Personal assistance support work for the disabled has the purpose to live independently and improve the social participation by offering personal assistance service to the disabled who have the difficulties in the comfortable daily life and social act...
Personal assistance support work for the disabled has the purpose to live independently and improve the social participation by offering personal assistance service to the disabled who have the difficulties in the comfortable daily life and social activities because of the physical and mental reasons. Therefore, Ministry of Health and Welfare has carried out the personal assistance support work for the disabled for the most serious disabled since April, 2007.
However, personal assistance support work taken effect by applying the paradigm of independent living does not come up to offer good services meeting the individual desires of the disabled despite the growth and development of independent living work.
Therefore, this study has the purpose to examine the state and points of personal assistance support work for improving the abilities of independent living in a comprehensive sense and indicate the remedies in improving them.
The ways of this study are as follows.
First, personal assistance support work means that the users of the service, the disabled, choose and control the suitable services for their desires. Second, personal assistance work for the disabled is the basis of independent living paradigm. Third, independent living is the applicable paradigm to all the disabled. Fourth, Personal assistance support work is an essential factor with social right security which is necessary to the independent daily life in the community.
The environmental change of the disabled and the enforcement of voucher system as social service are the attainment for self-determination right and independent living, the improvement of human respect and right in social circumstances.
Personal assistance service which was offered restrictively through independent living support model work for the serious disabled about their welfare during the past is institutionalized as general service, and solved the danger zones of welfare service for the disabled in a fashion through community service renovation work.
The claimable system of fundamental examination and revision about the limitation of welfare policies in the existing rehabilitation programs is Personal Assistance Service.
This study has the purpose to reveal the changed life and effect through personal assistance service since May, 2007 for independent living of the serious disabled who have the difficulties in living independently because the function of daily life is too low by the handicaps. This study is done through basic data examination of systematizing personal assistance service.
The subjects of study are the serious disabled of first and second string on rehabilitation center carrying out personal assistance service in Gwangju and Jeollanam-do, and I examined 102 handicapped people who used personal assistance service or use this now.
The instrument of examination is made out by putting various literatures and surveys of other researchers for examining the using state and effect of personal assistance support service for the disabled.
By this, the surveys were given to 160 handicapped people as new survey type, but finally 102 surveys were retrieved, so the retrieval rates are 62%. The contents of examination are the actual state, the details of population sociology and use in the areas, satisfaction and subordinate area of satisfaction, the change of life after using. The attitude and service skill of personal assistants that the disabled feel is examined. Also, in conflict area, I examined what area make much trouble with and what solution to solve the trouble is if the disabled make trouble with personal assistants.
As the study of references, the background of independent living movement and concrete enforcing details of support work which is social service in a broad sense and Korean governmental support work for the disabled, and personal assistance service for examining the theoretical background of personal assistance service. The background of personal assistance service for the disabled in foreign countries is examined to indicate how personal assistance service in Korea is, and also the outline of voucher system and changed details of personal assistance service as compared with the preceding year.
As the result of this study, first, the satisfaction of service increased when compared with the preceding year. (Lee Giyun, 2007) While the score of satisfaction is 2.9 in 2007, the examined result is 3.4 in 2008, so the satisfaction increased as usual. Among them, health conditions and environments and so on are changed positively. But the communication area except daily affairs has relatively the low scores, so the communication between user and assistant isn't flexible because of the independence in mental area.
Second, 61% of all answered positively the question 'Do the personal assistant understand the disabled?', this indicates that the education of characteristics for the disabled is needed to strengthen. Personal assistants have to offer the service helping physical activities for the disabled not to feel uncomfortable in living independently and participating in the society. The disabled themselves need to have the right of choice and determination for independent living, and personal assistant service system is needed to make a horizontal relation between the handicapped person and assistant.
That is why personal assistance service is different from other services. Also, being related to the health of the serious disabled, service skill is needed to increase through the education because the handicapped person or assistant may is hurted.
Third, the solution when the handicapped person made trouble with personal assistant is 'changing personal assistant(31.4%), the first, 'solving through the interview(28.4%), the next, 'solving by center coordinator(23.5%). Compared with the examination result of Shin Gyeong-Suk(2006), 'solving by center coordinator(61.5%)' was the highest, so self-awareness that the handicapped person is responsible for his life increased.
In other words, self-awareness of the disabled is developed and they want to receive the best service. By personal assistance service system, out of the understanding of people that the disabled cannot help depending upon others, the disabled want to complain to the society through independent living and combine with the society. Making much troubles with personal assistant, the examination result changing personal assistant and solving through the interview when the disabled conflict with their personal assistants shows this. It is revealed that the disabled used to solve through the arbitration in the past study.
In Korea, through the organizations, the disabled have claimed the independent living paradigm of the disabled that the cause of the obstacles is not the body but our society. The removal of environmental and social barrier is needed more than the establishment of the law.
By this examination result, this study shows that the present personal assistance support work has to be accepted as the service policy of consumer leading type.
In other words, improving the ability of independent living, the welfare service policy that makes the disabled choose satisfying lifestyle, exercise the initiative throughout all their life areas, decide their matters has to be promoted.
Therefore, the present personal assistance support work, first, this is needed to raise the service selecting standard of types for the disabled and level standard of confirmed times about the target of demand and supply, second, the communication system with consumers as the central figure is needed to construct. This indicates that the work is needed to establishment and run by extending the choice right and participation of the disabled. Third, the work is needed to promote the extension of budget and effective running, the support of agencies and personal assistants is needed to be extended. This financial support will lead the efforts of qualitative improvement in service by lowering the expenses of servicing agencies.