Social services for the elderly living in the family

1 Annotation DRVOTOVÁ, Petra. Social services for the elderly living in the family. Praha, 2016. Diploma thesis. Charles University, Hussite theological faculty. Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Beáta Krahulcová, CSc. The diploma thesis deals with a topic of social services for seniors living in families. The thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical part. Both of them describe seniors as clients of social work with focus on home care. Theoretical part elaborates on term of age, its symptoms and specific needs of elderly people. Social work with seniors and risks connected with such a matter are described as well. The first part focuses also on interconnection between social and health care and evaluation of self-sufficiency of elderly. Last two chapters describe home and institutional care and existing social services for seniors according to the law about social services (Act no. 108/2006) Empirical part of the thesis examines initiatives leading seniors in the region of Ústí nad Labem to choose home or institutional care. Qualitative research methods were used to complete empirical part. Respondents of the research were seniors in age of 65 or more, living in Ústí nad Labem region. Results were obtained and analyzed with use of semi structured questionnaire