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  • Improving Health for Adults with Learning Disabilities

    Created: 30/11/2016
    News/Events Category: Training and Learning


    When: 9.30am - 4.30pm, Tuesday 14 February 2017
    Where: Cameron Hospital, Cameron Bridge, Windygates, KY8 5RR
    This event is being organised by Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance
    This particular event is free to attend, so no payment is required.


    It is too late to book a place for this particular session, sorry about that.

    Aims

    To increase participants’ knowledge and understanding of the health needs of adults with learning disabilities and to explore the key role that staff have in supporting adults with learning disabilities to make healthy lifestyle choices.

    Outcomes

    Participants will have, on successful completion of this course:

    • An increased awareness of health needs for adults with learning disabilities;
    • Identified factors which influence health;
    • Explored the role that staff have in promoting healthy lifestyle choices for adults with learning disabilities; and
    • Identified support services for staff working in this area.

    Who should attend?

    Those from the public or voluntary sector and carers who are supporting adults with learning disabilities and who can have a direct influence on the health and wellbeing of adults with a learning disability.

    Facilitators

    Seona MacDonald, Community Learning Disability Liaison Nurse, Fife Health and Social Care Partnership; and

    Jennifer Smith, Community Learning Disability Liaison Nurse, Fife Health and Social Care Partnership

    How to book

    Click here for the online booking form. 




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