Making Persons with Disabilities Full Citizens - New Knowledge for an Inclusive and Sustainable European Social Model
Abstrakt
The main aim of the third deliverable from Work Package 6 of the DISCIT project was to develop recommendations to promote and sustain the development of community living for all people with disabilities. The deliverable begins by reframing information presented in deliverable 6.1 which focused on a review of the literature on the impact of deinstitutionalisation and the available information in each country about the living situation of people with disabilities.
This deliverable demonstrated that moving people into the community is important to improving their quality of life such as privacy, material conditions and the size of people's social networks. However, it is not enough for producing a better quality of life in other domains, in particular with regard to participation, choice and inclusion as well as self-identity and access to community life requires.
The available information demonstrated that all countries still have some way to go before all people with disabilities are experiencing active citizenship. Data which was available on the extent to which people were actively involved in their lives and their communities indicated that those with intellectual disabilities often spent their time isolated and disengaged.