ABSTRACT
Undoubtedly the person living in a wheelchair needs the driveway to the building, the lift or a wider passage. This form of assistance is most often sufficient, since these individuals are undergoing difficult and laborious process of rehabilitation in
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Disability as a global phenomenon
The increasing number of people that face disability is very often perceived as an extremely challenging and a problematic issue in various aspects of everyday existence, both in social and economic dimensions. Health is an extensive phenomenon containing physical health, emotional well-being and a social cohesion of a human unit (Stokols 2001). That approach can be referred to as a social model because it perceives human health from the broader perspective and challenges all the market participants to look not only at the signs of disease, illness and impairment, but also to examine the individual’s overall quality of life and subjective level of well-being (Kirenko 2006, Odette et al. 2003). So the main stress is put on providing necessary services in order to minimize all the barriers to full participation in all aspects of everyday life (Aitchison 2003, Shaw & Coles 2003). Therefore the dilemma of disability is revised and defined as an inadequate support services to the specific needs of disabled people. Architectural, sensory, cognitive and economic barriers and the strong tendency for people to generalize and be discriminatory against people with impairments are also crucial in the described model (Shelton & Tucker 2005). However, disability is a multifaceted reality and is not only about using wheelchair, though such an image is created in contemporary media (Fulcher 2016).
