Developmental Disability and Ageing

145 Pages·2009·0.863 MB·English

by  Gregory O'Brien, Lewis Rosenbloom

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A brief general overview of the area is followed by a detailed
consideration of dementia in the context of developmental dis-
ability, including cause, diagnosis, assessment and natural history,
with case examples. The next chapters cover two of the most
high-profile of all the major groups of developmental disabilities,
with their own unique patterns of ageing: Down syndrome and
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Developmental
Disability and Ageing
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Developmental
Disability and
Ageing
Edited by
Gregory O’Brien
and Lewis Rosenbloom
2009
Mac Keith Press
Distributed by Wiley-Blackwell
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©2009 Mac Keith Press
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Editor: Hilary M. Hart
Managing Director, Mac Keith Press: Caroline Black
Project Manager: Sarah Pearsall
The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not
necessarily represent those of the publisher
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permission of the publisher
First published in this edition 2009
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data
Acatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978–1–898683–61–2
Typeset by Keystroke, 28 High Street, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton
Printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd, Water Street, Lavenham, Suffolk
Mac Keith Press is supported by Scope
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
How to Use this Handbook xi
1 Overview: Development Disability and Ageing 1
Gregory O’Brien and Lewis Rosenbloom
2 Dementia in Developmental Disability 10
Mohammed Nagdee and Gregory O’Brien
3 Ageing in Down Syndrome 31
Tom Berney
4 Cerebral Palsy and Ageing 39
Gregory O’Brien, Alf Bass and Lewis Rosenbloom
5 Ageing in Other Syndromes 53
Marc Woodbury-Smith
6 Drug Treatment for Common Problems among Elderly People with
Developmental Disabilities (including Dementia) 72
Christopher Ince
7 Living with Ageing in Developmental Disability 90
Claire Middleton and Gregory O’Brien
References 115
Index 124
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Contributors
Alf Bass, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation
Trust, Liverpool, UK
Tom Berney, Honorary Consultant, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, UK
Christopher Ince, Consultant in Forensic and Forensic Learning Disability Psychiatry,
Northgate Hospital, Morpeth, Northumberland, UK
Claire Middleton, Assistant Psychologist, North Wales NHS Trust, UK
Mohammed Nagdee, Principal Consultant Psychiatrist, Fort England Hospital,
Grahamstown, South Africa
Gregory O’Brien, Professor in Developmental Psychiatry, Northgate Hospital, Morpeth,
Northumberland, UK
Lewis Rosenbloom, Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Alder Hey Children’s
NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
Marc Woodbury-Smith, Assistant Professor, Offord Centre for Child Studies, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada
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