Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities to Have a Good Life as They Grow Older

Christine Towers has over 35 years' experience of working with people with learning disabilities and their families. During this time, she has worked in the not-for-profit sector as well as health and social care services with a focus on the development and management of services. Christine has also been involved in a number of research projects. Central to her work has been developing ideas alongside people with learning disabilities and their families, partnership working and person-centred approaches. She has been a member of the National Valuing Families Forum for over ten years. She worked at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities for 10 years where her particular areas of interest were planning with families, improving the quality of support, older people with learning disabilities and the development of social and community networks. Christine set up Together Matters as she believes that talking, planning and working together help people to find new approaches to overcome hurdles and can lead to people with learning disabilities getting good lives.