Learning disability nursing is at risk of complete collapse due to a lack of people going into the specialty, nurses have warned. The threat facing learning disability nursing was a key topic ...

As a geriatrician or physician specially trained to treat older adults, Kenneth Lam, MD, MAS, has many years of experience working with families to understand when their older relatives should move ...

Rose covers disability and mental health, and she helps write STAT’s daily Morning Rounds newsletter. Confidential tips can be sent to Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. Over the last 30 years, one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been forced into nursing homes that lack the proper ...

The number of young adults moving into nursing homes is on the rise and advocates say the reason could be a lack of resources available for people to stay in the community. Individuals ages 31 to 64 ...

New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has highlighted the need for dedicated disability education in undergraduate nursing programs to better prepare future nurses. Almost one in five ...

ST. LOUIS — Melody Ping never thought she would be trying to move out of a nursing home. She lived in a St. Louis apartment for 19 years and worked as an accountant until two years ago, when she lost ...

The Justice Department's opinion challenges civil rights protections that have long treated the institutionalization of ...

Young people with disability living in nursing homes are one of the most marginalised and isolated groups of people in our society. More than half of them, 53%, receive a visit from a friend less than ...

A crisis in learning disability nursing is denying people their right to fair and equitable care, the RCN has warned.

Learning disability nursing is a specialist service that risks disappearing from much of the UK. That’s according to a new ...