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    Institutionalized chaos instead of independent living. Forced modernization and assistant services in Poland
    (Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Szawarska, Dorota; Giermanowska, Ewa; Racław, Mariola
    Personal assistance for people with disabilities in Poland is not available as part of a comprehensive state policy. There is a lack of a national strategy for independent living and a plan for deinstitutionalisation of support services. A disabled person as an independent entity seems to be invisible to legislators, despite the postulates regarding »tailor-made« services in public discourse. Uncoordinated changes are taking place regarding support for people with disabilities, including assistance services. They are partly forced by Poland's ratification (2012) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, partly due to innovations of NGOs. Authors analyse the factors responsible for the current state of affairs in the context of theory of imposed modernization, emphasizing the superficiality of institutional changes. The limitations of the model of personal assistance services as services including disabled people in the mainstream of social life is also discussed.