Health Resources Partnership (HRP) seeks to expand the community health care capacity
for individuals with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in Washington D.C. in many ways
by these methods:

• Providing health and mental health services that are accessible
• Implementing strategies to promote quality health outcomes

Virtual Library

New and Exciting

• 15 Important things to know about Hospice Care

• DDS Policy and Procedures on Emergency and Urgent Care Guardianship. For further information, please contact Neha Patel at 202-730-1787 or neha.patel@dc.gov
  (from DCHAdvocate newsletter, 11/16/07)
  

• Check out the August 2007 Supports Intensity Scale (SIS) newsletter, which showcases Ontario's plan to overhaul its developmental disability services using SIS.
  

• The M.E.E. (Move * Experience * Engage) Calendar!

  365 fresh ideas for things to do! by Janet Thomas, Jamie Hall, Toby Long, and Rachel Brady

• SENSAtional Ideas for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
  
  Suggested activities for all the senses, arranged in a checklist format to aid in documentation!
  developed by occupational and physical therapists, authors: Janet Thomas, Jamie Hall and Toby Long

• New! Height May Be an Effective, Simple Way to predict Hip fracture in Elderly
  Holman, JR. Medscape Medical News 2006.
  Consider height as a risk for hip fracture, not only in the elderly, but also those with poor mobility, contractures, and/or spasticity, or who are wheelchair- bound.