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Challenges posed by COVID-19 to the health of people with disabilities living in residential care facilities in Romania
- Author:
- SAFTA-ZECHERIA Leyla
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(5), 2020, pp.837-843.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
On the 19th of March 2020, a Human Rights NGO demanded urgent measures be taken to protect the right to health of people with disabilities in residential care facilities - including psychiatric hospitals and residential care facilities - in Romania (Center for Legal Resources (CLR) 2020a). This article explains the legitimacy of this demand in the Romanian context, building on my own experience as an ethnographer of residential care institutions for people with disabilities, adding new substantive clarifications to the need to act in a coordinated manner to prevent serious harm to the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities in residential care facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Romania and in other countries faced with similar situations. The evidence presented is limited to the Romanian case which the author is familiar with on the grounds of the ethnographic and policy research that was conducted on deinstutionalization and residential care in Romania. Nevertheless, the author thinks that similar dynamics might be at play in other East European countries, as well as other countries, where large and medium sized residential institutions for people with disabilities and for elderly people or other vulnerable and marginalized populations are still being operated.
Romania: legislation and provision of services for people with a mental handicap
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 5(2), 1998, pp.55-58.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Looks at the experience of parents, carers and workers in accessing and understanding current legislation for people with a mental handicap in Romania.
Knee jerk journalism about social work in Romania and Britain
- Author:
- JACK Raymond
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 3(1), 1996, pp.40-42.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Gives an optimistic account of the present state of social work and social welfare in Romania. Looks in particular at recent initiatives in social work education which are helping to re-assert social work as a profession in Romania which has the respect of its population. Also argues that social work in the UK could benefit from a more supportive environment.