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This book is a powerful and moving account of the experiences of 13 people with learning disabilities who were living with cancer. The author gained a unique understanding of what it is like for individuals with learning disabilities to live with deteriorating health and how this may impact upon their families, friends and carers.

Cancer --- Learning disabled --- Patients

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Understanding Learning Disability and Dementia covers all the essential issues in supporting a person with a learning disability when they develop dementia. The increased longevity of the population at large also means that the number of people with a learning disability is living longer, and the numbers of these people developing dementia will continue to increase. Service providers, planners, doctors, social workers, carers and direct support staff need to be equipped with relevant knowledge prior to the onset of the condition, so they can devise appropriate therapeutic interventions and cop

Dementia --- Learning disabled --- Patients --- Care.

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Explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present. The essays address the emergence of "veteran" as a political category with unique privileges and entitlements and of disabled veterans as a special project--and indeed one of the original projects--of the modern welfare state.

Veterans Health --- Disabled Persons --- Veterans --- Armed Conflicts --- Public Policy --- history --- History. --- Disabled veterans. --- Disabled sailors --- Disabled soldiers --- Service-disabled veterans --- Veterans, Disabled --- People with disabilities --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Invalides de guerre.

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In this report, the authors use the Wounded Warrior Project's 2013 survey of its members (alumni) to understand the physical, mental, and economic challenges that Wounded Warriors face. The researchers find that at least half of alumni reported dealing with mental health conditions such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, and many of these alumni reported difficulties or delays in seeking mental health care, or not doing so at all.

Disabled veterans -- Employment -- United States. --- Disabled veterans -- Health and hygiene -- United States. --- Disabled veterans -- Mental health -- United States. --- Disabled veterans -- United States -- Economic conditions. --- Government - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Executive Branch --- Disabled veterans --- Employment --- Health and hygiene --- Mental health --- Disabled sailors --- Disabled soldiers --- Service-disabled veterans --- Veterans, Disabled --- People with disabilities --- Veterans --- Rehabilitation --- Vocational rehabilitation --- E-books

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