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Ageing matters: pathways for older people with a learning disability
— Unit one: Introduction: working with older people with a learning disability | | Author(s) | John Harris , Lucille Bennett, James Hogg |
| Corporate Author | British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) |
| Publisher | British Institute of Learning Disabilities, Kidderminster, 1997 |
| Pages | 25 pp (1 of 6 units) |
| Source | BILD, Wolverhampton Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire DY10 3PP. |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Personnel ; Training [welfare work] ; Instruction handbooks. |
| Annotation | This is the first of six independent study units for staff working directly with older people with learning difficulties. These units provide: basic information about ageing and learning disability; advice on good practice; suggestions for working with individual service users; guidance on liaison with other professionals; and an overview of policy issues. This unit covers attitudes towards ageing, the effects of increasing age on people with a learning disability, and helping to adapt as they grow older. It includes at various points activities and points for practice, as part of the process of independent study. In organisations where staff are registered for a National Vocational Qualification, written work based on these materials may be submitted as part of an NVQ or SCOTVEC portfolio. The British Institute of Learning Difficulties (BILD) us currently undertaking a Distance Learning Development Project, which will permit those who wish to submit course work based on this and the other five units to register for formal qualification. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980203212 B |
| Classmark | E4: QM: QW: 69M |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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