Palliative care for people with learning disabilities - Sue Read

This book is aimed at practitioners, service managers and policy makers. It helps to transfer knowledge between the learning disability and palliative care 'communities' and to play a part in helping people with learning disabilities to access high quality services at the end of their lives. This arises out of a commitment to value people with learning disabilities equitably and to ensure that their rights are honoured in the same way as those of other citizens. While people lived in institutions, their deaths as well as their lives passed unnoticed. Now that they live in and are part of, local communities, it is important that they are cared for with dignity and skill and that they are missed and mourned like other people.


Sue Read has been a Lecturer in Nursing (Learning Disability) for fifteen years.