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End of life care planning for people with learning disabilities

End of life care planning can be rushed or missed for people with learning disabilities and nurses have a key role in ensuring service users' wishes are met
A man with learning disabilities listens carefully to a nurse who has her back to the camera

End of life care planning can be rushed or missed for people with learning disabilities and nurses have a key role in ensuring service users' wishes are met

More than half of all people with learning disabilities will die before they reach 65, prompting researchers to call for radical changes in the way they receive end of life care, an area that research indicates is poorly understood.

People with a learning disability are less likely to experience an

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