One step forward, two steps back: Progress towards community-based disability support services in Europe
2021
Abstract
Considering policy and systems relevant to adults with disabilities, children, adults with mental health problems and older adults, no country had specific policy (legislation or strategy papers) covering all four of these groups although Romania and Hungary were the closest to doing so. In most countries, specific policies applied to only one or two groups (most commonly adults with disabilities and children) or reference to transforming services and deinstitutionalisation was more indirectly referenced in general policies.
Policy in Spain appeared to make no specific reference to deinstitutionalisation and community living for any of the four groups.