Common Contracts

DISCIT

February 25th, 2016

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  February 25th, 2016

The main aim of the third deliverable from Work Package 6 of the DISCIT project was to develop recommendations to promote and sustain the development of community living for all people with disabilities. The deliverable begins by reframing information presented in deliverable 6.1 which focused on a review of the literature on the impact of deinstitutionalisation and the available information in each country about the living situation of people with disabilities. This deliverable demonstrated that moving people into the community is important to improving their quality of life such as privacy, material conditions and the size of people’s social networks. However, it is not enough for producing a better quality of life in other domains, in particular with regard to participation, choice and inclusion as well as self-identity and access to community life requires. The available information demonstrated that all countries still have some way to go before all people with disabilities are ex