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Cognitive impairment

Alternative labels
Cognitive disability
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Cognitive impairment
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Report on public hearing 10: Education and training of health professionals in relation to people with cognitive disability


This report makes 9 findings and 12 recommendations in relation to the education and training of health professionals across Australia including nurses, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists and speech pathologists.
Report

Improving the regulation of restrictive practices in Queensland: a way forward


This paper argues that regulations that authorise and monitor the use of restrictive practices should encourage minimal usage of restrictive practices, provide conditions for their use, include safeguards and protections for those people on whom they are used, and contain clear guidance for those who use them.
Journal article

Parental strategies that support adults with intellectual disabilities to explore decision preferences, constraints and consequences

This study is part of a program of research about the experiences of receiving decision support by adults with cognitive disabilities and of supporters in giving support.
Report

‘For my safety’: experiences of technology-facilitated abuse among women with intellectual disability or cognitive disability


This research explores experiences of technology-facilitated abuse among women living with intellectual or cognitive disability. The findings are based on interviews with women with intellectual or cognitive disability and frontline workers who provide support services.
Report

Responding to complaints from people with impaired capacity


This audit finds that neither the Office of the Public Guardian nor the Public Trustee of Queensland had properly designed their complaints management systems for people with impaired capacity.