Primary care for adolescents with developmental disabilities

Clarissa Calliope Kripke

doi:10.1016/j.pop.2014.05.005

Primary care for adolescents with developmental disabilities

Prim Care. 2014 Sep;41(3):507-18. doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2014.05.005.

Author

Clarissa Calliope Kripke¹

Affiliation

¹ Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU3E, Box 0900, San Francisco, CA 94143-0900, USA. Electronic address: kripkec@fcm.ucsf.edu.

PMID: 25124203
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2014.05.005

Abstract

Disability is a natural part of the human experience. To maximize potential, adolescents with disabilities require multidisciplinary transition planning and life-skill training. Health care professionals can reduce barriers to accessing health care. They can encourage self-determination and connect patients to self-advocacy organizations. They can facilitate smooth transitions to adult health care services. Careful descriptions of a patient's baseline traits and function are critical, not only to assist in person centered planning processes, but to ensure that new caregivers and clinicians have the information they need to recognize changes in function or behavior that can signal illness.

Keywords: Adolescent health; Developmental disability; Intellectual disability; Interdisciplinary care; Primary care; Transition; Youth with special health care needs.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Bullying
Child Abuse / prevention & control
Communication
Developmental Disabilities / therapy*
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Intellectual Disability / therapy
Patient Care Planning
Patient Care Team
Physician-Patient Relations
Primary Health Care* / methods