The PhD thesis "A senior-volunteer in social work" concerns senior volunteering in all fields of social work and it also clarifies the impact on the senior volunteers' living world. The theoretical part deals with a complex view of seniors' ageing with its leading male/female senior citizen representatives and also deals with the quality of seniors' living conditions in the modern society. Furthermore it follows up perspective of the senior volunteer in the current senior generation with its specify, chances, opportunities and difficulties of senior volunteering work, integration of senior volunteers into social work and also produce real examples of senior volunteering in social work through many different institutions in the Czech republic. According to foreign sources of information both in some European and non-European countries Japan, detailed compiled examples of senior volunteering are adapted. The second part of the PhD thesis is processed in the form of a research survey, which aimed to map the work of senior volunteers in social services, its benefits, risks and barriers based on a two-phase research survey. The opinion of the employees of the organization that provides social services for senior volunteering and organizations without experience with senior volunteering, the method of..
