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Redley, Marcus 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8866-7990
(2021)
Mealtime support for adults with intellectual disabilities: Understanding an everyday activity.
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 34 (1).
pp. 111-117.
ISSN 1360-2322
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Abstract
Background: Mealtime support has a direct bearing on the diet-related health of men and women with intellectual disabilities as well as opportunities for expressing dietary preferences. Method: Semi-structured interviews with a sample of direct support staff providing mealtime support to adults with intellectual disabilities. Results: When managing tensions between a person's dietary preferences and ensuring safe and adequate nutrition and hydration, direct support staff are sensitive to a wide range of factors. These include the following: clinical advice; service users’ rights to choose; their (in)capacity to weigh up risks; how service users communicate; the constituents of a healthy diet; and a duty to protect service users' health. Conclusions: Those responsible for setting standards and regulating the care practices need to look beyond too simple ideas of choice and safety to recognize ways in which providing support at mealtimes is a complex activity with serious consequences for people's health and well-being.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dysphagia,eating and drinking,healthcare,social care,education,developmental and educational psychology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3304 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2020 23:59 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2024 03:01 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77071 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jar.12790 |
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