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Eijsink, A. M.; Schipper, G.; Vermaire, J. H. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: People with intellectual disabilities have less favourable outcomes in--among others--oral health variables, compared to their peers without intellectual disabilities. Before being able to develop target interventions for caregivers, all their prevailing viewpoints regarding oral hygiene need to be identified. Methods: This…
Descriptors: Moderate Intellectual Disability, Health Services, Dental Health, Caregivers
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Krahn, Gloria L.; Hammond, Laura; Turner, Anne – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2006
People with ID represent approximately 2% of the population and, as a group, experience poorer health than the general population. This article presents recent conceptualizations that begin to disentangle health from disability, summarizes the literature from 1999 to 2005 in terms of the cascade of disparities, reviews intervention issues and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Promotion, Mental Retardation, Caregivers