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LINKS BETWEEN COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND EXPLOITATION IN ENGLAND
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This two-year study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, aims to investigate the connections between cognitive impairments, such as mental ill-health, learning disability or memory-loss, and vulnerabilities to exploitation.
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Does your work entail a connection with people who identify as having cognitive impairment or difference? Researchers from the University of Nottingham and University of Birmingham are conducting a two-year study to unravel the links between cognitive impairment and risk of exploitation in England. This research has received ethical approval from the University of Nottingham…
Can we quantify the overlap between cognitive impairment and exploitation from existing data?
Our pilot research and recent scoping review suggests that people with cognitive impairment, such as acute mental distress, cognitive decline, intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD, may be at high risk of exploitation. They may also struggle to recognize when they are being exploited and face difficulties in effectively communicating or reporting exploitation. Understanding how exploitation…
What do we know about the overlap between cognitive impairment and exploitation?
One important first step in our research project has been to understand existing academic knowledge about how different types of cognitive impairment and exploitation intersect. We are currently finalising the results of our ‘scoping review’ which attempts to map literature across many different disciplines and fields. It has been an interesting process with some fascinating…
For more information about this project contact: alison.gardner@nottingham.ac.uk
Links between cognitive impairment and exploitation in England 