INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND
Personal assistance for people with disabilities in Poland is not available as part of a comprehensive state policy; it is instead a dispersed, fragmented service based on projects. There is a lack of both a national strategy for independent living (including solutions for personal assistance as a...
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| author | Ewa Giermanowska Mariola Racław Dorota Szawarska |
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| description | Personal assistance for people with disabilities in Poland is not available as part of a comprehensive state policy;
it is instead a dispersed, fragmented service based on projects. There is a lack of both a national strategy for
independent living (including solutions for personal assistance as a key tool) and a plan for deinstitutionalisation of support services. A disabled person as an independent entity seems to be invisible to legislators, despite
the postulates regarding “tailor-made” services or “profiling of help” present in public discourse. At the same
time, uncoordinated changes are taking place regarding support for people with disabilities, including assistance
services. They are partly forced by Poland’s ratification (2012) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and partly due to grassroots social innovations of non-governmental organizations. In the
article, the authors analyse the factors responsible for the current state of affairs in the context of the theory
of imposed modernization, emphasizing the superficiality of institutional changes. They will refer to critical
research of public policies (so-called street level bureaucracies) analysing the daily practices of public officials
and the social consequences for their recipients. The limitations of the model of personal assistance services as
services including disabled people in the mainstream of social life will also be discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-08fdef35e81c4000a5b0f3e8e0343ac32023-09-02T16:45:53ZengWydawnictwa AGHStudia Humanistyczne AGH2084-33642084-33642020-09-011937392https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2020.19.3.73INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLANDEwa Giermanowska0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3169-9841Mariola Racław1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7614-0507Dorota Szawarska2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7614-0507Uniwersytet WarszawskiUniwersytet WarszawskiUniwersytet WarszawskiPersonal assistance for people with disabilities in Poland is not available as part of a comprehensive state policy; it is instead a dispersed, fragmented service based on projects. There is a lack of both a national strategy for independent living (including solutions for personal assistance as a key tool) and a plan for deinstitutionalisation of support services. A disabled person as an independent entity seems to be invisible to legislators, despite the postulates regarding “tailor-made” services or “profiling of help” present in public discourse. At the same time, uncoordinated changes are taking place regarding support for people with disabilities, including assistance services. They are partly forced by Poland’s ratification (2012) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and partly due to grassroots social innovations of non-governmental organizations. In the article, the authors analyse the factors responsible for the current state of affairs in the context of the theory of imposed modernization, emphasizing the superficiality of institutional changes. They will refer to critical research of public policies (so-called street level bureaucracies) analysing the daily practices of public officials and the social consequences for their recipients. The limitations of the model of personal assistance services as services including disabled people in the mainstream of social life will also be discussed.https://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/index.php?vol=2020.19.3: personal assistancedisabled personimposed modernizationindependent life strategydeinstitutionalisation of servicespoland |
| spellingShingle | Ewa Giermanowska Mariola Racław Dorota Szawarska INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND Studia Humanistyczne AGH : personal assistance disabled person imposed modernization independent life strategy deinstitutionalisation of services poland |
| title | INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND |
| title_full | INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND |
| title_fullStr | INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND |
| title_full_unstemmed | INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND |
| title_short | INSTITUTIONALIZED CHAOS INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT LIVING. FORCED MODERNIZATION AND ASSISTANT SERVICES IN POLAND |
| title_sort | institutionalized chaos instead of independent living forced modernization and assistant services in poland |
| topic | : personal assistance disabled person imposed modernization independent life strategy deinstitutionalisation of services poland |
| url | https://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/index.php?vol=2020.19.3 |
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