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Informal carers in Czech social law
Hemerová, Lucie ; Koldinská, Kristina (advisor) ; Matějka Řehořová, Lucie (referee)
Informal carers in Czech social law Abstract Majority of long-term care for elderly persons is provided by informal carers, i.e. by relatives of other close persons. Despite informal care has significant value either for economy and society, it is omitted by the legislator over a long period. Therefore, the objective of this diploma thesis is to map the legislation affecting the situation of informal carers, to analyse it and to propose changes resulting from confronting the legislation with the actual situation of informal carers. This thesis is structured into six chapters. The purpose of first chapter is to present basic background which briefly describes the most important social and demographic phenomena accelerating the need to address legal status of informal carers and in perspective of which the relevant legislation should be analysed. In particular, such phenomena are population ageing, gender equality, financing of social welfare systems and the situation of informal carers on labour market. In the second chapter, given the topic of this thesis, the social law is defined and areas of law affecting informal carers the most are described in more detail, i.e. social welfare law and labour law. Third, fourth and fifth chapters relevant legislation is described. Chapter three is devoted to...
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