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The influence of faith on the ethical approach to the client in the home for the elderly
BOUZEK MATTASOVÁ, Jindřiška
Pensioner care went through large changes and development during last decade. Thanks to ageing of the population more pensioners live long enough to get into health status when they are not able to live in their homes and only few families can provide proper care to their elderly relatives. I decided to evaluate what is the influence of the personel directly caring about the people needing help, the influence of managers of the facilities, and the influence of the founders with relation to their faith. I studied amount of treatises written on the subject, I was in contact with several facilities, and I performed a qualitative research in some selected facilities. I also consulted the topics with specialists. Some facts are very promising as now is more professionals involved in direct care, and facilities often offer richer personal programme than before. At the time being there are wider possibilities of spiritual care. The research shows that the basic ethical values are endangered because of the controversy with funding of the care. Funding deficiency is the reason of the low numbers of personnel in facilities. This is by my observation the core problem. In this situation is exceptionally important the stance of the founder and a management of the facility, even if they are not in a direct contact with the elderly person.
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Ethical Dilemmas of Mothers Caring for Childern with Disabilities
BOUZEK MATTASOVÁ, Jindřiška
Thesis is aimed on ethic dilemmas of mothers with disabled children in care. Child health is the highest priority for most mothers and its permanent damage is one of the worst traumas a mother can face in her life. It is not easy to cope with such a situation and handling it causes a lot of stress which changes a whole life of such a woman. Every mother will approach such a situation differently. The goal of the theoretical part of the thesis is, firstly, to frame definitions of ethic, health disability, to describe home environment of disabled child, from the mother's point of view. Secondly, to give a brief on laws and ethic codex's concerning parents and their care of disabled children. The goal of the practical part was to map ethic dilemmas of mothers during their lives with disabled child. Mothers I questioned were in their middle age. I assumed that a woman in her 40ties is actively analysing her past and has somehow clear plans her future. To reach my goal, I chose a qualitative research through semi structural interview with selected mothers caring of disabled children. The set consisted of seven selected mothers. I completed interviews with these mothers and evaluated the results using a technique of open coding, "putting down cards" and think maps, which illustrate the situation of the mothers. Through my research I defined the ethics dilemmas the mother's faces and I identified factors which formed the solutions. The gathered information is not only useful for a research, but also for forming a base of a useful network of health and social services, which might support mothers who will face such a situation in the future.
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