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Current life of "superwomen" after primary family breakup
Hanáková, Šárka ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava (referee)
This thesis is dedicated to women who were called "the super women" during the communist era. Their mission was to combine their profession with taking care of their children alongside of being a housewife. Even though the traditional model of the men supporting the whole family changed to more democratic model with the both man and woman supporting the family, the housekeeping and taking care of children still stayed the wive's responsibility. In the period of communism, women were "double burdened". They dedicated their lives for their families and the free time they had, which was less then what men had, mostly corresponded with the interests of children and the whole family. In this thesis I focus on how these women live nowadays. They have already retired and after losing their partner they now live alone. I also focus on how they deal with this different life situation and changes in their social roles. I work with the theoretical approaches of emancipated femininity and active aging as a way to cope with changes in social status. I chose the qualitative approach as a research method. It is implemented in this diploma thesis by analyzing thorough interviews with widowed seniors.
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European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012 in Czech Republic and Germany
Konečná, Sabina ; Hejzlarová, Eva (advisor) ; Kotrusová, Miriam (referee)
The aim of thesis European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012 in Czech Republic and Germany is to describe and compare the approach of these two countries to the said initiative of the European Union. The society increasingly has to deal with the effects of demographic aging, which affects not only the seniors, but also other members of the population. It affects both the economy and life in larger or smaller communities. International organizations devote a lot of attention to this issue. The European Union is not an exception. It initiates various actions in order to accomplish set targets for member countries. One of the most prominent was the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012. Author focuses on the comparison of positions between the two neighboring countries, ie. mainly to set out specific objectives and measures, which would help these goals were fulfilled, all in accordance with the European Union. It reveals not only differences which may be between the Czech Republic and Germany in this regard to find, but also some common elements. Part of this work is the description of the impact of Europeanization, which has recently been talking more and more often in the context of the European integration process.
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Image of old age and elderly care Institutions. Representation in daily newspaper Blesk
Stehlíková, Zuzana ; Šmídová, Olga (advisor) ; Trusinová, Romana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the representation and categorisation of old age and elderly care and their changes in media discourse of daily newspaper Blesk. Theory focuses on definitions of elderly and description of seniors and practices of elderly care in the Czech Republic. It describes changes of old age discourse in connection with the development of social policy and expert knowledge. It describes the concepts of representation and categorisation and their possible impacts in the form of stigmatisation, stereotyping and ageism. It discusses media as resources of symbolic power, ideology and discourse and sets out media representation of elderly. Related empirical part is based on qualitative discourse analysis of articles from Blesk in years 2007 and 2011. It discusses the outcomes with respect to changes of discourse and representation, stereotypes and active old age. It distinguishes three types of senior representation - like normal, stigmatized and active. Thematic distribution and stigmatisation of elderly constructs symbolic subordination of elderly as a population category. Care is described only rarely and isn't offered as the solution of the elderly's frailty.
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"Neither young, nor old" - A Case Study of Active Ageing in a Cultural and Educational Senior Center in Prague
Nováková, Pavla ; Ezzeddine, Petra (advisor) ; Synek, Michal (referee)
In my thesis, I deal with active ageing as a concept that is reflected in social policies. Active ageing presents activity as a key to satisfaction in older age and directs ageing population towards bigger independence and care about their health. I conducted my research in a chosen cultural and educational senior center in Prague. My main interest was how active ageing as an idea was transformed into social practice and how the activity was emphasized in the senior center and amongst its clients. The success of active ageing relates to culturally specific values as independence, activity, health, and self-realization (Lamb, 2020). Activity became a base for the hierarchization of activities, as well as people. The senior center which deals with the idea of active ageing is a safe space for its clients where activity represents a new social capital. However, this social capital has its limits as the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed. Keywords: active ageing, activity, social capital, vulnerability, senior center, neoliberalism
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Productive ageing or volunteering of seniors in the Czech Republic
Šampalíková, Kamila ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
The main topics of this master's thesis are active ageing and volunteering of seniors in the Czech Republic. The text considers volunteering of seniors as a form of active ageing. The aim of this thesis is to look closely at volunteering of seniors, how they become volunteers, and find out how volunteering affects their quality of life. Using the method of qualitative research and biographical interview, as a form of data collection, 7 respondents were examined. The result of the research has shown that volunteering has a positive effect on the quality of life of seniors. Improving the quality of life is reflected in the fact that seniors take fewer medicines and they are in a better mental condition. Because of new relationships and experiences, they feel more socially included and happy. Moreover, it is shown that seniors likely to choose work with children as a volunteer activity. In addition, the research has shown that theory of continuity and theory of compensation are approximately equally represented as a theory of the beginning of volunteering. Key words Active ageing, volunteer, senior volunteering, quality of life, senior, ageing, age.
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Implementation of the Concept of Active Ageing in a Retirement Home
Glanzová, Tereza ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Angelovská, Olga (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with an implementation of the concept of active ageing in a retirement home. The population is ageing in the Czech Republic which results in increasing demand for residential long-term care that should offer the possibility of active ageing and provide diverse activities corresponding with seniors' needs. Active ageing is researched by case study in specific retirement home. Semi-structural interviews and participant observation were used to collect primary data. Secondary data were obtained using the website of the retirement home. Thematic analysis served for identification of both positive and negative elements of active ageing in the retirement home. These elements are further described in detail in this bachelor's thesis. Potential solutions to problems and barriers that make successful activization of seniors impossible are outlined in the discussion.
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The political dimension of social exclusion of elderly people as a result of the digital divide
Chmelíková, Tereza ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Potůček, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the phenomenon of the digital divide and its influence on the quality of life of seniors. The digital divide - a product of the modern information society - is one of the major factors influencing the social exclusion of elderly people. The theoretical part of theses introduces the concept of active aging as a way of successful solving problems associated with the population ageing, as well as a prevention of the exclusion of seniors from both society and participation in public affairs. The author mainly focuses on the issue of how are seniors in the Czech Republic at risk of exclusion as a result of digital exclusion. In the practical part, the present level of digital literacy of Czech seniors is explored. Following qualitative research - semi-structured interviews with experts - aims to find out whether the digital divide represents a social problem for the elderly people in the Czech Republic that contributes to their inequal position among the society, or even causes their exclusion from the participation in governance, and consequently, reduces the quality of their lives.
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Current life of "superwomen" after primary family breakup
Hanáková, Šárka ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava (referee)
This thesis is dedicated to women who were called "the super women" during the communist era. Their mission was to combine their profession with taking care of their children alongside of being a housewife. Even though the traditional model of the men supporting the whole family changed to more democratic model with the both man and woman supporting the family, the housekeeping and taking care of children still stayed the wive's responsibility. In the period of communism, women were "double burdened". They dedicated their lives for their families and the free time they had, which was less then what men had, mostly corresponded with the interests of children and the whole family. In this thesis I focus on how these women live nowadays. They have already retired and after losing their partner they now live alone. I also focus on how they deal with this different life situation and changes in their social roles. I work with the theoretical approaches of emancipated femininity and active aging as a way to cope with changes in social status. I chose the qualitative approach as a research method. It is implemented in this diploma thesis by analyzing thorough interviews with widowed seniors.
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Seniors activation strategy: from the perspective of Multiple Streams Framework
Zoššáková, Bohumila ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Frič, Pavol (referee)
The theme of the diploma thesis is the policy-making process, specifically the process of making of the National Action Plan for Positive Ageing for the Period 2013 - 2017. It's about exploring its creation from the viewpoint of active members of the Government Council for Seniors and Population Ageing, who was discussing it at meetings. The theoretical framework - Multiple Streams Framework deals with the aspect of policy entrepreneurs. Using qualitative, semi-structured interviews and then analysis of qualitative data, it was possible to explore the means, used by policy entrepreneurs to promote their ideas at meetings. This diploma thesis does not only study the creation of an action plan, but also the identification of policy entrepreneurs, through document analysis. After that were analysed primary data from interviews with members of the Government Council for Seniors and Population Ageing, who had been appointed by The Ministry of labour and social affairs. The studied, strategic document is the answer to the demographic ageing phenomenon the population of the Czech Republic.
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Elderly activization through social services system
Křivánková, Olga ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Kravciv Janečková, Marcela (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the activization of seniors in the system of social services. It focuses on issues in providing of activization services from the point of view of their providers. The key aim of the work is to discover and identify the main problems or weaknesses with strengths, opportunities and threats in the providing of social activization services for the elderly on the example of the Ústí Region. This issue is examined, in the work, on the basis of research interviews with providers of activization services for the elderly, further interviews with two experts at local and regional level. These data are compared and linked to data from relevant public policy documents dedicated to the area of the region and also to documents devoted generally to this issue at national level. This work is based on the theoretical and value points, namely the quality of life, active ageing, public policy cycle with a focus on the evaluation phase and ways of activization of seniors. Results from the Ústí Region clearly summarizes the SWOT analysis, which means that it finds not only gaps in providing of social activization services for the elderly but found strengths in providing of these services stand in contrast, too. Problems in provision are found primarily in the lack of interest of seniors...
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