Health and welfare situation of the disabled and their families in their natural residential environment
Journal Title: Current Problems of Psychiatry - Year 2013, Vol 14, Issue 4
Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the health and welfare situation of the disabled and their families in their natural residential environment. The study covered 199 persons with motor disability and their families. Ninentynine study participants lived in nursing homes, while 100 – in their family homes. The study was conducted using a diagnostic survey. The disabled who lived in nursing homes were mainly single women from rural environments, with primary education; their health problems were related to the disorders of motor organs and nervous system. Most of them either had limited independence and needed occasional care or were fully dependent and needed twenty-four-hour care. The surveyed disabled who lived in family homes came from urban environments and had secondary or university education. The welfare situation of the disabled living in family homes was positively affected by a high percentage of professionally active family members. Thanks to the support of their families, people with a limited independence that lived in family homes coped with their dis-ability and its psychological effects better than the disabled living in nursing homes.
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Ewa Sienkiewicz, Jolanta Szymańska
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