Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Patient-centred primary care of adults with severe and profound intellectual and developmental disabilities
... Editor’s key points The patient-physician relationship is an important aspect of family medicine, but those with severe intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) have very [r] ...
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Self Pereception of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
... with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) may view themselves as children; indeed, they are often treated in a childlike manner by others, including family members, agency staff, ...
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Primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... a developmental disability ...mental Disabilities Primary Care Initiative Scientific and Editorial Staff, ...with intellectual and develop- mental disabilities across the ...
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Improving transition to adulthood for adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... a developmental pediatrician and Medical Chief of Staff at Surrey Place Centre and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of ...the Developmental Disabilities Primary ...
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Implementation of Health Links coordinated care plans for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... There are unique considerations for family physicians when caring for adults with IDD, including managing complex communication, health, and social factors. Care coordination is one approach to improving and assisting in ...
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Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as Organ Transplantation Recipients
... with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) have often been excluded as potential recipients of organ ...of intellectual disability (ID) in donors is not in the scope of this ...of ...
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Teaching family medicine residents about care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... This article describes the outline of a teaching pro- gram at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont, intended to increase the confidence and competence of fam- ily medicine residents in their care of adults with IDD. The ...
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Comprehensive preventive care assessments for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... comprehensive preventive care should be a priority for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), many patients do not receive such care. This study aimed to assess if the ...
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What adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities say they need to access annual health examinations
... and Developmental Disabilities research program, and Secretary to the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental ...
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Primary care of adults with severe and profound intellectual and developmental disabilities
... 16. Stringer K, Terry AL, Ryan BL, Pike A. Patient-centred primary care of adults with severe and profound intellectual and developmental disabilities. Patient-caregiver- physician relationship. Can ...
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Approach to providing care for aging adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... A developmental approach to understanding symp- tom presentation and diagnostic issues helps practitioners remember that, although age is a risk factor for many ill- nesses, adults with IDD might present with ...
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Managing complexity in care of patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... eventually lead to a sense of futility (“I can’t really help here”). However, by unpacking additional considerations that contribute to the complexities of caring for a patient with IDD, family physicians can apply their ...
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Improving the quality of primary care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... A Health Check is a proactive strategy to comprehen- sively address the health needs of adults with IDD in primary care. In this study, in the context of Canadian family practice, the Health Check was associated with ...
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Exploring the prenatal experience of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... Antenatal records for about two-thirds of the pregnancies in this study identified poor social support and parenting concerns, and about half identified family violence as a concern[r] ...
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Health checks for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a family practice
... include recommendations that can be complicated to learn and follow without a structure to do so. We believe that regular health checks can be a vehicle to implement many of the recommendations in practice. Health checks ...
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Comprehensive preventive care assessments for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... Main outcome measures Health examination was defined using the Ontario Health Insurance Plan billing data fee code A003 (with diagnostic code 917 or 319) or fee code K131, and the Pr[r] ...
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HELP for behaviours that challenge in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... health, developmental, and personal needs of the individual with IDD might not be fully understood, where necessary supports are not available, where expectations might be inappropriate, and where needed ...
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Circles of care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
... Dr McNeil is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. Dr Gemmill is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. ...
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Supporting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to participate in health care decision making
... the Developmental Disabilities Primary Care Program funded by the Ontario government are some of the groups in Canada that are working to make clinical tools and training avail- able to family physicians in ...
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Out-of-Home Placement for Children and Adolescents With Disabilities
... have intellectual and developmental disabilities are cared for in their ...severe intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex medical problems in the con- text of ...
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