Title: How Can We Provide Better Healthcare for People With An Intellectual Disability?
Abstract: People with an intellectual disability have lower intelligence than others and find it hard to do things necessary for day-to-day living, like communicating or taking care of themselves. There are different levels of intellectual disability, from mild to severe and profound. People with an intellectual disability often have many health problems, but it is often difficult for them to get good healthcare. They find it difficult to understand the complex language that many doctors and other health professionals use. Most health professionals have never learned how to treat people with an intellectual disability and they are not confident when they treat a person with an intellectual disability. Disability services and health services should work together as a team. Better healthcare for people with an intellectual disability is important, so that fewer people die because they did not get the healthcare they needed.