Everyday Life of Disabled Persons in Slovenia: The Case of Family Life and Leisure Time
Everyday Life of Disabled Persons in Slovenia: The Case of Family Life and Leisure Time

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to discuss the everyday life of disabled persons in Slovenia and differences with the rest of society. The private everyday lives of the disabled persons is a topic that often stays in the background and is ignored in political attempts to gain equality for the disabled compared with the rest of the population. In this article, we have focused on two domains of private life – family life and leisure time activities. We examined how the three disability related factors, identified by Lutz and Bowers (2005) influence these two domains. The basic conclusion of the article is that the gender and age of the disabled individual, the time when disability occurs and type of disability, strongly influence opportunities and characteristics of analysed micro-aspects of the everyday life of the disabled individual. The micro-sphere of disabled persons is structured by their disability and it would seem that the focus on “impairment” is still the main factor of how one is able to spend one’s leisure time or for the possibilities of starting a family.

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