Widening Access to Palliative and End of Life Care for People with Intellectual Disabilities

This course aims to promote optimal palliative and end of life care to people with an intellectual disability or learning disability in any care setting. It is targeted specifically at the palliative and end-of-life care educational and training needs of health and social care professionals. These training needs have been identified from the findings of a doctoral research study within which information was collected from people with intellectual disabilities, active and bereaved family carers and health and social care professionals. So the content of this resource is based on what aspects of care are thought to give the greatest concern or to be of most importance to service users and professionals. This resource brings together good practice standards and published international research findings.