Bowel Cancer resource produced for people with learning disabilities in Scotland
Bowel Cancer UK estimates that over 40,000 men and women are diagnosed with bowel cancer in the UK every year, making it the third most common cancer. It is the second biggest killer in Scotland where...
View ArticleNew film aims to enable people with learning disabilities to talk about death...
Last week we posted about a study looking at end of life are for people with learning disabilities through the experiences of the staff supporting them. This week, we would like to draw your attention...
View ArticleFactsheets on Challenging Behaviour Foundation website now summarised for...
The tag cloud on the Learning Disabilities Elf blog shows quite clearly that challenging behaviour is the topic we post about most, which reflects the ratio in published studies. Challenging behaviour...
View ArticleNew resources published to help people with learning disabilities manage...
As more and more people with learning disabilities are accessing ordinary community services and using individual budgets to purchase their own support there is a need to produce good accessible...
View ArticleNew easy read materials with advice for people with learning disabilities on...
As you know, here at Elf towers our aim is to bring you the published evidence in supporting people with learning disabilities, but occasionally we will also draw your attention to practice tools and...
View ArticleChallenging Behaviour Foundation launches new information sheets
In February this year, we posted about new summary information sheets produced by the challenging behaviour foundation. This month sees the launch of a new series of three information sheets which look...
View ArticlePoster designed for people with a learning disability on how to contact police
Disability Hate Crime refers to crimes targeted at anybody as a result of his or her disability or impairment, as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and can take many forms, including ate crime can take...
View ArticleNew website aimed at helping people with learning disabilities stay safe online
Information technology is a now a major part of the modern world and access to the internet is becoming more and more important to being a part of modern society. Access to the internet brings many...
View Article'The terrible maze': Dementia carers' experiences of health and social care
Social care super-blogger Ermintrude considers a study about dementia carers' experience of the health and social care system and reflects on what it means for current dementia policy. The post 'The...
View ArticleSocial media and care of orthodontic appliances
This randomised trial examined the use of social media (YouTube ) for the provision of patient information to those undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment. A larger improvement in knowledge was seen in...
View Article“Investment in patient improves outcomes and reduces costs” according to...
Introduction This report, published by the Patient Information Forum (PIF) and its accompanying briefings, is aimed at policy makers, commissioners, and information specialists. It is informed by 300...
View ArticleWhiplash and neck pain: what’s most cost-effective?
GPs Tom Rowley and Michael Horsfield write their debut MSK Elf blog on a recent systematic review, which investigates the most cost-effective interventions for the management of whiplash-associated and...
View ArticleWhite spot lesion prevention during orthodontic treatment
This review of the efficacy of preventive interventions against the development of white spot lesions (WSLs) during fixed appliance orthodontic treatment included 23 RCTs tha majority of which were at...
View ArticleMultimedia for recruitment in adolescent orthodontic research
Aoife McDougall and Carly Ross look at this trail comparing multimedia websites & printed information for their quality,ease of understanding, and impact on decision making in adolescents. The post...
View ArticleThere is a clear association between socioeconomic deprivation and self-harm
A group of UCL masters student review a multi-centre study on socio-economic disparities in patients who present to hospital for self-harm in England, which found large variations in patients...
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