But the most common age of death for people without a learning disability is about 87 years old. This is 20 years longer.

Ciara Lawrence struggled at school before being diagnosed with a learning disability. (Supplied) Ciara Lawrence, 44, from Surrey has a learning disability that meant years of being bullied and ...

Assisted Dying and people with learning disabilities. Professor Irene Tuffrey Wijne, a specialist on palliative care for those with learning disabilities who has studied how the Euthanasia legislation ...

To mark the launch of his thought-provoking book 'Beautiful Lives: how did we get learning disabilities so wrong', author and ...

A nursing student and community nurse are marking Learning Disability Nursing Day today by celebrating the field of nursing that first brought them together as friends. Emma Hughes, a first-year ...

THE National Learning Network (NLN) officially opened its new centre for people with disabilities, at Linenhall Street, ...

Patients with learning disabilities are likely to progress faster to severe type 2 diabetes and are also at greater risk of dying from it.

The proportion of avoidable deaths among adults with a learning disability has fallen but is still almost double that of the general population, according to a new report. Some 733 (38.8%) of the ...

Not enough is being done to prevent the early deaths of people with learning disabilities, campaigners have said. Generally, people with learning disabilities die 20 years younger than those without ...

Second-year Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams has been accused of hiding a learning disability that hindered his ...