End of Life and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability

Download or read book End of Life and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability written by Roger J. Stancliffe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on end of life examines how to include people with intellectual and developmental disability in the inevitability of dying and death. Comprising 17 chapters, it addresses challenging and under-researched topics including suicide, do-not-resuscitate, advance care planning, death doulas and accessible funerals. Topics reflect everyday community, palliative care, hospice and disability services. The book proposes that the rights of people with disabilities should be supported up to and after their death. Going beyond problem identification, the chapters offer positive, evidence-supported responses that translate research to practice, together with practice examples and resources grounded in lived experience. The book is applicable to readers from the disability field, and mainstream health professionals who assist people with disability in emergency care, palliative care or end-of-life planning