Intellectual Disability
Over 400,000 people in Australia have intellectual disability.
Including their families, two million Australians are impacted.
Compared with the general population, people with intellectual disability experience:
- Over twice the rate of avoidable deaths.
- Twice the rate of emergency department and hospital admissions
- Hospital admissions costing twice as much.
- Higher rates of physical and mental health conditions.
- Lower rates of preventative healthcare.
Advice sheets for GPs
- A series of high quality advice sheets for health practitioners and health services have been developed to enable a tailored approach to health service provision in relation to COVID-19 prevention, screening and management for people with intellectual or developmental disorders, these have been recently released by the Department of Health.
- The 7 fact sheets can be found here which includes an advice sheet for Primary Health Staff
- 'How can GPs assist people with intellectual disability during COVID-19?' by Dr Aline Smith
A range of easy read information regarding COVID-19 for families carers and workers
Two new Specialist Intellectual Disability Health Teams in the CESPHN region
- pdf A new era for the health of people with intellectual disability (223 KB)
- pdf SLHD GP Factsheet (228 KB)
- pdf SLHD NGO Factsheet (228 KB)
- pdf SLHD NSW Health Factsheet (601 KB)
- pdf SESLHD NSW Health Specialised Intellectual Disability Health teams - GP Factsheet (46 KB)
- pdf SESLHD NSW Health Specialised Intellectual Disability Health teams - NGO Factsheet (43 KB)
- pdf SESLHD NSW Health Specialised Intellectual Disability Health teams - Consumers Factsheet (43 KB)
- pdf SESLHD NSW Health Specialised Intellectual Disability Health teams - Health Factsheet (46 KB)
Specialist Intellectual Disability Health Team Workshop Webinars
- 20200513_Supporting, testing and treating people with intellectual disability through COVID-19
- 20200519_Health of people with intellectual disability – Setting the Scene
Register now for upcoming webinars:
- 20200820_Health of people with intellectual disability – Adolescence and Early Adulthood
- 20201027_Health of people with intellectual disability – Specific conditions across the lifespan
- 20201117_Health of people with intellectual disability – Focus on complex health issues
Resources
Below is a list of resources to assist health providers to support, and improve the experience of health care for People with Intellectual Disability
- UNSW Intellectual Disability Behaviour Support Program
- Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN)
- Building capability in NSW health services for people with Intellectual Disability: The Essentials
- Say Less, Show More
- Council for Intellectual Disability Health Resources
- Admission 2 Discharge Together (A2D)
- Just checking
- Agency Clinical Innovation
- Clinical for Intellectual Disability - My Health Matters folder
- Top 5
- My Carer Gateway - Facilitated by the Benevolent Society
- CHAP
- Medicare Health Assessment
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