To What Extent Are Social Services in the Ostrava Region Available to Senior Citizens?

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

To What Extent Are Social Services in the Ostrava Region Available to Senior Citizens?

Original language description

OBJECTIVES: The presented paper focuses on availability of social services for older people in the Ostrava region with an aim to examine to what extent social services are available to senior citizens. THEORETICAL BASE: The theoretical background presents the current state of knowledge based on the study of professional literature and on the results of the research carried out in the studied areas. METHODS: The article presents the results obtained from the original quantitative research strategy that made use of structured interviews. OUTCOMES: Research, in addition to the results of different aspects of the availability of social services and senior?s awareness of social services, showed also e.g. that social services are too expensive for respondents, and that seniors are ?forced? to use care allowances mostly to cover medical costs rather than to cover social services. The paper in the end also analyses the causes of the underuse of social services by seniors. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: The findings contribute to knowledge in fields of availability of social services for the elderly in the Ostrava region, use of care allowance, and seniors? awareness of social services. This research can provide background for improvement in quality of social services for senior citizens in the Ostrava region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociální práce / Sociálna práca, Czech and Slovak Social Work

ISSN

1213-6204

e-ISSN

1805-885X

Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

18

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

53-66

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85042768280