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1. Personlig assistans i praktiken : Beredskap initiativ och vänskaplighet
Sammanfattning : Personal assistance is a user-directed service that was founded by a section of the disability movement, namely the American Independent Living movement, in the late 1960s. Today, the concept and ideology of personal assistance services (PAS) has spread worldwide, and constitutes a part of the support system for people with disabilities in many countries. LÄS MER
2. Quality of personal assistance: Shaped by governments, markets and corporations
Sammanfattning : Background: Swedish personal assistance for people with severe disabilities became a legal right in 1994. The support is completely financed by the government and with a few exceptions transferred to External assistance providers (EAPs). There are three types of EAP; the municipality (i.e. LÄS MER
3. Enabling disability rights in practise : Understanding how the governance of state-funded personal assistance is fulfilling the Swedish LSS Act
Sammanfattning : Personal assistance (PA) is stated in Article 19 of the UNCRPD as an internationally recognised disability right and is operationalised as a measure in the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (the LSS Act). The Act’s overall policy goal is to promote good living conditions for the eligible persons by enabling participation in society on equal terms with others. LÄS MER
4. Live life! Young peoples' experience of living with personal assistance and social workers' experiences of handling LSS assessments from a child perspective
Sammanfattning : The Act Concerning Support and Services to Persons with Certain Functional Impairments, in which the provision of personal assistance (PA) is included, came into force in 1994. It paved the way for strengthened rights for people with disabilities, in which the overall intention was to give disabled people equal opportunities and enable full participation in society. LÄS MER
5. Marknadsorientering av socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg : om villkor, processer och konsekvenser
Sammanfattning : Since the end of the 1980s, the introduction of market mechanisms in the public sector has been a dominant feature in Sweden. The same is true for the social services in several municipalities, where business style behaviour and organisation, and competition have become salient features of market-oriented social services. LÄS MER