Couples with intellectual disability where one partner has dementia – a scoping review exploring relationships in the context of dementia and intellectual disability [PDF]
Relationships and marriages between couples with intellectual disability are to be celebrated, as is the longer life expectancy now enjoyed by many with intellectual disability.
Watchman, Karen +3 more
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The Intersectionality of intellectual disability & ageing [PDF]
First paragraph: Intellectual disability is characterised by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviour, which cover many everyday social and practical skills reducing ability to learn new things (Department of ...
Watchman, Karen
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Objectives To comprehensively analyse the life expectancy at birth of people with intellectual disability, including people with Down syndrome, to inform health equity and service planning.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Residents of New South ...
Preeyaporn Srasuebkul +2 more
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Does the well-being of individuals with Down syndrome and dementia improve when using life story books and rummage boxes? A randomised single case series experiment [PDF]
Background: This study investigated whether a personalised life story book and rummage box enhanced well-being and led to changes in behaviour for people with Down syndrome (DS) who have dementia. Materials & Methods: A randomised single-case series
Langdon, Peter E. +7 more
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A novel UBE2A splice site variant causing intellectual disability type Nascimento
X‐linked intellectual disability type Nascimento (XLID) is a rare disease caused by variants in the ubiquitin‐conjugating enzyme E2A gene (UBE2A). Patients with XLID have similar phenotypes, including speech impairments, severe intellectual disability ...
Shuyuan Yan +11 more
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Supporting Advanced Dementia in people with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities: Consensus Statement of the International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia [PDF]
The International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia (Glasgow, Scotland; October 2016) noted that advanced dementia can be categorised as that stage of dementia progression characterised by significant losses in cognitive and physical ...
Fortea, J. +20 more
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Intellectual Disability and the use of Information and Communication Technology: Systematic review
This article offers an existing overview of intellectual disability and its relationship with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and with the aim of giving a global perspective through the systematic review of the literature which studies ...
Brizeida Hernández Sánchez +3 more
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Background. METTL5 gene is one of the members of methyltransferase superfamily and biallelic variants cause intellectual disability syndrome (ID) with microcephaly.
Deniz Torun +4 more
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Genetic heterogeneity in Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) and CdLS-like phenotypes with observed and predicted levels of mosaicism [PDF]
Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a multisystem disorder with distinctive facial appearance, intellectual disability and growth failure as prominent features.
Aldridge, Roland +263 more
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Emerging Role of the KCNT1 Slack Channel in Intellectual Disability
The sodium-activated potassium KNa channels Slack and Slick are encoded by KCNT1 and KCNT2, respectively. These channels are found in neurons throughout the brain, and are responsible for a delayed outward current termed IKNa.
Grace E. Kim, Leonard K. Kaczmarek
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