Three years of cohousing to Piacenza: at the Teatro dei Filodrammatici, the conference “Co-housing: good practices and quality of life” attempted to take stock of the situation on the state of the art of supported living: “There is still a lot to do – he comments Corrado Cappa, director of the complex psychiatry liaison social inclusion operational unit of the ASL – We need to overcome the idea of forced places of coexistence as therapeutic communities can be for a long time, which instead should be intended for specific and short-term rehabilitation interventions duration of six months or one year”.
In our province, at the moment, there are around thirty users with serious mental disorders, and 25 people with autism who are experiencing supported living: “The people we deal with have accumulated various fragilities in their history but they should not be considered as people to be cared for separately, but as individuals in a network. The first to understand it was Basaglia with the closure of the mental hospitals: people with mental fragility today are an extended population that are part of the social fabric, so for a society to define itself as civilized it must fully consider their inclusion in society and not their exclusion. in secluded places. Unfortunately today the tendency is to stigmatize: it is sufficient to say that a person has suffered from a schizophrenic psychosis or had a period of substance addiction to say that he or she functions less. This is a concept that must be disproved: those who have had these types of problems can work as hard as others, often even better. A change of vision and commitment on the part of society is therefore necessary.”
