Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: a podcast series from the Living With Disability Research Centre
Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality and Service Delivery is a new podcast series based upon the book of the same name, which is available as a free e-book from Springer.
Each episode coincides with one of the book’s chapters, featuring discussions the chapter’s author and a series of take-home messages[JP1] to apply to disability service delivery.
This series has been facilitated by Emeritus Professor Christine Bigby AO, Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, and Dr. Alan Hough, director of Purpose at Work, who co-edited the Disability Practice book.
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Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: a podcast series from the Living With Disability Research Centre
Healthy Lifestyles and Primary Healthcare
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This discussion is based upon the chapter of the same title by Jane Tracy and Teresa Iacono in the book Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery (Bigby & Hough, 2023).
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The episode provides an overview of the implications of poor health and why poor health is often experienced by people with intellectual disabilities.
Optimal health is central to being able to enjoy the best possible quality of life. The chapter explores the roles that disability support workers and others play in ensuring good health of people with intellectual disabilities, and the skills they need.
