Today, concepts like deinstitutionalization, demedicalization, normalization, social integration are emphasized in social services for the disabled. This means to create society in which persons with a disability live together with their families and friends and meet their basic needs in their own community. For this, our society has yet to learn that persons with a disability are people who want to be treated as peers. Until persons with a disability are given an opportunity, not only legally but also socially, to be treated as peers, social services will be only partially effective.
A number of community rehabilitation facilities provide funds and services to persons with a disability in our society. Welfare Centers serving those with a mental and physical disability provide a variety of services, generally including vocational evaluation, sheltered employment, work adjustment training, counseling services, education services, and placement services. A number of those facilities such as group homes, halfway houses, daycare centers and nursing homes provide living arrangements for children and adults with disability who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to live with their families. Meals on wheels, home health services, and homemaker services are provided as home services. However, these facilities and services are not enough to meet all the needs of the disabled, and are largely located in urban areas.
For community rehabilitation services to be more effective, empowerment and participation of the disabled should be emphasized. The service delivery system for the disabled should be well organized in every communities including rural areas, and should be efficiently operated. Through the system we should make welfare society in which all the people -- young or old, disabled or non-disabled -- enjoy the high quality of living in their community.
show good effect even though it appears to be statistically insignificant.
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