THE CARE AND WELLBEING OF MENTAL HANDICAP PATIENTS

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• THE CARE AND WELL-BEING OF MENTAL HANDICAP
  PATIENTS
• Daina Bartkeviciute
• Jolien Van de Perre
• Katrien Vlaeminck
• Melinda Morgós
• ICHCI course 2007

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DEFINITION OF MENTAL HANDICAP

• The definition involves three criteria
• Significantly subaverage general intellectual
  functioning
• Existing together with deficits in adaptive
  behavior
• Originating during the developmental period

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CLASSIFICATION

• Mild mental retardation
• Moderate mental retardation
• Severe mental retardation
• Profound mental retardation

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CAUSES

• PRENATAL
• Chromosomal anomality ? Down syndrome
• Infections during pregnancy ? rubella
• Maternal self-abuse ? smoking, alcoholism
• PERINATAL
• Pre-, postmature birth
• Difficult labour and delivery
• POSTNATAL
• Disorders of metabolism ? galactosemia
• Disease ? meningitis
• COMBINED OCCURRENCE
• Tumors
• Social and cultural deprivation

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HEALTH

• The condition of being sound in body, mind or
  spirit especially freedom of physical disease or
  pain
• Marriem-Webster Online Dictionary
• More than absence of illness
• WHO Definition

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OPTIMAL HEALTH

• Balance of Five Health Areas

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WELL-BEING

• The state of being happy, healthy or prosperous
• Quality of life

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WELL-BEING FOR MENTAL HANDICAP PATIENTS

• Visit to the Borgwal Mental Handicap Institution
  in Vurste

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BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENT