Research and statistics on health
People with a
learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
tend to have poorer physical and mental health than the general population.
Health and people with a learning disability
Health inequalities that people with a learning disability can experience are partly caused by poor quality healthcare.
As well as this, there are a number of health conditions that people with a learning disability are more likely to experience, including epilepsy and dementia.
We have put research and statistics on health and learning disability into 2 main topics:
- Health inequalities
- Mental health
Read more about each of these topics below.
Treat Me Well
Treat Me Well is our
campaign
A campaign is when people work together to try to change something.
to transform how the NHS treats people with a learning disability in hospital.
We know the treatment people with a learning disability get in hospital is still not good enough in many parts of the country. This has to change.