International Congress of Best Practice in Intellectual Disability Medicine

"The health and strength of a society can be measured by how well it cares for its most vulnerable members."

Children and adults with intellectual disabilities, especially those with severe disabilities and complex needs, are part of this vulnerable group. Despite having more physical, neuropsychiatric and mental health needs, people with intellectual disabilities are often disadvantaged in gaining access to health care and to having both their general and specialist health problems correctly diagnosed and properly treated. Too often are their 'challenging behaviours' seen as part of the disability rather than as an expression of their unrecognised physical or emotional pain.

This congress will bring together current innovative ideas, policies, projects and practices that already exist in different countries for the improvement of healthcare to people with intellectual disability (id).'bridge 2010' will be of particular interest to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, to residential and day care service providers, to those involved in regulation and inspection of care and to parent organisations as well as members of governmental departments responsible for healthcare and/or for people with disabilities. We are inviting you to join us to share your knowledge of good practice but also to network and learn from other countries' experiences.

Link to the website Bridge 2010

We look forward to welcoming you in May next year.