Support to individuals with comprehensive disabilities: Ideas in the Swedish Disability Act

Kent Ehliasson; Ulf Ericsson; Anita Bengtsson-Tops

doi:10.1080/15017419.2015.1064024

Support to individuals with comprehensive disabilities: Ideas in the Swedish Disability Act

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 18 (2016): Issue 3

By: Kent Ehliasson, Ulf Ericsson and Anita Bengtsson-Tops

Open Access

|Aug 2016

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine and describe the ideas, that is, a mental construction of perceived reality and values, which are expressed in the Swedish Disability Act and its Government Bill. By means of text analysis, four concepts of reality and values have been identified: (1) Citizenship and justice, (2) The collective and integration, (3) The individual and autonomy, and (4) Decentralization and power shifts. The study also shows that social rights and social citizenship have been strengthened via legislation for individuals with comprehensive disabilities. It is also demonstrated that there is considerable room in the legislation for conflicts between the two concepts and values of collective/integration and the individual/autonomy. It can also be observed that there is a considerable risk that citizens are not treated in a similar manner as regards the interpretation and application of the Disability Act, which may lead to lack of legal security.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2015.1064024 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 234 - 244

Submitted on: Mar 1, 2014

Accepted on: May 13, 2015

Published on: Aug 3, 2016

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Comprehensive disabilities,

Swedish Disability Act,

ideas,

concepts of reality,

values

© 2016 Kent Ehliasson, Ulf Ericsson, Anita Bengtsson-Tops, published by Stockholm University Press
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