The Report on the State of Residential Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities, English version. The report presents fundamental findings on the availability of residential services in the Czech Republic and the living conditions of young people and adults with intellectual disabilities. It was published in Czech in 2021 and it still remains the largest survey of its kind to date.
The full „Report Living Like Others“ here.
Key Findings:
- 15,000 people with intellectual disabilities live in residential social services, two-thirds of whom are in inadequate conditions.
- 9,400 people with intellectual disabilities live in services that do not meet the conditions for quality of life and social inclusion.
- People with intellectual disabilities often have to move “to the services” because even services that meet the conditions for quality of life and inclusion are not available everywhere (see Map 1).
- For nearly 11,000 people with intellectual disabilities living in towns of 50,000 residents, only 755 places are available that meet the conditions for quality of life and inclusion (see Table 5).
- In cities with over 50,000 residents, 14 people with intellectual disabilities share one bed in social services that offer suitable conditions for quality of life and inclusion; in cities with 10,000–50,000 residents, there are 6 people per place (see Graph 9).
- More than half of the places in services enabling quality of life and inclusion established by the City of Prague are in other regions, mostly in small, poorly accessible municipalities (see Map 3).
- People requiring higher levels of support occupy 81 % of the places in residential homes for people with disabilities, compared to only 28 % in sheltered housing (see Table 8)
The report was published by the Society for the Support of People with Intellectual Disabilities in the Czech Republic (Společnost pro podporu lidí s mentálním postižením v ČR, z. s.) and the Unity for Deinstitutionalisation – JDI (Jednota pro deinstitucionalizaci – JDI, z. s.), This publication was supported by the Abakus Foundation as part of the “Out of the Nest” project about the emancipation of young people with disabilities.