The purpose of this essay was to investigate the view of what kind of role the personal assistant has in disabled people´s life and sexlife and how conceptions of a "normal" life and "to live like others" can be identified related to this. My research questions was: What does the expression "to live like others" mean to the organisations? What is the view in the organisations of the personal assistant´s role in the client´s life? What is the view in the organisations of the personal assistant´s role in the client´s sexlife? What is the view in the organisations of disabled people´s rights to get assisted help with sex? I chose to do semistructured interviews with different organisations related to disability and assistance and I analysed the interviews with theoretical aspects of social constructivism, the principle of normalization and the theory of SRV (Social Role Valorization), autonomy, individualism and models of action. My main conclusion were that the views of disabled people´s sexuality and the personal assistant´s role in disabled people´s sexlife were widely separate. However, almost all of the organisations were pointing out the autonomy of the individual and the importance of setting the limits.

In one of six garbage collectors area in Cairo, Esbet el Nakhl, there's a handicap school run by the Coptic church. We chose to study this school using observations and interviews. The purpose of our thesis has been to describe the school, the goals of the education and the educational forms. The questions we asked our selves before the trip to Cairo were; how does the school look like? What's a garbage collectors area? How do the teachers educate the children? How's the situation for the handicapped children?We spent six days of observations and interviews at the school gathering information for the thesis.

Uppsatsen redovisar en studie med utgångspunkt i frågeställningarna: Hur påverkar aktörer i serviceverksamheter inkludering och exkludering av kunder? Vad finns det för materiella och immateriella barriärer som påverkar tillgänglighet för faktiska och presumtiva kunder med funktionshinder? Syftet med undersökningen är att söka svar på vilka attityder och föreställningar som finns i verksamheter som ingår i servicebranschen och på vad sätt särskiljande eller exkluderande praktiker existerar för potentiella besökare med någon form av funktionshinder. Avsikten är även att undersöka huruvida aktörer i verksamheter har inverkan på materiella och immateriella barriärer som bidrar till att minska tillgängligheten. Syftet är således att undersöka särskiljande och exkluderande praktiker i servicemötet i förhållande till begreppen tillgänglighet och funktionshinder. För detta syfte har en kvalitativt präglad metod använts med intervjuer och frågeformulär.

Det här examensarbetet fokuseras på Downs syndrom. Jag valde att undersöka bland annat hur barn med syndromet blir bemötta av personal och andra barn när de börjar i förskolan och skolan/särskolan och hur personalen anpassar verksamheten för att barnet ska trivas. Vidare undersöktes hur pedagogerna i de olika verksamheterna går tillväga för att ha ett bra samarbete med hemmet. Jag har även tagit reda på vem det är som bestämmer om det Handikappade barnet ska gå integrerat i vanlig klass eller om han/hon börjar i särskolan. Jag använde mig av en kvalitativ metod. Fyra personer blev intervjuade med hjälp av penna och papper.

The aim of this study was to examine the aspect of power in the relationship between the personal assistant and the disabled person he or she works with (the user). The study was based on interviews with five personal assistants who worked for private companies that provided personal assistance. Seven themes were identified and discussed. These were: the users amount of control over the assistance given, the workplace environment, the working conditions, the organization of personal assistance by private companies, the assistants recourses and usage of power and the users participation in chores. To analyze these themes I used Foucault's theory of power and the perspective of Human Resource.

The main purpose of the thesis was to investigate if mothers of girls with Asperger syndrome/high-functioning autism experienced the same stressors regardless of society and culture or in which way the stressors might differ.A special purpose of the thesis was to investigate if the society by different types of support could relieve stress and eliminate or reduce stressors.The method of the thesis was to interview three mothers in Sweden and three in Spain, who all had a daughter, 10 - 15 years old, with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism.The result shows that mothers in both countries experienced equal level of stress, though the Swedish mothers got more support from the society. However, the stressors differed. For the Spanish mothers the main stressor was the girls´ problems at school. The main stressor for the Swedish mothers was how to find time to fulfil their different roles, e.g. mother, wife, housewife, professional, friend.

Sedan apoteksmarknaden avreglerades har många nya aktörer etablerats, både stora apotekskedjor och privatägda apotek. Alla slåss de om samma marknad, den marknad som Apoteket AB hade innan avregleringen. P/S Apotek är ett nyöppnat apotek på Sankt Eriksplan och deras uppdrag var att ta reda på vad kunderna efterfrågade hos ett apotek. P/S Apotek hade tänkt erbjuda två unika tjänster som inte finns på andra apotek, hälsokväll och specialistrådgivning.Syftet med denna uppsats är därmed:Att undersöka vad ett nyöppnat apotek skall erbjuda för produkter, service och tjänster samt vilka kunder de skall satsa på för att erhålla marknadsandelar.  Fyra olika metoder har använts för att kunna nå fram till målet med examensarbetet:benchmarking, dold observation, kvalitativa intervjuer och enkätmetodik.

The level of help and support given to elderly people over the age of 65 has been regulated by two separate laws; 1-the Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS) and 2- Act of Social Services (SoL). Recent changes in the legislation could cause local authorities to deal with these issues in different ways. The aim of this study was to examine and evaluate possible differences in the level of support for the elderly, dependant on which of the two laws was used in the decision process.The questions raised in this paper are· What are the major differences in the purposes of the two legislations?· How will the decisions be influenced dependant on what law is used? Do the decisionmakers identify the difference between the quality levels "good" and "fair"?· How is the process of care organised and managed within each of these legislations and how is the personnel used?· Are there differences in quality regarding freedom of choice, your own right to decide, influence, comprehensive view and continuity in the efforts given?· What development can you see in these fields of care.As a method I have used a case study involving four big cities in Scania. The most interesting and essential knowledge in the study was obtained from qualitative interviews with eleven decision-makers in the four communities.The result of this study indicates that there are more similarities than differences in the purposes of these laws.

The purpose of our study is to examine what risk factors can contribute to a child/youth with neuropsychiatric disorders developing an addiction to drugs. We also wanted to find out what protective factors can contribute not to develop an addiction. In order to find out these two different aspects we interviewed twelve professionals to get their view upon the matter. The professionals work within different sectors such as school, healthcare, social services and one of the interviewed is a member of an organization that specialises in neuropsychiatric disorders.When analysing our result of the interviews we used Bronnfenbrenner´s theory on the ecology of human development. What we found was that there are significant risk factors and protective factors on different levels of the child's environment.On the first level, the microsystem, interpersonal relations have an impact on the child's development.

I denna fallstudie undersöks och jämförs avfallshanteringen i två flerbostadsområden i Motala kommun. Syftet med fallstudien är att undersöka, jämföra samt analysera hushållens attityder och beteenden till att sortera ut sitt avfall i relation till den fysiska strukturen som omgärdar avfallshanteringen i respektive område- närhet till återvinningsrum/återvinningsstation, utformning av återvinningsrum/återvinningsstation samt servicegrad. Intervjuer har genomförts med åtta hushåll för att få fram hushållens attityder samt beteenden till sortering av avfall. Studien visar att samtliga hushåll var beredda att lägga tid och engagemang på avfallssorteringen. Vissa hushåll kände krav från hyresvärden till att sortera sitt avfall medan övriga hushåll sorterade ur miljösynpunkt.

This essay is about children who have psychological and social problems. An increase part of children and young people in Sweden describe this kind of difficulties. These problems are at the same time a concern for the school as well as the social welfare. The purpose in this essay is to explore if children with psychological and social problems have the same legal rights to education as other children. The main questions are to describe the legal rights in this area and explore how schools and social welfare cooperate in order to achieve better possibilities for the children.The facts take a legal aspect as a starting point.

The aim with our paper has been to get a picture of which factors one of the heterogeneous group that we've chosen of old persons, 75-90 years, in Scania, in south Sweden, have experienced to be of importance for their life quality today and what they wish to preserve of their actual life style when they eventually shall use the elderly care. Also how their individual life course has influenced their experience of the quality of life.We found this subject interesting as the group of old people in the society is constantly increasing and when the group becomes bigger, then greater demands will be put on the elderly care. We have proceeded from a standpoint that all people are unique individuals and that people become what they are from their life histories and from the choices they have made during their life. We have used the life course theory that says that one should see the individual in his/her wholeness and the whole life history of a person in order to understand him/her. We have also studied earlier research concerning the different determinants of the life quality.

Ca 51% av den svenska befolkningen engagerar sig i ideellt arbete. Ca 600 miljoner timmar ideellt arbete läggs ned varje år, eller ca 350 000 heltidsarbeten. Syftet med denna uppsats är att få en djupare förståelse och kunskap om män och kvinnors motiv till deras ideella arbete. För att erhålla detta har i studien använts en kvalitativ ansats. Uppsatsen är avgränsad till kvinnor och män som arbetar ideellt i Norrbotten, samt utför frivilligt arbete inom ideella föreningar.

Ca 51% av den svenska befolkningen engagerar sig i ideellt arbete. Ca 600 miljoner timmar ideellt arbete läggs ned varje år, eller ca 350 000 heltidsarbeten. Syftet med denna uppsats är att få en djupare förståelse och kunskap om män och kvinnors motiv till deras ideella arbete. För att erhålla detta har i studien använts en kvalitativ ansats. Uppsatsen är avgränsad till kvinnor och män som arbetar ideellt i Norrbotten, samt utför frivilligt arbete inom ideella föreningar.

The purpose of this study was to examine what social workers include in the term "parenting ability". More specifically the purpose was to investigate how social workers view the parenting ability among parents with an intellectual disability. Furthermore the aim was to examine what difficulties social workers come across in their work with families where one of the parents are intellectually disabled. The study was based on six interviews with social workers that specifically work with children under the age of 18, and occasionally come across parents with this type of disability. The interviews were analysed using Donald Winnicott's terms "good-enough-parenting", "holding" and "the holding environment".