Hannah Morgan discusses research looking at how the various people using community rehabilitation services view disability and service use and reflects on how disability studies needs to contribute to health and social care education.
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Clarissa Giebel finds a lot to discuss in a recent qualitative systematic review about living positively with dementia.
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Support staff can play a key role for some people with learning disabilities in connecting people with their communities – so how much do staff attitudes impact on this and are there differences in attitudes between countries?
Here Fawn Harrad looks at a study which compared attitudes of staff in Japan and the U.S.
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Tanya Moore discusses a small study on inter-professional working between social care and general practice and finds evidence of misunderstanding.
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How accessible are websites designed for adults with learning disabilities?
Here we take a look at a study which reviewed 19 such sites to address this question.
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Jill Manthorpe discusses a case study on how the emotional and moral labour of care workers operates in residential settings.
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Ian Cummins examines research on multiple exclusion homelessness and finds that social work may have an important role for prevention.
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Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society is a project funded by the Economic and Social research council (June, 2013 – September, 2015).
The project is a collaboration between universities and organisations of and for people with learning disabilities, further details can be found at: www.bigsocietydis.wordpress.com
Here, just as the project shares its findings at a national conference, Katherine Runswick Cole sets the scene and Silvana Mengoni posts about one of the published papers from the project.
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Robin Miller assesses a paper on what has been happening to the provision of social care services to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) older people and raises concerns about equality.
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This report shares findings of a mixed methods case study, to explore best practice in reducing unplanned admissions in the elderly population.
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