... dementia assessment services to people with Down's syndrome (DS), with one service providing systematic screening via the GP. None offered proactive screening to people with intellectual disabilities who did not have a diagnosis of DS. All offered reactive assessment to this population if they experienced...

...Claire Stuart Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the size of the population of people with Down’s syndrome in Scotland in order to provide a basis for estimating likely numbers of people with dementia in Down’s syndrome at a range of ages. Design/methodology/approach Recorded...

... be contacted at: davidthompson7@talktalk.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Adult social care Down's syndrome Individual budgets Intellectual disability Learning disabilities Valuing people Social care Just over ten years ago I wrote in this journal about older people...

...Jill Davies; Hazel Morgan This article describes a project that explored the views, experiences and aspirations of young people with Down's Syndrome and their family carers. Each young person had gone or was going through the transition to adulthood. Following a scoping study, young people who were...