People with learning disabilities should have access to the same high quality care as others in the UK. A unique guide sets out how to achieve thisA global study into close-of-life care recently ranked the UK as the best state in the world to die. However,groundbreaking unique guidance suggests that professionals fail to offer the same good support to terminally ill people who have autism or a learning disability. While the Economist Intelligence Unit’s worldwide rating of close-of-life care placed the UK top for the terminally ill, partly thanks to its hospice movement, or it concluded that the country is “still not providing adequate services for every citizen”. Related: UK is the best state in the world to die,according to close-of-life care index Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com