La asistencia personal en España. Perspectiva de sus protagonistas: personas beneficiarias, responsables de la asistencia personal de las entidades proveedoras y asistentes personales.

Abstract

The personal assistance is a human resource that puts into practice the right to an independent life of people with disabilities, an internationally recognized right. Although it has a long history in the United States and in some countries of Europe such as Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom, in our country it has been recently established. In recent years, personal assistance has aroused the interest of some public administrations and the associative world of disability, implementing different projects, but in our country, there is still weak academic development. The aim of this research is to know and analyse the current situation of this resource in Spain. To this end, the characteristics and opinions of the beneficiaries, the personal assistants and the responsibles for the personal assistance of the provider entities have been studied. A mixed methodology has been used for a better understanding of the researched issue. The main results obtained show the insufficient information on personal assistance, the limited access to this resource and the labour precariousness in the personal assistant profession.