Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v25i1.1415
Welfare Mix in Disability Policy - Support to Social Model of Disability
Jasna Ostojić Baus
orcid.org/0000-0002-5471-4370
; Gradsko društvo Crveni križ Zagreb
Abstract
This paper considers the concept of welfare mix in the context of its potential in the field of services for people with disabilities. Through defining the concepts of welfare mix and social model of disability, the author analyses connections and similarities between these two concepts. Influences of welfare mix on operationalization of social model of disability are being analysed. Application of welfare mix towards people with disabilities is inseparable from the development of social capital of local communities. Also, the application of welfare mix in the sense of a social model of disability is unthinkable without models of including service users in the process of decision making about delivering programs of social services. Finally, there are certain dilemmas about the future development of welfare mix which are being reviewed in the context of disability groups. The author concludes by confirming welfare mix to be an adequate framework for developing modern services for people with disabilities.
Keywords
welfare mix; social model of disability; social capital; disability; service providers
Hrčak ID:
197936
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Publication date:
28.3.2018.
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