Abstract
The challenge for social work represents all issues concerning the process of senescence, especially in sheltered flats for people with learning disabilities. Many users of the service consider their sheltered flat as their home, they spend their productive age, ageing and lifespan there.
Is it really possible here to grow old, live with very low self-sufficiency or die in sheltered flats? What health, social and other services do this allow? How to tackle the issue of dying and bereavement in the context of cognitive impairment? What is the role of a social worker? This article summarizes the experience of the Czech Republic. As a part of the article there is a summary of foreign experience with these issues and giving the examples of good practice.