When it comes to general health matters, prevention—as your doctor may well tell you—is more effective than cure. Following the same line of reasoning, it’s better—and we don’t just mean cheaper—to make sure that any potential new home matches your access needs before it’s built, rather than having to spend additional time and money “renovating” […]
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Home Adaptations
Paul Young (and before him Marvin Gaye) once sung about how home was wherever he lay his hat. However, choice and location of headwear notwithstanding, for most of us “home” is actually somewhere much more important. The American psychologist Susan Clayton has gone as far as saying that, for many of us, our homes are […]
Working in Further and Higher Education
“I was provided with a canine assistant three years ago. My line manager was happy to accommodate the dog working around the department. My employer (even up to Vice Chancellor level) was positive about the message this gives, and accommodated dog walking and toileting in the university’s gardens, where dogs are not normally allowed.” So […]
Reasons to be Cheerful
1979: it’s a time of change, and disabled people in Britain are feeling increasingly excluded and threatened by the talk of cuts to benefits and public services that’s coming from the new Conservative Government. 2010: it’s a time of change, and disabled people in Britain are feeling increasingly excluded and threatened by the talk of […]
