Background: Active recreation denotes engagement with meaningful and rewarding activities that can improve physical and mental well-being for everyone; however, there are specific challenges to participation in active recreation for people with learning disabilities. Aim: To understand what hinders and what enables participation in active…

It has been well documented that people with learning disabilities receive poor care in acute settings. Over the last few years, a number of learning disability liaison nurse services have developed in the United Kingdom as a response to this, but there has been a failure to systematically gather evidence as to their effectiveness. This article…

Choosing can be easy, such as when deciding what biscuit to eat. Sometimes it is hard to choose, such as deciding on who to have as a boyfriend or girlfriend. Sometimes even choosing a biscuit can be hard if your doctor says it is not healthy for you. There are lots of reasons why we choose to do things. Everyone needs to think about these reasons…