About these resources
We have made resources (also called information sheets) for people with intellectual disability and their supporters about palliative care.
Supporters are people that help with care or daily life. This might be friends, family or unpaid and paid carers, for example disability workers.
Palliative care is help for people who have a serious health condition that they will die from.
Palliative care helps people to live well.
Palliative care helps people manage their symptoms like pain or feeling sick.
We also made a resource for health workers.
All resources for people with intellectual disability can be downloaded in Plain English and Easy Read.
Why the resources were made
The resources aim to make palliative care better for people with intellectual disability.
Making palliative care better is important because people with intellectual disability often find it hard to get good palliative care.
We made and tested these resources with:
- People with intellectual disability
- Supporters of people with intellectual disability
- Health workers