Institutional forms of help for people with disability and their expectations. A research based on interviews conducted with adults with disabilities

People with disabilities constitute a significant group in a social environment that requires many different forms of assistance and support, especially of institutional character. In Poland, institutional assistance for adults with disabilities has a heterogeneous dimension and includes both financial and non-financial assistance. The multiplicity and variety of forms of help and support offered to adults with disabilities by different (state) institutions indicates that everyone with disabilities can benefit from the help that is most appropriate for them. On the basis of in-depth interviews conducted with adults with disabilities, we wanted to check to what extent the proposed forms of help and institutional support meet the expectations of people with different disabilities, especially in respect to their professional and adult life, how people with disabilities assess the activities of these institutions and how the professional situation of people with disabilities looks like. The conclusions and guidelines for the practice this paper contains were constructed based on the material from the interviews we carried out with adults with disabilities.