Sophia Kessissoglou

TL;DR: While levels of smoking and alcohol abuse were low, the prevalence of poor diet, obesity in women and physical inactivity was high and it is argued that increasing levels of moderate or vigorous physical activity among people with intellectual disabilities would be the single most effective way of improving the health of people with Intellectual disabilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, information was collected on the social networks of 500 adults with mental retardation receiving different types of residential supports, and the reported median size of participants' social networks (excluding staff) was 2 people.

TL;DR: The present study reports the prevalence of psychoactive medication receipt for 500 people with intellectual disability living in different forms of residential provision in the UK and analyses of predictors of psychotropic medication receipt suggest that the receipt of both antipsychotics and hypnotics/anxiolytics is predicted by variables related to challenging behaviour.

TL;DR: Information was collected on 63 adults in supported living residences, 55 adults in small group homes, and 152 adults in large group homes to indicate that there were no statistically significant differences in service costs once these had been adjusted to take account of participant characteristics.

TL;DR: There appeared to be distinct patterns ofquality of life benefits associated with dispersed housing schemes and village communities, with both approaches offering a greater quality of life than did residential campuses.