Living in a group

There are people who are having a very serious kind of mental handicap which makes them totally depended of their assistants. These people live in a group home. Mostly these people have different kinds of handicaps.

In the Netherlands there are homes in which people need to share their bedrooms. They can’t choose their roommates and they haven’t much privacy. But it doesn’t occur as much any more. Everyone wants a bedroom of their own, mentally handicapped people too. A lot of homes are being rebuilt so that everyone get their own room.

Piece of art

In modern group homes different ways of living are possible. Most of the time clients live in groups of five or twelve inhabitants. Everyone has at least an own bed-sitting-room.

Organizations want to have a situation in which people are going to live in smaller groups in one quarter. From experience they can say that people living in a quarter make contacts in an easier way, and have more chats on the street. This is because they can go to a shop or hairdresser by themselves. And they prefer to live in a quarter instead of one house. They become more independent too.