LE «DIMISSIONI PROTETTE» PER PERSONE SENZA DIMORA A BOLOGNA. UN CASE STUDY SULL’INTEGRAZIONE SOCIO-SANITARIA PER LA POVERTÀ ESTREMA

In a clinical and societal background increasingly permeated with the importance of health and social care integration, the essay aims at studying its relevance in relation to two underrepresented issues: poverty and target size. As a matter of fact, usually integration is related to chronicity and elderly, while poverty is less analyzed in current literature, while, among the barriers, target size has not yet been considered like other key factors. The essay presents a case study carried out through 25 interviews to key-actors. The project analyzed, briefly named «assisted discharge», implemented in Bologna, is the result of a coordinated program among the local Municipality and the Social and Health Care District of the city and can be defined a best practice in the field of welfare policies. It is addressed to homeless when discharged by local hospitals, in order to guaranteeing them with a seamless cure in a safer place. As outcome, the research does not allow to acquire a clear result about size relevance, while contributing to stress the importance of shared purposes among operators and institutional levels and the relevance of the third sector.