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Where to Go With the Residential Home? –  Institutional Analysis and Organizational Development in Inpatient Care for the Disabled

Term: 02/2016 to 07/2017

Project management and coordination: AP Dr phil.  Hendrik Trescher

Implementing institutions: Institute for Special Education Goethe University Frankfurt, Lebenshilfe Frankfurt am Main e.V.

Associates/Partners/Contributors:  Teresa Hauck, MA, Michael Börner, MA

Research assistant(s):  Stefanie Schneider, BA

Financing: Lebenshilfe e.V.

Project description:

The design and organization of inpatient living arrangements represents a key challenge for disability assistance.  Together with Lebenshilfe Frankfurt e.V., residential home structures will be analyzed and all the results fed back in a practically oriented manner.  The aim here is to focus on the individual accommodation needs of the residents of inpatient facilities.  In addition, the perspectives of professionals who help to create the living space in the residential home are also recorded.  As a third perspective, objective requirements are included, ranging from structural conditions, to the conceptual requirements of the provider, to directives issued by cost units.  On the one hand, the project sees itself as a research enterprise in the field of basic research in special needs educational social science, but also, on the other, as a practical project, since housing concepts are to be reconceived and ultimately developed, in particular through the constant exchange of dialogue between all those involved.