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Social services facilites for disabled people. By type of facility. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Social services facilites for disabled people. Centres and places. By type of facility. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2011
Residential centres Residential homes Specialised care centres Occupational centres Total
Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places
Alt Camp 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 73 3 81
Alt Empordà 1 41 3 45 2 56 2 126 8 268
Alt Penedès 5 68 5 58 1 8 5 137 16 271
Alt Urgell 0 0 2 27 0 0 2 45 4 72
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 3 63 12 133 2 37 4 162 21 395
Aran 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 2 25
Bages 6 171 14 222 2 27 6 366 28 786
Baix Camp 5 474 5 81 1 15 4 215 15 785
Baix Ebre 0 0 3 47 0 0 6 184 9 231
Baix Empordà 1 16 3 34 1 7 4 98 9 155
Baix Llobregat 7 263 18 399 5 105 26 1,081 56 1,848
Baix Penedès 0 0 3 43 0 0 2 116 5 159
Barcelonès 24 650 73 1,127 18 484 83 3,381 198 5,642
Berguedà 1 60 2 12 0 0 2 120 5 192
Cerdanya 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 21 3 29
Conca de Barberà 0 0 2 19 0 0 2 45 4 64
Garraf 1 60 2 68 1 15 2 115 6 258
Garrigues 0 0 2 40 0 0 2 65 4 105
Garrotxa 1 20 3 36 1 21 3 85 8 162
Gironès 9 282 11 134 3 95 7 201 30 712
Maresme 7 346 15 208 5 51 13 604 40 1,209
Montsià 1 31 4 68 1 12 2 71 8 182
Noguera 1 34 3 31 0 0 2 53 6 118
Osona 1 56 5 105 1 12 3 157 10 330
Pallars Jussà 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 3 69 2 48 0 0 2 78 7 195
Pla de l'Estany 2 28 1 18 0 0 3 64 6 110
Priorat 0 0 1 7 0 0 1 25 2 32
Ribera d'Ebre 0 0 3 19 0 0 1 60 4 79
Ripollès 1 26 4 47 1 36 3 108 9 217
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 39 2 39
Segrià 7 355 18 415 3 138 15 716 43 1,624
Selva 1 79 7 117 0 0 9 360 17 556
Solsonès 0 0 1 20 0 0 1 39 2 59
Tarragonès 2 54 6 101 1 10 9 326 18 491
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 3 71 0 0 4 113 7 184
Vallès Occidental 11 651 22 301 2 53 27 1,179 62 2,184
Vallès Oriental 4 134 8 153 3 67 9 438 24 792
Catalonia 105 4,031 268 4,270 54 1,249 274 11,091 701 20,641
Metropolità 53 2,044 136 2,188 33 760 158 6,683 380 11,675
Comarques Gironines 16 492 32 431 8 215 31 1,042 87 2,180
Camp de Tarragona 7 528 15 216 2 25 18 684 42 1,453
Terres de l'Ebre 1 31 10 134 1 12 9 315 21 492
Ponent 11 458 28 605 3 138 27 1,064 69 2,265
Comarques Centrals 8 287 22 359 3 39 12 682 45 1,367
Alt Pirineu i Aran 0 0 3 35 0 0 6 91 9 126
Penedès 9 191 22 302 4 60 13 530 48 1,083
Barcelona 70 2,522 176 2,786 40 859 180 7,740 466 13,907
Girona 16 492 33 439 8 215 33 1,063 90 2,209
Lleida 11 458 31 652 3 138 32 1,173 77 2,421
Tarragona 8 559 28 393 3 37 29 1,115 68 2,104
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: March 7, 2017.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Specialised care centre
Centre that offers daytime placement and care services for people with serious disabilities that, due to their high level of affectation, need care and support for their day to day activities and when this service cannot be provided by any other daily service forming part of the general network of the education system.
Occupational centre
Centre offering services that pertain to two modalities [1]: occupational therapy service and occupational labour insertion therapy. These services are addressed at facilitating their beneficiaries with daytime care of a rehabilitation nature in order for, in accordance with each individual's capacities, them to become as integrated in society as possible. The beneficiaries are disabled people of a working age that have not managed to achieve integration in the employment environment.
Residential centre
Centre that offers residential placement services of a temporary or permanent nature that serve as replacements for the home, and are equipped to host people with a high level of affectation that need care and support in their daily activities, and that for family or social reasons, or due to geographical location, are unable to live in their own homes, such that it is essential for them to be admitted temporarily or permanently into a centre of such characteristics.
Physical disability
It is divided into two types: Motor: Physical disability suffering people who have affected the ability to move for various reasons (birth defects, accidents, brain injury...). Non-motor: Physical disability with people who for organic causes cannot develop a full life (fatigue, coronary heart disease, kidney disease, lung disease...).
Intellectual disability
Disability presented by persons who, for both congenital and acquired causes, have mental deficiencies. This group is characterized by intellectual function below average and ease of understanding and information reduced. This category does not include people with mental illness.
Residential home
Residence offering services that pertain to two modalities: residences with support service and residential home. The former are developed in the physical structure of an ordinary home that constitutes the usual residence of the people that live in it and are aimed at disabled people that have sufficient capacity and autonomy to organise their own everyday activities, but that as a result of their disability, need specialist, personal or community support. The latter are residential placement services, of a temporary or permanent nature, which substitute the home and are developed within an establishment and are aimed at disabled people that need permanent or temporary supervision and/or assistance in order for them to cope with everyday activities.
Specialised care social service
Level of specific action aimed at the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, support and rehabilitation of the social deficits of people belonging to collectives or segments of the population due to the singularity of their needs. These services are provided by specialised professionals and depending on different cases, may use community, daytime or residential services along with other adequate resources for said purpose.

Methodological aspects

The Catalan social services system is the coordinated set of personal services, facilities, activities, economic benefits and of prevention, care and social promotion in Catalonia, which aims to ensure the participation of all citizens in the benefits of social life. Is specifically designed for individuals, families or groups who, by having difficulties in the development and integration into society, lack of personal autonomy, physical, mental or sensory disabilities, family problems or suffer social marginalization, are creditors of collective and caring effort.

The system is divided functionally into primary care social services and social services of specialized care, and is organized territorially in key areas of social services, sectors of county, regional and territorial areas of Catalonia, and in the following areas of action: care for family, childhood and adolescence; care for people with disabilities, old age care and treatment of drug addicts.

Location services can be temporary or permanent.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.