Numerous guides are available to assist with providing care to patients with intellectual disability.
Health Care in People with Intellectual Disability Guidelines (ACI)
These Guidelines are designed to assist general practitioners to provide comprehensive health care to people with intellectual disability. The Guidelines are based on the best evidence available at the time of development. They provide information about commonly occurring health conditions that need to be screened for in people with intellectual disability.
STOMP – Managing the reduction of psychotropic medications
The use of psychotropic medications as chemical restraint to control the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities continues to be a significant issue, persisting from the time of institutionalisation. Despite the flimsy evidence for the use of medication as chemical restraint, governments continue to permit its use under the rhetoric of approved restrictive practices. It can only be through the coordinated action of people with intellectual disabilities, their families, clinical practitioners and service providers, and the creation of a rigorous research evidence that we will see any meaningful change in the use of psychotropic medication for people with intellectual disabilities. StompOz provides the framework for this, but to achieve these dramatic improvements in the access to behaviour supports and the quality of practice are required.