disability supplement to the Irish longitudinal study on aging (IDS-TILDA).
(2013)Multimorbidity (2 or more chronic conditions) is being widely studied in older populations and this study explores both the relevance of emerging conceptualizations and the extent to which multimorbidity is a feature of ...