Exploring transitions in family care for people with Learning Disabilities

Tom Ryan has been successful in securing an award for a vital new project looking at care transitions in later life for adults with learning disabilities.

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The project 鈥楴o one wants to talk about it: Exploring transitions in family care for people with Learning Disabilities鈥 is funded by Sheffield School for Social Care Research (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) will have a focus on family care and sibling relationships. 

The project will carry out exploratory work with people with learning disabilities, siblings, and parent carers to better understand their requirements in transitions in care as primary carers (usually parents) age and the caring relationships between siblings change. A key aim of this project is to explore the feasibility of carrying out ethical research which brings together the perspectives of all family members to begin to generate new understandings and better support at points of transition in family care.

Project partners include: My Life My Choice, Oxford; Dr Sue Caton, Manchester Metropolitan University and Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole, The School of Education, 爆料TV.

Tom said, 鈥淚鈥檓 really excited to get started in what I hope will be an interesting and important project in a much needed area of research.鈥