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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 2019
Residential centres Residential homes Specialised care centres Occupational centres Total
Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places
Alt Camp 0 0 3 46 0 0 4 100 7 146
Alt Empordà 1 44 3 45 2 90 3 146 9 325
Alt Penedès 4 64 5 58 1 18 4 177 14 317
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 12 139 2 37 4 170 21 409
Aran 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 2 25
Bages 7 201 13 228 2 27 12 541 34 997
Baix Camp 6 388 5 85 1 15 7 299 19 787
Baix Ebre 2 45 3 48 0 0 6 216 11 309
Baix Empordà 1 16 5 69 2 31 6 222 14 338
Baix Llobregat 7 264 19 409 6 89 26 1,115 58 1,877
Baix Penedès 0 0 3 51 0 0 4 179 7 230
Barcelonès 29 939 84 1,379 18 533 92 3,746 223 6,597
Berguedà 1 60 2 12 0 0 2 120 5 192
Cerdanya 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 40 3 48
Conca de Barberà 0 0 2 19 0 0 2 57 4 76
Garraf 2 66 3 81 1 15 2 116 8 278
Garrigues 0 0 3 52 0 0 2 75 5 127
Garrotxa 1 22 3 36 2 26 3 124 9 208
Gironès 9 282 10 119 4 54 14 375 37 830
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Maresme 8 382 21 376 5 51 14 690 48 1,499
Moianès 0 0 2 17 0 0 1 24 3 41
Montsià 1 31 4 69 1 12 3 105 9 217
Noguera 1 34 3 31 0 0 2 90 6 155
Osona 3 113 5 138 1 12 5 206 14 469
Pallars Jussà 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 20 2 20
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 4 81 2 48 1 6 2 126 9 261
Pla de l'Estany 2 30 1 18 0 0 3 67 6 115
Priorat 0 0 1 7 0 0 1 25 2 32
Ribera d'Ebre 0 0 1 24 0 0 1 60 2 84
Ripollès 1 26 5 55 1 36 3 134 10 251
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 39 2 39
Segrià 10 455 22 421 5 170 15 782 52 1,828
Selva 2 91 7 115 1 10 9 360 19 576
Solsonès 0 0 1 21 0 0 2 51 3 72
Tarragonès 2 54 7 107 1 10 11 445 21 616
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 3 71 0 0 4 123 7 194
Vallès Occidental 13 690 28 396 3 91 26 1,229 70 2,406
Vallès Oriental 5 166 12 251 2 40 10 495 29 952
Catalonia 125 4,607 306 5,076 62 1,373 315 12,959 808 24,015
Metropolità 62 2,441 164 2,811 34 804 168 7,275 428 13,331
Comarques Gironines 17 511 34 457 12 247 41 1,428 104 2,643
Camp de Tarragona 8 442 18 264 2 25 25 926 53 1,657
Terres de l'Ebre 3 76 8 141 1 12 10 381 22 610
Ponent 15 570 33 623 6 176 27 1,235 81 2,604
Comarques Centrals 13 428 23 416 4 40 22 942 62 1,826
Alt Pirineu i Aran 0 0 3 35 0 0 8 130 11 165
Penedès 7 139 23 329 3 69 14 642 47 1,179
Barcelona 82 3,008 206 3,484 41 913 198 8,629 527 16,034
Girona 17 511 35 465 12 247 43 1,468 107 2,691
Lleida 15 570 36 671 6 176 35 1,376 92 2,793
Tarragona 11 518 29 456 3 37 39 1,486 82 2,497
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: June 9, 2021.

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.