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By Patricia Noonan-Walsh, Patricia Walsh, Tamar Heller
The 1st interdisciplinary booklet taking a contextual method of the constructing wellbeing and fitness wishes of girls with highbrow disabilities. It considers the social, financial and political contexts of wellbeing and fitness merchandising. Its concise yet accomplished facts base makes it a special, trustworthy resource for a large readership.
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For example, they are more likely than men with intellectual disabilities and than adults in the general population, to be obese and to exhibit lower levels of physical exercise. Primary health prevention programs aimed at promoting healthy eating and exercise behaviors have been shown to be cost-effective in terms of promoting quality of life measured by additional Quality of Life Years or QALYs (Kaplan, 2000). Strategies that support individuals to identify personal health promotion goals and to achieve these goals by changing their behavior, focus on autonomy and self-determination (Turner & Hatton, 1998).
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, New York and Geneva. N. (2000) Rights of passage: Life course transitions for women with intellectual disabilities. In: Transition and Change in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities (ed. D. May), pp. 135±156. Jessica Kingsley, London. , Conliffe, C. & Birkbeck, G. (1993) Permanency planning and maternal well-being: a study of caregivers of people with intellectual disability in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Few studies have presented results separately for men and women. , 1997; Lai & Williams, 1989) age at onset. , 1999). Age at menopause was available for approximately half of this group, of whom 12 were postmenopausal and diagnosed with dementia. Although the sample size is small, results are consistent with the hypothesis that higher endogenous estrogen levels can lower risk of dementia. If the association between age at menopause and onset of dementia can be confirmed and supporting hormonal data provided, estrogen replacement therapy could prove to be an important intervention to delay the onset of dementia.