Laws and guidelines Romania

GENERAL FRAMEWORK 

In Romania, the field of social and community assistance are relatively recent, with permanent adjustments that bring them to a European level. Since 2007, when Romania is an EU member state, these adjustments and improvements, both in terms of legislation and in terms of support through rights and services, have increased continuously. After the 1989 revolution and the reconfiguration of the social system into democracy, there was an extensive process of transformation and improvement throughout this social assistance system. This process has undergone a radical change in terms of social assistance, care and support provided to children and young people, under social and then European pressure, with Romania's  accession to the EU. After the extensive process of deinstitutionalization of social assistance provided to the age groups, there were areas for improving the support provided to adults with different types of disabilities, with problems related to disability, especially through the ability of these categories to organize and support and promote rights through civil society, NGO initiatives on state institutions. Due to the lack of financial resources that the Romanian state has faced and continues to face, which places it in the last places in the PIP at EU level, the institutions have little or no success in providing a minimum level of assistance to people in need.





The complicated road of paperwork to obtain few rights based on the disability file (a maximum amount of 300 euros for the most severe disability in Romania) is difficult, laborious, with many documents established by law, obtained from various sources and institutions, many stages, to which are added, during the evaluation process other and other medical tests or documents requested, sometimes even arbitrarily by the Evaluation Commission. This process becomes very difficult or impossible for those who are in need but do not have the resources to do so, instead they can be easily accessed for the purposes of circumventing the payment of social security contributions and corruption. In the case of seriously ill, non-displaceable patients, the cost-benefit ratio for obtaining these insignificant rights is clearly to the detriment of the patient and his relatives. If adults in difficulty are supported through social assistance within the Social Assistance. Directorates located at the level of local communities (Territorial Administrative Units), but with insufficient support and major integration problems, for the elderly category the problems are far from being solved. This process is difficult, and poverty is what burdens most of the elderly, whether healthy or in difficulty. Currently, in Romania, neither medical nor social systems are ready to meet the needs of these patients. There is no national strategy dedicated to diagnosing, treating and caring for these patients with dementia both in the community and in the institutional context. In the area of ​​social services, the elderly benefit from the provisions of the "Law on Social Assistance for the Elderly", which, although it includes references to mental disorders that may affect the ability of the elderly to cover their medical and social needs, does not clear reference to neuro-cognitive disorders and their problems. However, the law mentions the national grid for assessing the needs of the elderly as a basis for assessing the needs of the elderly in the event of total or partial loss of autonomy. This grid provides criteria for classifying in degrees of dependency and implicitly the rights and services to which these elderly people are entitled according to the classification.





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