INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING

By the realization of this project, HISARYA Municipality is going to improve the quality of life and the social services access for including people with disabilities and elders of age over 65 years, who has no self-service ability. The project predicts that the services will be represented in 18-month period and they will include 52 people with disabilities and their families andpeople of age over 65 years with disabilities and/or unable of self-service. 30 Personal assistants and 11 Domestic assistants will be selected, who will provide daily care of the targeted group users at their homes. It is predicted that social workers, medical nurse and psychologist will be drawn on, who will provide psychological, social and medical assistance. Social-psychological and health help together with the service for personal assistant and domestic assistant will create complex and integrated services for the people with self-service inability and for the people with disabilities and will provide long-term care of complex activities. Targeted group users, who had been evaluated over operation “New alternatives”, will be newly evaluated for their needs, as in the current project the services inherently acquire integrated and innovative character. Leading principle of the activities execution will be placing the individual needs in the center and providing integrated access to health, social and other services, in accordance with the specific disadvantaged human needs, having in mind his particular evaluation. Separate activity related to the project awareness and publicity is predicted. Informative materials for distribution will be prepared and printed out, conferences will be conducted and other informational methods will be used, as advertisements in local newspapers and regular noted at the municipality web site.

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