People with a learning disability are living longer, yet they are still dying 20 years younger than the rest of the population. It is well known that people with a learning disability are more likely to live with other health conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, dementia and dysphasia.
Ensuring we keep our Promise of supporting each individual to feel good about themselves and to stay safe and healthy is extremely important to us at MacIntyre.
We have taken considerable steps to ensuring good health and wellbeing for the people we support. This has involved:
MacIntyre is also actively involved in reviewing and contributing to key industry resources, publications and best practice guidelines. Examples include:
Health recording is a big focus of our health agenda at MacIntyre. In 2016, we undertook a review of what we currently record about a person we support and how much of this relates to their health. We have since produced documents and removed duplication to enable our staff and the person to better record a person’s health and changing needs.
The Health Calendar, also known as the Anticipatory Care Calendar produced by the Innovation Agency, a stream of the NHS in the North West, is a key tool which all of our staff use to capture a person’s baseline in regards to their health and wellbeing and is a great tool in daily recording of health changes. We know this will support a person with receiving a timely diagnosis of any condition, which is one of our key objectives.
We understand that each child, young person or adult with autism that we support is unique.
We have expertise in supporting people with dementia or at risk of developing dementia.
We believe that everyone, irrespective of the complexity of his or her needs, wants to and does communicate.
It is estimated that 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability.
MacIntyre is at the forefront of supporting people to move from long stay hospitals, inpatient facilities and assessment and treatment units back into…