social services, aging population, market, pseudo-social services, unregistered services, the Act on Social Services

This text deals with an unexplored topic namely the issue of providing senior outreach services without registration. Social services can be provided only by the Czech Republic under Act no. 108/2006 Coll., On social services, exclusively by registered providers. At present, however, we encounter the fact that social service providers also perform without any registration, which is not in accordance with the law. The aging population and the increasing proportion of elderly in the population means greater demands onproviding social services. The growing demand on senior outreach services and the lack of registered providers creates space for business on the open market, where it can be a competitive advantage. In this case, however,it means the creation of services without registration, which can not provide social services and are therefore illegal in the Czech system. Currently, there are two options of providing these services. The first option is a service provider, who operates as an individual with a trade licence, but has no registration. The other option is to provide services without a trade licence and without registration, ie. ,,Black ". The aim of the project is to understand the mechanisms of operation of these services and the context of their origin from both users´and providers´ perspective.