Stories
- Article
Chemotherapy-day drawings
Undergoing treatment for bowel cancer, artist Clare Smith produced around 70 abstract drawings while sitting in the chemotherapy chair. She reflects on how creativity can bring respite in a crisis.
- In pictures
Pum Dunbar’s living lessons
Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
- Article
Our Covid complicity
Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.
Catalogue
- Books
Respite care / The Good Care Group.
Good Care GroupDate: [2014?]- Books
Respite short term care / Four Seasons Health Care.
Four Seasons Health Care.Date: [2013]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Respite' information pack, including guidelines for the establishment of a Mental After Care Association (MACA) respite care scheme
Date: 1989Reference: SA/MAC/H.2/21Part of: Mental After Care Association- Books
Respite care / Alzheimer's Society.
Date: 2010- Books
Step forward ... : home care, day care, respite care, residential & nursing care / CIC Group, EachStep.
Date: [2012?]