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RESEARCH PAPER
Exploring the content of blindness rehabilitation programs in Lithuania: models and approaches
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Public Administration, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
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Public Administration and Political Sciences, Klaipeda University, Lithuania
Submission date: 2023-07-24
Final revision date: 2023-12-13
Acceptance date: 2023-12-18
Online publication date: 2024-09-13
Publication date: 2024-09-13
Corresponding author
Jaroslav Dvorak
Public Administration and Political Sciences, Klaipeda University, S.Neries 5, 105-3, 92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Public Administration and Political Sciences, Klaipeda University, S.Neries 5, 105-3, 92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2024;66(3):1-22
KEYWORDS
visual impairmentsocial rehabilitationblind personblidness rehabilitation programnon-governemntal organizations
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
The field of research on blind and visually impaired services is broad, diverse, and dominated by empirical and interdisciplinary research. This is determined by the object under study, which includes a whole range of services, starting with social services and ending with personal health. On the other hand, the achievements of ophthalmologists in this field (compared to scientists in other fields) are significantly higher. However, it is noticeable in academic studies that NGOs must be professional and ready to provide more complex social services (research reveals that NGOs provide these services to the blind and partially sighted in about half of the world's countries). This article aims to conceptualize the social rehabilitation policy, legal regulation and models of the blind and visually impaired in Lithuania. Scientific and expert literature analysis, semi-structured interviews and case studies are used to achieve the goal. The current research found out that a gradual development of services is necessary to increase the availability and effectiveness of rehabilitation services for blind and partially sighted persons. It is necessary to ensure the expansion of the service system to achieve the interoperability of health and social services. Systematic monitoring and evaluation become important to ensure the quality of such services.
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