ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description of demographic developments and population ageing in the Czech Republic in recent years. It describes some important and yet underestimated phenomena and examines the systems of health and social services for seniors and their recent changes. The chapter describes some of the main problems of care provision to older persons in the Czech Republic, care in the family, and also formal health and social care. The chapter concludes that despite some improvements in Czech society in recent years there are still many remaining gaps and problems both in the attitude towards seniors as well as the services for them in the Czech Republic. The segregation and isolation of the disabled and seniors was a very peculiar feature of the socialist social care system. Therefore some members suggested a recommendation dealing with the media image of ageing to the board of the Czech Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
