Housing Services for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Recent Structural Changes in the Finnish Welfare State
摘要
This chapter examines the shift in housing services for people with intellectual disabilities from institutions to individualised housing services. First, this change is examined on a practical level. The perspective is what kind of changes have occurred in type of housing services for people with intellectual disabilities in the twenty-first century. The distribution between public and private providers is also critically examined. The overall situation in housing services for people with intellectual disabilities has been a successful effort to move away from institutional living. The last part of the chapter discusses a recent reorganisation of social and health services in Finland into larger entities. This is a reversing of the decentralisation that has been going on in the Nordic region for decades. It also appears to have interrupted the ongoing deinstitutionalisation, and one sees a trend towards re-institutionalisation. Financial issues appear to cause these recent trends.