Discapacidad
Hoy se conocen varios miles de estas alteraciones patológicas que padecen un número reducido de personas para las que paliarlas o prevenirlas es esencial, porque afectan el normal discurrir de su vida. Y es que en medicina los porcentajes tienen un valor exclusivamente epidemiológico pero carecen de valor comparativo, porque la vida se vive una […]
…Purpose– People with a learning disability remain at increased risk of abuse and neglect due to a number of factors associated with learning disability per se and the culture in which they live. Understanding the prevalence of abuse within this population allows for appropriate planning and service development. Understanding more about the type and frequency […]
…Purpose– A schema for more clearly understanding the emotional and psychological abuse and neglect of people with intellectual disability was developed to support a narrative study with people with intellectual disability, families and other supporters about the lived experience of this maltreatment in disability accommodation services in Australia. This paper aims to describe the underpinning […]
…Investigadores del Instituto del Blood Cancer Institute de Colorado y el Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center de Denver, en Estados Unidos, han logrado que un pequeño grupo de pacientes con esclerosis múltiple que sometidos a un trasplante autólogo de sus propias células madre hematopoyéticas mantenga la enfermedad en remisión después de tres años, logrando incluso mejoras […]
…Se calcula que actualmente existen entre cinco mil y ocho mil enfermedades raras diferentes, que afectan a casi tres millones de españoles, de las cuales, aproximadamente el 80 por ciento son de origen genético. La realidad de estas patologías y de sus pacientes fue analizada por parte de expertos, científicos, representantes políticos y afectados en […]
…Objectives To examine the longitudinal association between decline in physical function and risk of elder abuse. Design Prospective population-based study. Setting Geographically defined community in Chicago. Participants One hundred forty-three Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP) participants who had elder abuse reported to a social services agency from 1993 to 2010 were identified. Participants The […]
…The government are consulting on the introduction of legislation to give professionals powers to enter the homes of ‘vulnerable adults’ where abuse is suspected and remove the ‘victim’ without their consent. This article considers the consequences of such legislation for the ‘intimate citizenship’ of people with learning difficulties who have capacity to consent to sexual […]
…This paper critically reflects on the Scottish Adult Support and Protection (ASP) study, a research project conducted at a time when oadult protection’ was understood in Scottish policies to be the professional response to oabuse’. During the course of analysing the ASP study data, it became apparent that practitioners themselves did not necessarily construct oabuse’ […]
…While studies suggest that the rate of abuse of women with disabilities is similar or higher compared to the general population, there continues to be a lack of attention to this issue. Women with disabilities are at particularly high risk of abuse, both through typical forms of violence (physical, sexual, and emotional) and those that […]
…Objective: To examine the effect of an advocacy intervention on the use of safety-promoting behaviors in community-dwelling abused Chinese women as compared to a control condition of usual care. Design: This efficacy trial used a randomized controlled, parallel group design. Participants and methods: A total of 200 Chinese women in a community setting who screened […]
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