DUŠAN Life in the Community reality to persons with complex needs.
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“At the end of the hallway facing the door stood a man bent down to the floor, his face expressionless, with a diaper for incontinence and torn T-shirt. He is blind,deaf, mute and autistic.
– He immediately takes his clothes off, tears them in strips and hangs them around his hands. See! – said the caretaker at the men's department of the severe mental retardation institution Stančić, showing rolls of fabric around the young man's wrist
– It is the only fabric that he can bare on himself, he added, as the young man retreated to the bed in his tiny room.”
http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/nasa-bolesna-djeca-drugdje-nece-prezivjeti-ne-selite-ih-iz-stancica-490101Published: 22.12.2012
• Intellectual disability, blind, deaf, mute, has difficulties moving
• Does not communicate• Placed in an institution when he was
around 9 years old• No contact with the family in the past 4
years
Life in an institution - 30 years
• Failed attempts on inclusion in the rehabilitation treatment within the institution
• Totally dependent on others• Functions at the level of a 6-month-old child• For his safety and the safety of others sleeps
and spends most of the time in an isolation cell
• Tears and takes off clothes• Sometimes aggressive, noncompliant• Yells• Rarely interacts with others• Sleeps with a blanket over his head• Tears and throws everything away• Likes to be out in the sun• Loves showering
Life in the community - 10 months
In late May 2014, after 30 years of living in an institution, Dušan moved into an apartment.
Organised housing program
• Custom ground floor apartment in a family house
• 1 roomate
• 24/7 support provided by an assistant in the
apartment
• Personal assistant 8 hours a day
• Occupational Therapist / Advocate
• Person centered active support methodology
Dušan today...
• Expanding his experiences on a daily basis
• Shows progress in motor skills
• We recognize the beginnings of communication
• Walking short distances around the neighborhood (instead of using a wheelchair)
• Increased involment in activities
• Minimum of undesirable behaviors