This thesis deals with the security system care services and other related services, including informal care for seniors in the Czech Republic. The aim of the work is to evaluate, describe and offer a closer understanding of nursing as a basic social care service in connection with the principle of shared care in a natural home environment for seniors as the ideal form of care for the elderly at present and due to the demographic development in the future. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part covers three main topics: day care service system in the Czech Republic, seniors as a target group of caring and sharing and municipalities and their role in caring for the elderly. The practical part is devoted to the research, which focuses on the relationship of care services and communities from the perspective of potential service users, ie. the elderly. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods is used in the research and interprets the results of the survey conducted among the elderly in three senior clubs in Prague 17. The research complements the findings mentioned in the theoretical part.

This study investigates the relationship between community psychology and social policies, seeking to determine which contextual conditions, institutional and interaction of actors help to explain the form and structure of the technical field of the psychologists that work in social intervention in the General Social or Community Services as part of the Spanish Social Services Systems. As a methodological framework, we use the Strauss & Corbin (2002) approach known as Grounded Theory, and also the Coller (2000) multidimensional multiple cases. We study five General Social Services, trough twenty-four interviews to professionals, members and managers of these services, town hall and autonomous community managers and external agents, representatives of professional associations and academics concerned with the issue. As a result, we observe that the integration process of the psychologists that work with social interventions and the components of their field are explained in the context of three major sets of conditions: in first place, the institutional conditions arising from the legal-regulatory bodies and their impact on the technical, management and administration framework. Second, the actor’s interaction processes around reflection dynamics, training and definition of perspectives and frameworks of intervention, all of them developed in negotiations and alliances between the experts, politicians, leaders of the professional associations and academics. And finally, the conditions of the amount and type of problems, the multidimensionality and complexity that are involved in social problems which demand attention and that affect the technical requirements of response / En aquest estudi s’investiga la relació entre la psicologia comunitària i les polítiques socials, buscant determinar quines condicions contextuals, institucionals i de interacció dels actors permeten explicar la forma i estructuració del camp tècnic dels psicòlegs de la intervenció social en els Serveis Socials Generals o Comunitaris que formen part dels Sistemes de Serveis Socials espanyols. Com marc metodològic s’utilitza la proposta de Strauss & Corbin (2002), coneguda com Grounded Theory, i l’estudi de casos múltiples multidimensional de Coller (2000). S’estudien aquí cinc Serveis Socials Generals, mitjançant entrevistes a vint-i-quatre professionals, membres i encarregats dels equips d’aquests serveis, directius a nivells d’ajuntament i comunitat autònoma i agents externs, representants de col•legis professionals i acadèmics relacionats amb la temàtica. Com resultat, s’observa que el procés de inserció dels psicòlegs de la intervenció social i els components del seu camp tècnic s’expliquen en el context de tres conjunts de condicions principals: en primer lloc, las condicions institucionals que sorgeixen dels cossos normatiu-legals i que incideixen sobre el marc tècnic i de gestió i administració. En segon terme, els processos de interacció d’actors al voltant de dinàmiques de reflexió, formació i definició de perspectives i enfocaments de intervenció, desenvolupades en negociacions i aliances entre tècnics, polítics, dirigents gremials i acadèmics. I, finalment, les condicions que intervenen segons la quantitat, tipus de problemàtiques, multidimensionalitat i complexitat que presenten els problemes socials pels quals es demana atenció, que repercuteixen en les exigències tècniques de resposta