Still His Mum - Parenting, Advocacy, and Love in Adult Social Care

Lorena Hall

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Independent Publishing Network
28 June 2025

Teaching of specific learning difficulties & needs; Nursing & ancillary services; Home nursing & caring; Coping with disability

Still His Mum is a powerful and deeply personal exploration of parenting, advocacy, and love within the adult social care system. Written by a mother, researcher, and long-time practitioner, this book combines lived experience and professional insight to illuminate the realities of navigating care systems for individuals with a learning disability.

At its heart, this is a book about relationships: between mother and son, between families and services, and between policy and personhood. It asks difficult questions about inclusion, communication, and who gets to be heard. Through stories that are honest, tender, and sometimes painful, it exposes the epistemic injustice faced by families and the people they love, and challenges the language and labels that often shape care practice.

Yet this is also a book about hope. Grounded in good practice and real moments of connection, it honours the power of relational care, the importance of being truly seen, and the emotional labour that sits behind co-production, advocacy, and family voice.

Still His Mum is a call to centre love, belonging, and dignity at the heart of adult social care. It will resonate with professionals, policymakers, and anyone who cares about disability rights, supported living, and what it truly means to stay present in someone's life.

By: Lorena Hall
Imprint: Independent Publishing Network
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781836884088
ISBN 10: 1836884087
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 28 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lorena Hall is a writer, researcher, lecturer and mum. Her work sits at the intersection of lived experience, critical disability theory and inclusive research. She lectures in Health and Social Care at Bishop Grosseteste University and is undertaking a PhD that explores friendship, belonging, and liminality in learning disability day services. Lorena has developed accessible research training with and for people with learning disabilities and believes strongly in co-produced and creative approaches to knowledge-making. She lives in Lincolnshire with her family.

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