Elderly persons with intellectual disabilities living outside the family The quality of life and the role of social service providers

This thesis has been dedicated to the issues of aging of people with intellectual disabilities, in particular to the role of social services in this field. In Chapters 1 to 3, the author's focus will be on the aging of the society in general, further on the specific items concerning aging of people with intellectual disabilities, which are related to the quality of their life, furthermore, he will briefly describe the functioning of social services in the Czech Republic. In Chapters 4 to 8, he will evaluate and summarize the survey carried out on the basis of a questionnaire. The goal of this survy is to evoke discussion concerning the researched issue, to gain the opinions of providers of social services on the given questions. It should also give data about the preparedness of social institutions for the population growth of aging people with intellectual disabilities. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org