Calitatea Vieţii Persoanelor cu Dizabilităţi. Un model de cercetare calitativă în asistenţa socială
The quality of life of people with disabilities

Summary/Abstract: The present study has been commissioned by INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL and financed by SIDA (the Swedish International Development Agency). The aim of the study is to explore, understand and describe successful change processes of the intellectual disabilities projects developed in Kenya, South Africa, India and Romania. This study is presenting only a fragment of the final results; mainly, the one referring to the services offered to the persons with intellectual disabilities from Romania. The qualitative research allowed us to highlight some of the success methods used to increase the quality of life of these users from three organizations: the special school LACRIMA from Bistrita, the rehabilitation center ARNSBERG from Alba-Iulia and the day care center with protected living units PENTRU VOI from Timisoara. Tying up the comparative discussion, it seems evident that the essence of success reflected in these three projects, that makes them all stand out in relation to most other projects is the sympathy and identification with the persons served as shown among managers and staff. Sympathy, we believe is something more than empathy, involving an emotional bond to and a personal identification with the other as a subject, reducing the traditional gap between us and them. This is also what beneficiaries themselves, in various ways point out as the most significant qualities of these projects, and which we therefore believe contribute the most to the enhancement of their quality of life.

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