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In my bachelor study I wanted to find in what ways we can support the social life mentally disabled adults. The ways of support I concentrate are services provided by the disability services and what challenges might appear in them. In this literature review I also examined the use of these disability services. To find the answers to these questions I utilized the literature review method. The specific question are: 1. What kind of services are available to mentally disabled people and on what grounds are those services given? 2. What challenges might appear when supporting the social life mentally disabled adults? Since the purpose of the disability politics is to guarantee that every one gets the services they need my assumption is that all of categories I inculded in this review are used in a way that supports the social life of mentally disabled adults. The goverments disablity report (2006) says the following about the rights of the disabled ” disabled people have the right to equality, participation and the right to have the services they require”. The literature used in this literature review was found from the Helmet database and from the Helka database and from the google scholar search engine using headwords mental disability, disability services, support person operation,mental healt, social life and social relationships . Some of the used literature was course literature. I also utilized publications from the National institute for heath and welfare and Valvira. Parts of the material is from pro seminar studies, bachelor studies and master’s thesis’s. As a supplementary material I included interviews I conducted. These interviews consists from four different iterviews from a support person, physiotherapist, day activity center counselor and disability housing counselor. This literature review and my interviews gave hints about the fact that disabled people encounter many different challenges in their lives and disability servises and the professionals are trying to solve the challenges