Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments LSS

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Act concerning Support andService for Persons
with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS)

• Rights granted by law issued 1993Act (1993387)

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The law guarantees

• Good living conditions
• Ensure they receive the help they need in daily
  life
• Possibility to influence the support and services
  they receive

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The act contains provisions relating to measures
for special support and special service for those

• who are mentally retarded, are autistic or have a
  condition resembling autism
• who have a considerable and permanent,
  intellectual functional impairment after brain
  damage when an adult, the impairment being caused
  by external force or a physical illness, or
• who have some other lasting physical or mental
  functional impairments which are manifestly not
  due to normal ageing, if these impairments are
  major and cause considerable difficulties in
  daily life and, consequently, an extensive need
  for support or service.

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Processing

• Request for support and service
• Certain criteria must be met (entitled 1 and 2
  requires doctors certificate entitled 3
  requires investigation/assessment)
• Evaluation to ascertain whether it is a measure
  that is regulated by this Act
• Measures pursuant to this Act are only provided
  when the individual requests them
• Must need assistance in activities of daily
  living
• Their needs may not be met in any other way

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Diagnoses

• Neuropsychiatric problems
• Intellectual disability
• Psychiatric disorders
• Severe physical disability
• Multiple functional impairments

• Autism, ADHD, DAMP
• Epilepsy
• Stroke
• Cerebral Pares
• Schizophrenica
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinson
• Alzheimer
• Diabetes
• Speech handicap
• Less well-known diagnoses, such as Amyotrophic
  lateral sclerosis (ALS)

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Advice and other personal support

• Complement to measures such as rehabilitation,soci
  al services
• Individuals who qualify for measures pursuant to
  this Act may be entitled to support from experts,
  who,
• in addition to their professional knowledge, also
  have special knowledge about what it is like to
  live with serious functional impairments.
• Professionals Social workers, physiotherapists,
  occupational therapists, Medical doctors,
  psychologists, nurse

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Cornstones

• Attitudes in everyday contacts with user
• Everyone is of equal value
• Equal rights
• Advice/support to live an independent life e.g.
  job, daily activities, education, economic
  matters, physical training, leasure, hobby,
  communication, family life, friends
• The users idea of an independent life
• Respect for an individuals right to
  self-determination and privacy
• Allow the user to exercise influence of planning,
  design of measures, implementation

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• Identifying and removing obstacles to full
  participation
• Preventing and fighting discrimination
• Accessibility of physical environment (e.g.
  training at gym or pool)
• All measures/contacts must be accepted by the
  user and/or legal representative
• The user is our employer
• Quality of activities shall be systematically and
  continously improved and assured.
• Confidentiality

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Best practices LSS Support och Service Team

• The cornestone of our work is the principle that
  everyone is of equal value and has equal rights.
  All our work is permeated by respect, integrity,
  independence, inclusion and participation.
• Our overall task is to safeguard the rights and
  interests of disabled people by co-ordinating
  measures (e.g. employment offices, local
  municipalities, social insurance officies),
  supporting and promoting such issues in their
  dealings with other authorities.
• Our aim is, according to the LSS law, to give the
  user the tools to fulfill their own ideas of
  the substance of a good life. The user is our
  employer and all our contacts, all measures,
  are taken when accepted by the user and/or legal
  representative.

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Statistics

• Totally in Norrbotten in 2007
• Group 1 1.119 persons
• Group 2 99 persons
• Group 3 478 persons
• Population 251.886 persons