Senatvė – kaip socialinės rizikos šaltinis ir jos prevencijos priemonės Lietuvoje

The number of aged people in Lithuania keeps increasing. According to the data of the Lithuanian Statistics Department, at the beginning of 1999 in Lithuania 18.2% of inhabitants were aged 60 years and more (in 1998 – 17.9%, 1997 – 17.6%, 1996 – 17.3%). The social group of aged and elderly people is identified with the group of subjects on old-age pension. The process of society becoming older rises a number of economical, psychological problems. The mean source of income of elderly people is an old-age pension. Data of studies show that at present even 42% of pensioners’ household economics consider themselves being poor or very poor. The psychological problems of elderly people are related with accommodation to the new period of life with a lot of free time, poorer financial resources, rather limited association and rarer meetings with acquaintances and former colleagues. Such artificial isolation of elderly people from the active part of society is the core reason for their psychological problems.
The demographic ageing of our society causes the growth of need for social services. It is necessary to create special programs of social services for this social group, estimating the specific character of services, costs, and to foresee the place of such services in the general structure of social services of the state. The quality of social services for elderly people depends first of all on the exactness and aptness of the assessment of need for services. Assessment of need is the main condition for the success in planning and delivering services. In the meanwhile in Lithuania only methodical assessment of need for home care services is prepared and has just come into use. Because of the lack of ratified and generally considered criteria of need assessment, the need for residential services is estimated quite subjectively. The lack...

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