Disabled people: back to square one, from dissipation to investment (1994)
There are four million Italians without full autonomy, about seven million pensions for absolute or relative invalidity, an expenditure commitment of the State of over 80,000 billion lire a year already in 1991, a set of payments, services, consumption, investments and benefits whose value cannot be estimated at less than 130,000 billion Lira. In extreme synthesis, these are the results of the research that Eurispes has carried out in collaboration with the National Association of Civilian Disabled Persons (ANMIC). That is proposed as a first contribution to define the boundaries of the characteristics of reality in continuous evolution and constant growth. The White Paper develops and emphasises the need to assess the social category of disabled people’s economic impact. The needs of people with disabilities go beyond simple state assistance. They are the needs and demands of citizens who consume, in many cases work and, where the architecture of our cities allows, move around and attempt to live a normal life. If adequately assessed, they are potentially and rightfully part of an economic circuit that can see them as active subjects of financial investment. The fundamental message of the research is: we need to work towards a change in culture and welfare intervention that moves from the concept of the disabled to that of holders of rights.
Index
Contents
Presentation
Introduction
From dissipation to investment
How many people are handicapped
Some accounts of handicap
Chapter 1. Between reality and simulation
The words to say it: thinking about “handicap”.
The alchemy of statistics: how many disabled people there are
Istat data
Civil Invalids
More numbers
Chapter 2. Pandora’s Box: the Welfare System, Associations and Disability
From institutionalization to integration, from assistance to autonomy: still, a way to go?
From “Providence” to participation, from charity to solidarity: the non-profit organisations
Between old and new: a list of associations in the disability sector
A survey of associations working in the disability sector: some considerations
Amnic, history of an itinerary
Chapter 3. Expenditure on disability
Definition of the field of investigation
Disability pensions
Development of Expenditure on Invalidity Pensions
Inail pensions
Inps pensions
Ministry of Interior pensions
Reasons for the expansion of disability pensions in Italy
The causes of the decline in disability pensions
Some proposals for changes to the disability pension system
Inail pensions
Inps pensions
Welfare pensions
Main points for reform of invalidity treatments in Italy
Invalidity pensions in the main EU countries
Germany
France
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
The technical aids market
The tariff nomenclature
The latest technologies
Rehabilitation centres
Policy perspectives for people with disabilities
Chapter 4. The message of the mass media and the evolution of the figure of the disabled person in the collective imagination
The image of the handicap before the affirmation of the media system
Information
The press: Zeno’s paradox
Television: between academics and charlatans
Fiction
The cinema: all-round figures in an opaque mirror
Advertising: between persuaders and the persuaded
Television fiction: the magical world of the handicapped superman
Conclusions
Bibliographical references
Chapter 5. Regulation and handicap
Introduction
The Current Situation
Protected categories
Standards of protection
At least ten causes of discrimination
Legislative appendices
National laws in chronological order
Appendix by typology
Regional legislative appendix
Regional legislative appendix by typology
Proposed legislation 1992-1993
EEC and Council of Europe provisions
List of national associations working in the field of disability
Associations’ files
Statistical appendix
Chapter 6. Interviews
Introduction to the interviews
The interview guide
Recurring themes
Cultural change
Law 104 of 1992
Workforce integration of people with disabilities
Chapter 7. The interviewees
Lino Armellin
Pietro Barbieri
Augusto Battaglia
Giuseppe Bicocchi
Roberto Bressanello
Gianfranco Cannata
Letizia Capra
Nina Daita
Tommaso Daniele
Lucia De Anna
Remo Del Genio
Lia Fabbri
Mario Filippi
Giovanni Francese
Lorenzo Gatto
Italo Giuffrè
Antonio Guidi
Alvido Lambrilli
Gabriel Levi
Giuseppe Niotta
Salvatore Nocera
Adriano Ossicini
Luca Pancalli
Susanna Rauber
Luigi Rodriguez
Constantine Rossi
Aida Russo
Giuliano Salvatori
Felice Scalvini
Maria Grazia Serpa
Luciano Travazza
Bruno Trescari
Renzo Tornatore
Raffaele Tortora
Antonio Vernole
Fabrizio Vescovo
Antonio Vindigni
Rosina Zandano