<p>This essay is about personal assistance for persons with considerable intellectual disabilities.</p><p>The purpose with the study is: to examine personal assistance for individuals, who can`t speak</p><p>for themselves, to examine how the individuals can determine and get influence into their</p><p>assistance and how they can get help with it, to examine the role of an representative in</p><p>relation to the serviceuser´s assistance and examine if there are factors of gender in the</p><p>interviews.</p><p>The chosen method is qualitative interviews.</p><p>The interviews has been analysed through earlier research about personal assistance and</p><p>theoretical perspectives like: influence, integration and citizenship and discussed through</p><p>perspectives of social psychology.</p><p>The main conclusions are: the influence the serviceusers can have is through persons who</p><p>know them very well, the role of the representatives are indistinct, the serviceusers can´t</p><p>determine their assistance themselves and need help with it from relatives, representatives,</p><p>personal assistants and managers, the persons who know the serviceuser intimately are best to</p><p>transform the needs to assistance. The factors of gender, are that there are more men as</p><p>personal assistants than in the care of elderly, and the representatives are mostly men. The</p><p>personal assistants appreciates the time they have for the serviceuser, the work can be lonely</p><p>and demanding.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-1256 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Kabell-Kjaer, Annicka |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för Hälsa och Samhälle (HOS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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