scale called work services on demand. support. Type of which is supervised living). Care staff is available in equipment and supported by services flat-sharing Bedridden persons the frame of a adaptations to meet their the social in the community and persons who permanent on-call needs is assessed by welfare (betreute are unable to live management. Concrete professionals together such alone are not the provisions, such as a with users. The excluded). – as group target group. maximum of choice of activities for 4,523 Persons homes, Additionally, inhabitants in full or which support is needed with disabilities protected persons with partly assistant living is limited to/directed by received homes, sensory disabilities vary with the provinces the kind and on the grade residential care family are explicitly and the service of disability. The in Upper type excluded in some providers. users determine how their Austria Provinces, such as care allowance Eligible persons are (including full Styria. (Pflegegeld) is used for adults (18 years and assisted living etc.) their subsistence. The older), who are able to and partly kind of care work carry out personal care assisted living), provided is by and household tasks further 3,219 the care needs of the (partly assisted living) persons were users. Care work is or not (full assisted earmarked for in partly living). The this. This is a assistant living. users have to pay for fulfillment of their subsistence (rent demand rate of and livelihood) and 58,4%. receive welfare-support for the care services. Residential services are funded by the Provinces and provided
scale services in the – such as group homes, protected homes, family type etc.) called supervised flat-sharing community (betreute work living). Bedridden persons and persons who are unable to live alone are not the target group. Additionally, persons with sensory disabilities are explicitly excluded in some Provinces, such as Styria. services on demand. Care staff is available in the frame of a permanent on-call management. Concrete provisions, such as a maximum of inhabitants in full or partly assistant living vary with the provinces and the service providers. Eligible persons are adults (18 years and older), who are able to carry out personal care and household tasks (partly assisted living) or not (full assisted living). The users have to pay for their subsistence (rent and livelihood) and receive welfare-support for the care services. Residential services are funded by the Provinces and provided support. Type of equipment and adaptations to meet their needs is assessed by professionals together with users. The choice of activities for which support is needed is limited to/directed by the kind and on the grade of disability. The users determine how their care allowance (Pflegegeld) is used for their subsistence. The kind of care work provided is by the care needs of the users. Care work is in partly assistant living. which is supported by the social welfare excluded). 4,523 Persons with disabilities received residential care in Upper Austria (including full assisted living and partly assisted living), further 3,219 persons were earmarked for this. This is a fulfillment of demand rate of 58,4%.
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