About Us
Well Adapt is a social enterprise led for and by disabled people who are reimagining health and social care through the lens of disability justice.
Disabled and chronically ill people are regularly abandoned by health and social care systems leading to completely avoidable pain, hardship and death.
We work with policymakers, healthcare providers, and communities to build health and social care systems grounded in disability justice – recognising that intersecting marginalisations such race, gender, class, and sexuality all shape how people experience health and care.
Our vision is a world where interdependence and reciprocity are the foundation of wellbeing: where everyone both gives and receives support, and all forms of human variation are treated as part of the richness of life, not a problem to be fixed.
Our Vision
At Well Adapt we envision a world where every disabled or chronically-ill person has the opportunity to build a fulfilling life. We strive to empower people by providing them with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to curate a life they truly love. We are firm believers in the fact that equal access to happiness should be within every disabled person’s reach. We are dedicated to creating a society where disabled and chronically ill people can thrive on their own terms.
Our Mission
Our mission is to revolutionise the chronic illness healthcare system. The current healthcare system is not designed for chronic illnesses but rather for acute conditions. Well Adapt aim is to remodel the approach, centring and giving platforms to disabled and chronically ill people as the experts in our own experiences alongside healthcare professionals.
Our mission is to facilitate the co-creation of health and care systems that empower disabled and chronically ill people to manage our own lives and wellbeing.
Meet our Founder
Our Founding story
Our founder, Georgia Bondy, began Well Adapt after personally experiencing the lack of resources for health, care and wellbeing that worked for them as a disabled person.
‘For years before and after I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, I had worsening physical and mental health that contributed to each other in horrible cycles. I was offered NHS talking therapies but with poor mobility and crushing fatigue, I regularly failed to attend my appointments. Doctors told me that physical exercise would help but couldn’t tell me how to do it without causing debilitating flare-ups.
Eventually, I found mindfulness meditation that I could do at home whenever I was feeling up to it. The skills I learned were invaluable but nevertheless, it was imperfect. Mindfulness apps asked things of me that my body couldn’t do and it made me feel terribly alone. Exercise was also still out of reach; on a memorable Sunday, a single pilates class left me bed bound for a week.
A few years after that disastrous pilates class, I was creating my own mindfulness meditation practice and my improved mental health gave me the confidence to attend a pole class with an instructor that also had hypermobile joints. She taught me to exercise safely and I have rarely been more grateful to a human being. I have been pole dancing ever since!
These experiences made me realised that disabled people like myself have been problem solving their way to better physical and mental wellbeing as long as disability has existed. So much health, care and wellbeing knowledge exists in the disabled community and I want to share it with as many people as I can. That is what Well Adapt is all about.’