Disability and community living policies / Arie Rimmerman (University of Haifa).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rimmerman, Arie, author.

Series:

Cambridge disability, law and policy series

Cambridge disability law and policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Housing.

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

xv, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the roots of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization legislation and policies of the twentieth century, and twenty-first-century efforts to promote community living policies domestically and internationally, particularly through the role of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), a landmark treaty adopted on 13 December 2006. Rimmerman shows that deinstitutionalization and community living cannot be examined only in terms of the number of institutions closed but also through the substantial change in values, legislation, and policies supporting personalization, as well as the social participation of people with disabilities. The book includes a significant exploration of United States legislation and important Supreme Court decisions compared with European policies toward community living. Finally it discusses the importance of Articles 12 and 19 of the convention and demonstrates the case of Israel that has used the convention as a road map for proposing a new community living policy"-- Provided by publisher.

"Twenty-first century finds a significant decline of the number of people with disabilities living in institutional care in both sides of the Atlantic. The United States' Supreme Court's Olmstead decision of 1999 is considered a milestone in establishing nondiscrimination policy on community living of people with intellectual disability/developmental disability (ID/DD). European deinstitutionalization community living policies are more scattered because of core differences in their social welfare approaches (social democratic, liberal and conservative countries, and particularly between them and former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe). The book provides updated comparative analyses of community living between the United States and Europe with respect to changes in values and ideologies, policies, and legislation, and particularly to their response to the UNCRPD"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theology, eugenics, and the roots of change

The paradigm shift of Articles 12 and 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)

US policy towards community living as aspects of nondiscrimination

European perspectives on the right to community living

Comparing community living policies: United States vs Europe

Promoting change in community living of people with intellectual disabilities: the case of Israel

Closing remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107140714

1107140714

OCLC:

965760239