The scientific monograph is published within the project ‘Community-Based Social Service Centres as a Tool of Multilevel Partnership for Providing Long-Term Care in Slovakia’. The project is being implemented in 2020 by the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region and is supported by the European Commission in the framework of the request for proposals on social innovations and national reforms in the field of long-term care for the elderly. This project is a cooperation between: Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; Kristiania University Oslo, Norway; the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic; and the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic.