Long-term Deprivation of Liberty ties is advisable, similar to the ones that already exist for relevant matters, in ac­ cordance with the mission entrusted in the Spanish Constitution and the Public Prosecutor’s Office Organic Statute. Moreover, the General Council of Spanish Lawyers [Consejo General de la Aboga­ cia Española (CGAE)] was informed that it would be advisable to establish legal guidance services for persons with disabilities at the Bar Associations that did not yet have them, in order to provide the defendants in incapacity or committal proceedings with an adequate technical defense. In this respect, the General Council of Spanish Lawyers reported that the program to provide said services was launched within the framework of the collaboration agreement signed in 2004 by the ONCE Foundation and the Spanish Committee of representatives of persons with disabilities (abbreviated as CERMI in Spanish) with five «Bar As­ sociations» (Colegios de Abogados) with the objective of establishing within the legal aid structure a group of lawyers specialized in all topics that could affect the rights of persons with disabilities. Nonetheless, given the uneven development of the program in different Bar Associations and the lack of collaboration of the public administrations, at present the service is being fomented through training and awareness-raising actions for the members of the different Bar Associations. In turn, the Bar Association of Toledo has informed this Institution that it does not have resources to create a specific legal guidance service for persons with disabilities. A recommendation has 170. The inspection visit to the Assisted Living Residence (Residencia Social Asistida) «San José» (Toledo) was carried out over a period of three days. In addi­ tion to having experts from the Ombudsman Institution, it was deemed neces­ sary to have a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a general practitioner as external experts. During the inspection, the different aspects examined were, amongst others that are mentioned in this section, the admissions procedure, the center’s internal operations, the living conditions of the residents, the medical and psy­ chosocial care provided, the use of physical and pharmacological restraints, and the suitability of the staff in quantitative and qualitative terms. Likewise, inter­ views were held with the center’s management, staff, residents and relatives, and some of the center’s activities were viewed, such as meals, distribution of medica­ tion and «bedtime». The twenty residents who were individually interviewed were chosen on the basis of the following criteria: sex, age, diagnosis, cognitive impairment and the amount of time they had been there, together with certain behavior that was observed during the inspection. A psychiatrist, a 171. The «San José» Assisted Living Residence, which belongs to the Toledo Pro­ vincial Council, attends to persons with very different profiles who are distrib­ uted amongst 4 buildings: the first one is for persons with mild to severe mental disabilities; the second is for psychogeriatrics and assisted psychogeriatrics; the third is for persons with moderate to severe mental health problems; and the fourth is for assisted geriatrics and persons able to manage on their own. In addi- The residence attends to THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN been made to establish legal guidance services for persons with disabilities psychologist and a physician participated in the inspection visit as external experts elderly persons and persons with disabilities with many different profiles 133

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