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The aim of the article was to make an attempt of conducting numerical analysis of residential home care for elderly people. The results of the research indicates that infrastructure of institutional social care in Poland is poorly developed. Only 7.9 places in residential cares fall on every thousand of disabled elderly people. It also presents an attempt of evaluating the current state of institutional social care for the elderly in Poland. It also includes the prospects for development and recommendations concerning organization and financing of the discussed system