Coastal road trip with canine assistance… 0 comments
This guest blog by Sheila Sadler (shown right) features an epic coastal road trip, designed to prove by example that people with disabilities can participate and enjoy, with careful and [...]
Barriers to Independent Living 0 comments
This guest blog is written by Simone Aspis, a disabled activist campaigning for disabled people’s rights to independent living. Simone tells us about the barriers that people with learning disabilities [...]
Living independently with muscular dystrophy 1 comment
This guest blog is written by Rose Lawy, and tells a bit about how her disability first appeared, how it has developed – and how she goes about maintaining her [...]
TALK ABOUT TOILETS! 0 comments
Robin Tuffley, marketing manager at Clos-o-Mat, Britain’s leading provider of Changing Places wheelchair-accessible toilets, explains why YOUR voice matters If you don’t ask, you don’t get… …that saying particularly applies [...]
PUTTING ON THE PRESSURE 9 comments
Pressure ulcers – what happened to zero tolerance? Independent Living’s resident nutrition expert, Mary Farmer, first aspired to a career in nursing. Although she diverted into becoming a dietitian, one [...]
Language and Disability 3 comments
From Holocaust to Austerity Britain Peter Mittler has been working in the wider disability field for some 60 years: as a clinical psychologist, parent, academic, director of a large research [...]
A Message of Hope and Encouragement 0 comments
Penguin Bloom, reviewed by Mary Farmer Our resident nutrition expert, Mary Farmer, is generally to be found over at her nutrition blogspot. But a Christmas present inspired her to write [...]
Dementia and human rights 4 comments
Peter Mittler has been working in the wider disability field for some 60 years: as a clinical psychologist, parent, academic, director of a large research centre on learning disability at [...]
Loneliness at Christmas 0 comments
We all look forward to the Christmas holidays – don’t we? It’s a time to have a break from work, overindulge and spend time with our families. This usually happy [...]