Participation of adults with cognitive, physical, or psychiatric impairments in family of origin and intimate relationships: a grounded theory study

Table 1 Study sample (n = 23)

	Total
Gender
Female	12
Male	11
Age in years
30–35	10
36–40	3
41–45	3
46–50	5
51–53	2
Marital status
Unmarried	19
Married or in registered same-sex partnership	3
Divorced	1
Workplace
Primary labor market ^a	3
Reinsertion measure into primary labor market	1
Secondary labor market ^a	12
Disability insurance pension (without working)	5
Non distinctive	2
Type of impairment
Physical	6
Cognitive	11
Psychiatric	6
Housing
On their own	6
With a partner	3
On their own (with personal assistance)	2
Assisted living / residential care (external living unit)	6
Own apartment with relatives	1
With parents / in the family of origin	5
Canton
Basel-Land	2
The Grisons	2
Lucerne	6
Nidwalden	1
Obwalden	2
Schaffhausen	4
Solothurn	1
Thurgau	2
Zurich	3

^a The primary labor market is the regular labor market. In the secondary labor market, employees receive no wages or reduced regular wages, because they are temporarily or constantly unemployed. Specialized firms receive money to provide appropriate jobs. These secondary labor market programs aim, for example, at vocational integration. Or they provide a longer-term daily structure for people with very few employment opportunities in the primary labor market (e.g., people with severe disabilities)

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