THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE-PILOT MODEL OF PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION IN THE CASE OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIAS AND THEIR CARETAKERS
Keywords:
gerontological social assistance, dementia, good practice model, social economy, social enterprise.Abstract
The overall objective of this pilot research is to
facilitate an alternative respite care in case of dementia or
other disabilities for adults in question, and their
caretakers, by providing specialized services at the level of
Arad county and proximity; which could be disseminated
as a good practice model. Implementing such a prevention
and intervention model will generate a positive short,
medium and long-term effect: socially excluded people or
those at risk of social exclusion will be helped to integrate
or reintegrate into a social context, while developing and
promoting the concept of social economy through profitgenerating
activities and services will generate an increase
in the relevance of respite services because they represent a
too litlle developed field in Romania; respectively with an
increased risk of institutionalization and / or alienation of
social relations of people with dementia.
The expected results aim at the very intrinsic goal of
current social assistance, which is increasingly spreading
the outsourcing of social services from state to nongovernmental
ones (NGO); so that the use of Law n
219/15, published in M.O. no. 561/2015 on social economy
activities is a good idea to propose a model of voluntary,
solidarity and private initiative with a high degree of
autonomy and responsibility as the main mechanism for
the creation and sustainability of new social services;
generating good practice models worthy of multiplication.
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