Developmental Disabilities

About Developmental Disabilities

This app presents the 2018 Canadian Consensus Guidelines for Primary Care of Adults with Developmental Disabilities in an easy-to-use format, with permission from the copyright holder, the Canadian Family Physician journal. The original article is Open Access and available from the cfp.ca website. It addresses important considerations such as Approaches to Care (Communication, Capacity, etc.), Assessments (Medications, Pain and Distress, etc.), Physical Health (Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, etc.), and Mental Health (Behaviours that Challenge, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychotropic Medications, etc.).