Il budget di salute come strumento di superamento delle forme di segregazione

The aim of this paper is to discuss the efficacy of the welfare action commonly known as the “Personal Budget”, which stands for the development of reforms reorganizing the funds for social and health benefits, allocated directly to people with disabilities, allowing them to choose and pay for needed supports. The goal of this policy is to put people back in the center of the care process, releasing them from the passive role of “assistance receivers” in exchange for a pro-active role with broader decision-making margins. Achieving, therefore, the empowerment and the engagement of the person with disabilities, who is given full control over the structuring and quality of the supports to be received.