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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 2020
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 13 147 2 37 4 178 22 425
Aran 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 2 25
Bages 7 201 13 228 2 27 12 491 34 947
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 9 298 20 433 6 113 26 1,115 61 1,959
Baix Penedès 0 0 3 51 0 0 5 187 8 238
Barcelonès 31 1,000 87 1,413 18 533 93 3,823 229 6,769
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 43 14 383 37 827
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Maresme 8 382 21 374 5 51 15 698 49 1,505
Moianès 0 0 2 17 0 0 1 24 3 41
Montsià 1 31 4 69 1 12 5 116 11 228
Noguera 1 34 3 31 0 0 2 90 6 155
Osona 3 113 6 161 2 20 5 206 16 500
Pallars Jussà 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 32 2 32
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 71 6 119
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 22 422 5 170 15 796 52 1,843
Selva 2 91 7 115 1 10 10 376 20 592
Solsonès 0 0 2 33 0 0 2 51 4 84
Tarragonès 2 55 7 107 1 10 11 445 21 617
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 1,235 70 2,412
Vallès Oriental 5 166 12 251 2 40 10 510 29 967
Catalonia 129 4,703 313 5,176 63 1,394 321 13,096 826 24,369
Metropolità 66 2,536 168 2,867 34 828 170 7,381 438 13,612
Comarques Gironines 17 511 34 457 12 236 42 1,456 105 2,660
Camp de Tarragona 8 443 18 264 2 25 25 926 53 1,658
Terres de l'Ebre 3 76 8 141 1 12 12 392 24 621
Ponent 15 570 33 624 6 176 27 1,249 81 2,619
Comarques Centrals 13 428 25 451 5 48 22 892 65 1,819
Alt Pirineu i Aran 0 0 3 35 0 0 8 142 11 177
Penedès 7 139 24 337 3 69 15 658 49 1,203
Barcelona 86 3,103 212 3,571 42 945 200 8,693 540 16,312
Girona 17 511 35 465 12 236 44 1,496 108 2,708
Lleida 15 570 37 684 6 176 35 1,402 93 2,832
Tarragona 11 519 29 456 3 37 42 1,505 85 2,517
Source: Ministry of Social Rights.
(..) 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.