Psychologists promoting and supporting the physical health of people with learning disabilities

These guidelines were developed in recognition of the need to ensure that, as psychologists, we play an active part in bringing an end to the health inequalities faced by people with a learning disability (intellectual disability). It has long been evident that many people with a learning disability die younger than is taken for granted in the general population, with conditions that could have been prevented or treated. Despite this being widely known and vocally abhorred amongst learning disability professionals for many years, there has been a longstanding and seemingly insurmountable impasse in bringing about change.