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- Title
Common interest allowed me to engage.
- Authors
Branch, Daniel
- Abstract
The author relates how he adopted a patient-centered approach in helping an obese patient with learning disability and autism to make significant nutrition and lifestyle changes. Topics discussed include the risk of obesity in individuals with learning disabilities, the identification of common interests such as playing computer games which allowed better communication with the patient, and the use of a computer game character in highlighting weight loss goals.
- Subjects
AUTISM; DIET; EXERCISE; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; OBESITY; VIDEO games
- Publication
Nursing Standard, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 8, p71
- ISSN
0029-6570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7748/ns.34.8.71.s21