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Social services facilites for disabled people. By type of facility. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Social services facilites for disabled people. Centres and places. By type of facility. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2024
Residential centres Residential homes Specialised care centres Occupational centres Total
Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places Centres Places
Alt Camp 0 0 3 54 0 0 4 100 7 154
Alt Empordà 1 44 4 51 2 90 3 167 10 352
Alt Penedès 4 70 6 70 1 18 6 209 17 367
Alt Urgell 0 0 2 27 0 0 2 45 4 72
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 3 63 13 153 2 37 5 195 23 448
Aran 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 2 25
Bages 9 233 13 228 2 27 14 561 38 1,049
Baix Camp 6 388 5 85 1 15 9 343 21 831
Baix Ebre 2 60 4 62 0 0 7 218 13 340
Baix Empordà 1 16 5 69 2 31 6 227 14 343
Baix Llobregat 9 298 22 450 6 115 26 1,111 63 1,974
Baix Penedès 0 0 3 51 0 0 4 207 7 258
Barcelonès 32 978 80 1,425 20 489 91 3,723 223 6,615
Berguedà 1 60 3 36 0 0 2 120 6 216
Cerdanya 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 40 3 48
Conca de Barberà 0 0 2 25 0 0 2 66 4 91
Garraf 2 70 3 81 1 15 2 116 8 282
Garrigues 0 0 3 52 0 0 2 75 5 127
Garrotxa 1 22 3 36 2 26 3 124 9 208
Gironès 11 321 11 126 4 42 12 361 38 850
Lluçanès 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Maresme 7 369 22 389 4 43 16 781 49 1,582
Moianès 0 0 2 17 0 0 2 44 4 61
Montsià 1 31 4 73 1 12 3 146 9 262
Noguera 1 34 3 33 0 0 2 95 6 162
Osona 3 115 7 173 2 20 13 248 25 556
Pallars Jussà 0 0 1 6 0 0 2 32 3 38
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 4 81 2 48 1 6 2 136 9 271
Pla de l'Estany 3 40 1 18 0 0 3 76 7 134
Priorat 0 0 1 16 0 0 2 25 3 41
Ribera d'Ebre 0 0 1 24 0 0 1 60 2 84
Ripollès 1 26 4 47 1 36 3 134 9 243
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 54 4 54
Segrià 10 455 24 452 5 170 17 963 56 2,040
Selva 3 111 9 130 2 22 10 376 24 639
Solsonès 0 0 3 43 0 0 2 59 5 102
Tarragonès 2 55 8 132 1 10 12 473 23 670
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 4 78 0 0 6 185 10 263
Vallès Occidental 13 690 28 392 3 91 28 1,336 72 2,509
Vallès Oriental 5 166 13 275 2 42 14 620 34 1,103
Catalonia 135 4,796 323 5,435 65 1,357 346 13,876 869 25,464
Metropolità 66 2,501 165 2,931 35 780 175 7,571 441 13,783
Comarques Gironines 21 580 37 477 13 247 40 1,465 111 2,769
Camp de Tarragona 8 443 19 312 2 25 29 1,007 58 1,787
Terres de l'Ebre 3 91 9 159 1 12 11 424 24 686
Ponent 15 570 36 663 6 176 33 1,508 90 2,917
Comarques Centrals 15 462 28 497 5 48 33 1,032 81 2,039
Alt Pirineu i Aran 0 0 4 41 0 0 8 142 12 183
Penedès 7 149 25 355 3 69 17 727 52 1,300
Barcelona 88 3,112 212 3,689 43 897 219 9,064 562 16,762
Girona 21 580 38 485 13 247 42 1,505 114 2,817
Lleida 15 570 42 739 6 176 41 1,669 104 3,154
Tarragona 11 534 31 522 3 37 44 1,638 89 2,731
Source: Departament de Drets Socials i Inclusió.

Last update: March 26, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Specialised care centre
Centre that offers daytime placement and care services for people with serious disabilities that, due to their high level of affectation, need care and support for their day to day activities and when this service cannot be provided by any other daily service forming part of the general network of the education system.
Occupational centre
Centre offering services that pertain to two modalities [1]: occupational therapy service and occupational labour insertion therapy. These services are addressed at facilitating their beneficiaries with daytime care of a rehabilitation nature in order for, in accordance with each individual's capacities, them to become as integrated in society as possible. The beneficiaries are disabled people of a working age that have not managed to achieve integration in the employment environment.
Residential centre
Centre that offers residential placement services of a temporary or permanent nature that serve as replacements for the home, and are equipped to host people with a high level of affectation that need care and support in their daily activities, and that for family or social reasons, or due to geographical location, are unable to live in their own homes, such that it is essential for them to be admitted temporarily or permanently into a centre of such characteristics.
Physical disability
It is divided into two types: Motor: Physical disability suffering people who have affected the ability to move for various reasons (birth defects, accidents, brain injury...). Non-motor: Physical disability with people who for organic causes cannot develop a full life (fatigue, coronary heart disease, kidney disease, lung disease...).
Intellectual disability
Disability presented by persons who, for both congenital and acquired causes, have mental deficiencies. This group is characterized by intellectual function below average and ease of understanding and information reduced. This category does not include people with mental illness.
Residential home
Residence offering services that pertain to two modalities: residences with support service and residential home. The former are developed in the physical structure of an ordinary home that constitutes the usual residence of the people that live in it and are aimed at disabled people that have sufficient capacity and autonomy to organise their own everyday activities, but that as a result of their disability, need specialist, personal or community support. The latter are residential placement services, of a temporary or permanent nature, which substitute the home and are developed within an establishment and are aimed at disabled people that need permanent or temporary supervision and/or assistance in order for them to cope with everyday activities.
Specialised care social service
Level of specific action aimed at the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, support and rehabilitation of the social deficits of people belonging to collectives or segments of the population due to the singularity of their needs. These services are provided by specialised professionals and depending on different cases, may use community, daytime or residential services along with other adequate resources for said purpose.

Methodological aspects

The Catalan social services system is the coordinated set of personal services, facilities, activities, economic benefits and of prevention, care and social promotion in Catalonia, which aims to ensure the participation of all citizens in the benefits of social life. Is specifically designed for individuals, families or groups who, by having difficulties in the development and integration into society, lack of personal autonomy, physical, mental or sensory disabilities, family problems or suffer social marginalization, are creditors of collective and caring effort.

The system is divided functionally into primary care social services and social services of specialized care, and is organized territorially in key areas of social services, sectors of county, regional and territorial areas of Catalonia, and in the following areas of action: care for family, childhood and adolescence; care for people with disabilities, old age care and treatment of drug addicts.

Location services can be temporary or permanent.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.