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Each of us think about our retirement, and ask ourselves the question: what is it? Will we feel loved, cared of, and not left in the hands of fate? At this point, health care and social services improvement is of great importance for the aforementioned aspects. One of the examples of improvement is the conducted international project Improving Access to Community-based Services for Older People Living at Home (IACS).The goal of the present paper is to analyze community's health care and social services facilities availability for older people. To accomplish aims and tasks that were set, corresponding theoretical analysis methods were selected: analysis of scientific literature, method of logical analysis, comparative method of theoretical analysis. To collect empirical data for Kaunas, qualitative study using semi-structured focus group interview method was performed. In order to raise study to an international level in a quasi-social experiment way and to compare community service experiences, qualitative data were obtained from other countries, i.e. Austria and Poland. The paper introduced the concept of social exclusion and the ways to reduce it the European Union and Lithuania contexts. Strong relationship between social exclusion, aging policy, health and social services available older people was also articulated.Social exclusion policy is formed by social policy models. In this sense, Lithuanian and Swedish social policy models were arbitrarily selected and examined. Health and social services systems that derive from social policy models were examined as well. This time, cases of countries that participate in IACS study were selected.This paper also presented the main IACS project approach: social experiment and its conditions in countries that participate in the project, and project strategies. Meanwhile, strategies chosen by Lithuania were examined in more detail using the comparative method of analysis.Further in the paper following concept definitions were introduced: original access to health care, social services and how older people are related to them. Health care access in Lithuania, quality of social services and methods to improve then were analyzed and assessed. Social services provision at home in Kaunas was discussed. Both the qualitative and the quantitative data were examined for IACS project strategies implementation assessment. This led to draw the relevant insights about the practical component of the project.

Each of us think about our retirement, and ask ourselves the question: what is it? Will we feel loved, cared of, and not left in the hands of fate? At this point, health care and social services improvement is of great importance for the aforementioned aspects. One of the examples of improvement is the conducted international project Improving Access to Community-based Services for Older People Living at Home (IACS).The goal of the present paper is to analyze community's health care and social services facilities availability for older people. To accomplish aims and tasks that were set, corresponding theoretical analysis methods were selected: analysis of scientific literature, method of logical analysis, comparative method of theoretical analysis. To collect empirical data for Kaunas, qualitative study using semi-structured focus group interview method was performed. In order to raise study to an international level in a quasi-social experiment way and to compare community service experiences, qualitative data were obtained from other countries, i.e. Austria and Poland. The paper introduced the concept of social exclusion and the ways to reduce it the European Union and Lithuania contexts. Strong relationship between social exclusion, aging policy, health and social services available older people was also articulated.Social exclusion policy is formed by social policy models. In this sense, Lithuanian and Swedish social policy models were arbitrarily selected and examined. Health and social services systems that derive from social policy models were examined as well. This time, cases of countries that participate in IACS study were selected.This paper also presented the main IACS project approach: social experiment and its conditions in countries that participate in the project, and project strategies. Meanwhile, strategies chosen by Lithuania were examined in more detail using the comparative method of analysis.Further in the paper following concept definitions were introduced: original access to health care, social services and how older people are related to them. Health care access in Lithuania, quality of social services and methods to improve then were analyzed and assessed. Social services provision at home in Kaunas was discussed. Both the qualitative and the quantitative data were examined for IACS project strategies implementation assessment. This led to draw the relevant insights about the practical component of the project.

Each of us think about our retirement, and ask ourselves the question: what is it? Will we feel loved, cared of, and not left in the hands of fate? At this point, health care and social services improvement is of great importance for the aforementioned aspects. One of the examples of improvement is the conducted international project Improving Access to Community-based Services for Older People Living at Home (IACS).The goal of the present paper is to analyze community's health care and social services facilities availability for older people. To accomplish aims and tasks that were set, corresponding theoretical analysis methods were selected: analysis of scientific literature, method of logical analysis, comparative method of theoretical analysis. To collect empirical data for Kaunas, qualitative study using semi-structured focus group interview method was performed. In order to raise study to an international level in a quasi-social experiment way and to compare community service experiences, qualitative data were obtained from other countries, i.e. Austria and Poland. The paper introduced the concept of social exclusion and the ways to reduce it the European Union and Lithuania contexts. Strong relationship between social exclusion, aging policy, health and social services available older people was also articulated.Social exclusion policy is formed by social policy models. In this sense, Lithuanian and Swedish social policy models were arbitrarily selected and examined. Health and social services systems that derive from social policy models were examined as well. This time, cases of countries that participate in IACS study were selected.This paper also presented the main IACS project approach: social experiment and its conditions in countries that participate in the project, and project strategies. Meanwhile, strategies chosen by Lithuania were examined in more detail using the comparative method of analysis.Further in the paper following concept definitions were introduced: original access to health care, social services and how older people are related to them. Health care access in Lithuania, quality of social services and methods to improve then were analyzed and assessed. Social services provision at home in Kaunas was discussed. Both the qualitative and the quantitative data were examined for IACS project strategies implementation assessment. This led to draw the relevant insights about the practical component of the project.