Publication details
Deinstitutionalization of the social services for the elderly people in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of gerontological social work |
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| Web | http://www.journalgsw.uvt.ro/ |
| Field | Management and administrative |
| Keywords | elderly; social services; residential care; community care |
| Description | In this paper is described the social service system for the elderly people in the Czech Republic as well as the process of transformation in this field over the last years. The part of these changes, what will be presented, is the concept of deinstitutionalization the residential care. This concept was worked up in connection to main pillars of the transformation the care: implementation of the quality standards into social service providing and the setting of the social service on the local level (through the community planning method). In the another part of this text will be discussed the results of the research on community care service in the Czech Republic, the difficulties in providing this kind of support and actual potential of this service to cover the needs of the elderly people in the locality. |