Publications Free to Download

In addition to the publications for sale in our website Shop, SIA produce a range of fact sheets and other publications that are free to download. Please click on the titles below to downoad material:

FACT SHEETS

Ageing - Steps to Ageing Well: Step 1 Shoulder Care

Ageing - Steps to Ageing Well: Step 2 Caring for your skin

Ageing - Steps to Ageing Well: Step 3 The Ageing Bladder

Ageing - Steps to Ageing Well: Step 4 Bowel Care

Ageing - Steps to Ageing Well: Step 5 Nutrition

Ageing - Steps to Ageing Well: Step 6 Physical Activity

Air Travel - EU Regulations on Air Travel

Autonomic Dysreflexia

Bladder Management

Blue Badge Scheme

Bowel Management

Charging for Community Care Services – currently being updated

Diet and Exercise

Emotional Impact on the family

Emotional Support

Employment - Your Right to Employment

Employment Support Allowance - currently being up-dated

Equality Act - How to make a claim under the Equality Act

Equipment - Buying and Selling Second Hand

Equipment - Hiring Aids and Equipment in the UK and abroad

Fertility and Fatherhood – currently being updated

Grants - Applying to Grant Making Trusts

Grants - Disabled Facilities Grants

Grants - Heating Grants - The Warm Front Scheme

Hate Crimes

Independent Living – currently being updated

Insurance

NHS - Dealing with issues in the NHS – currently being updated

Overseas Organisations

Pain Management

Pressure Care

Pressure Ulcers - the basics

Spinal Cord Injury Centres

Useful Websites

VAT - Reduced VAT for Disabled People

Welfare and Benefits

Women - Breast Awareness for Women with a Spinal Cord Injury

Women - Motherhood

Women's Health

GUIDELINES AND REPORTS

Guidelines for Management of Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction

Management of the older person with a new SCI

No Less A Quality of Life
An evaluation of the SIA Community Peer Support Service by a team of researchers from the Faculty of Health at the University of Plymouth

Preserving and Developing the National SCI Service

Survey on Ageing with a Spinal Cord Injury