Jan Hassink and Majken van Dijk (eds.
), Farming for Health, 57-72.
© 2006 Springer.
Printed in the Netherlands
CHAPTER 5
SOCIAL SERVICES AS SUPPLEMENTARY ON-FARM
ACTIVITY FOR MENTALLY DISABLED PEOPLE
KATJA VADNAL AND KATARINA KOŠMELJ
University of...
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Jan Hassink and Majken van Dijk (eds.
), Farming for Health, 57-72.
© 2006 Springer.
Printed in the Netherlands
CHAPTER 5
SOCIAL SERVICES AS SUPPLEMENTARY ON-FARM
ACTIVITY FOR MENTALLY DISABLED PEOPLE
KATJA VADNAL AND KATARINA KOŠMELJ
University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Dept.
of Agronomy, Jamnikarjeva
101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
E-mail: katja.
vadnal@bf.
uni-lj.
si and
katarina.
kosmelj@bf.
uni-lj.
si
Abstract.
The parents of mentally disabled people were interviewed with regard to their willingness to
include their offspring in the everyday life and the activities on farms, which would provide them with
social services (employment, care, nursing) in the form of supplementary on-farm activities.
Among 361
interviewed parents, 54 % expressed willingness to participate in the programme.
In order to assess the
association between ‘willingness’ and the relevant characteristics of the parents and their mentally
disabled offspring, the logistic regression models were app
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