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Community care for people with learning disabilities: deficits and future plans

Division of Psychiatry, UMDS-Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT

^* Correspondence

The challenge facing services for people with learning disabilities is to create the environment in which clients have the best quality of life without preconception. The heterogenous nature of people with learning disabilities requires diversity of care provisions sensitive to their individual needs. The different demonstration and presentation of their mental health needs has influenced the development of services and different models of specialist services have emerged with local variations. There is still, however, a great deal of confusion on both ideological and service delivery level. Although services for people with learning disabilities have succeeded in resetting people in the community and supporting them in developing adaptive skills, unfortunately these successes are not matched by equally effective and efficient services to those with mental health needs.