What is it about?
Guidance was developed to help carers and services to understand the associated risks of epilepsy for people with learning disabilities and also ensure that people with learning disabilities are included in the assessment process.
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Why is it important?
Epilepsy affects one in five people with learning disabilities, and staff and carers in community settings need to feel confident about supporting them. This guidance was developed to enable services to identify and assess risks associated with caring for people with epilepsy alongside enabling the person with learning disabilities to be included in the assessment process.
Perspectives
Following repeated requests from care homes and carers this guidance was developed to enable services to be able to identify areas of risk associated with epilepsy and can be conducted with the person with a learning disability to ensure that their needs are met.
Mrs mary T codling
BHFT
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This page is a summary of: Development of epilepsy risk assessment guidance for carers and services, Learning Disability Practice, July 2019, RCNi,
DOI: 10.7748/ldp.2019.e1956.
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