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Boundaries between client and social services workers
VLNATÁ, Markéta
This thesis deal with the boundaries between clients and caregivers in nursing homes. It is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The first part is trying to figure out where the boundaries are between clients and caregivers. It examines what to search for, boundaries and help guides. It also addresses what should be a caring personality and how to approach their clients. In the practical part with the help of questionnaires completed by caregivers try to point out where these caregivers have their boundaries and how you can cope in a given situation.
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Forms of Harmonization of Private and Work Live of the Sandwich Generation for Managers
Řehořová, Martina ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
The thesis deals with the modern phenomenon of the sandwich generation focusing on managers. First part focuses on knowledge related to demographic pressures. It also defines the role of children and senior carers in the context of social policy in the Czech Republic. Based on the initial findings of role conflict of carers and staff my research was realized and it deals with the identification of impacts of experienced situation on the individual, who simultaneously finds himself in the role of a manager and children or senior carer, in his personal and professional life. The participants of the qualitative research underwent semi- structured interviews in which thematic areas related to the causes and circumstances of their role as caregivers and chief executive were included. Data analysis showed the impacts of factors influencing harmonization on personal and professional lifes of executives in the sandwich generation. Key words: sandwich generation, carer, harmonization, senior, child, manager, personal life, work
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The influence of elderly care for dependent senior to the relationsships among family members
Konrádová, Kateřina ; Jeřábek, Hynek (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee)
This paper deals with the relationships between family members in a later stage of the family life-cycle, parents have lost their full self-sufficiency. Adult children support their parents, interaction is frequent and this situation often leads to relocation. The basic question of this study is how these circumstances affects a relations between family members and especially intergenerational relationships between adult children and their parents. The paper is mainly based on the concept of ambivalence and the model of intergenerational solidarity. The research conducted in Czech Republic is a further important background. Data from the research titled "Family Cohesion in the Elderly Care" are analyzed. This research is implemented under the guidance of Prof. PhDr.Hynek Jerabek, CSc. and has a qualitative and quantitative part. Author uses the concepts such as conflict, ambivalence and affectual solidarity to describe intergenerational relationships. The conclusion is that intergenerational relationships in families are characterized by a very strong emotional bond, although high degree of conflict and negative emotion also appeared.
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Psychosocial Aspects of Huntington's Disease
Uhrová, Tereza ; Roth, Jan (advisor) ; Zvolský, Petr (referee) ; Benetin, Ján (referee)
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neuro-psychiatric disease with usual onset in the middle age. The mutation, located on the short shoulder of chromosome 4, is an expansion of a nucleotide triplet, containing cytosine, adenine, guanine (CAG), with critical limit of 40+ repetitions. The principal symptoms include motor symptoms (chorea, dystonia, disorders of voluntary movements), progressive cognitive deterioration and neuropsychiatric symptoms (behaviour disorders, affective symptoms and so on). The clinical diagnosis is confirmed by a genetic test, which may also be carried out presymptomatically in offsprings of the diseased person. The objective of the 1st study consisted in the characterization of differences in psychiatric examination and neuropsychological testing among the people at risk (PAR), in whom it was recommended to delay the test, and people at risk, who were recommended to continue in the so-called predictive protocol. The total of 52 people have been examined (32 females, 20 males). In addition to the common psychiatric examination we have also administered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-A), self-rating scale of general psychopathology (SCL- 90), three short cognitive tests - Trail making test, test of Verbal fluency and...
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Psychological aspects of care for the elderly
LACINOVÁ, Irena
This thesis deals with psychological aspects of elderly care during the last phase of life. It focuses on caring professionals and caring laymen. The theoretical part of the thesis describes physiological ageing and particular psychological aspects, which can occur during elderly care in the last phase of life. The practical part of the thesis contains short statements of caring professionals and caring laymen, who have experience with elderly care. The thesis occupies with negative feelings and states, that may occur in caring professionals and caring laymen and can lead to burnout syndrome.
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Home care in the Czech Republic and in Austria with emphasis on long-term entirely immobile clients
SVOBODOVÁ, Anna
Home care has already become an integral part of taking care of patients suffering of long-term sickness. I focused on the quality of home care and its current state in Czech Republic and in Austria. Experience earned in the Austrian domestic care attracted me the way that I decided to examine it closer. I set the objective to find the differences between the care in Czech and Austrian home care and the differences in relations between care workers and clients. I used available scientific literature, legislation valid in Austria and Czech Republic, and sources from the Internet related to the home care. My bachelor thesis consists of the theoretical part, which contains four chapters. In the first chapter I deal with immobility, where the main manifestation is the motion, which stimulates the motion apparatus and has a positive impact on the psyche of man. The target group for a long-term care are seniors, people with disabilities and chronically sick people. In the third chapter I characterize home and social care, which is described as highly qualified and professional form of care, which is linked with the health and social form. In Czech Republic, 2/3 of care delivered by agencies is focused on health issues, but it is in close cooperation with subsidiary agencies aimed at nursing services. Home care in Austria is not divided into health services, nursing or social services. This care provides complex services. Linking health and social care helps the client to find life stability. This care substitutes hospitalization and it shall be granted in its own environment, what affects the psyche of the client very favourably and it significantly affects whole recovery process. The fourth, and the last, chapter of the theoretical part deals with the personality of carer, when the carer is the worker, who carries out the care activity in the household of clients. Furthermore I describe here detailed assumptions to the work of the carer, the difference between committed and uncommitted worker, an integral part are competences and skill requirements placed upon the carer in Czech Republic and in Austria, and part of the conclusion is the sample of financial evaluation of carer in home care in concerned countries. The practical part of my bachelor thesis consists of collection of data, collected while using techniques of the qualitative research, the method of query based on using semi-structured interview, observation and analysis of personal data. Characteristic of the target group was created by communicative clients of Czech and Austrian home care, who carried II, III, IV degree of dependence. The respondents were three women from Dačice and three women from Raabs an der Thaya. Further I describe the process of the data collection and results of interviews. On the basis of my research, I came to the conclusion that there exists a difference in the relationship between carers and clients in compared services. Due to busyness, there is My research showed, that the Austrian care is historically older, so it may be the reason for better sophistication of whole system, it is economically more stable and, therefore, more financial sources flow to the system of this service, and that is reflected in the personnel and the financial evaluation of the staff. After pointing at the differences in the system of care, which is different in examined countries, my conclusion is, that the degree and the content of delivered services provided in both countries is the same, it is only provided in a different way. Clients are, in both home cares, health and socially secured, and this allows them, under the burden of their diseases, to stay at home in the environment, where they like it and where they feel safe. This theory is one of the objectives of home care, to ensure bio-psycho-socio needs of man. Czech and Austrian home care fully meets these basic objectives.
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Strain on professional social workes in a hospital falicity for seniors suffering from Alzheimers disease
FEIKOVÁ, Alena
Bachelor thesis deals with the burden of professional social workers looking after seniors suffered from Alzheimer disease. The degree of burden of professional social workers in particular inpatient institution for seniors suffered from Alzheimer disease is the aim of the bachelor thesis. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical ones. In the theoretical part there is a description of the contemporary state applying to the age, Alzheimer disease, stress and burnout syndrom in the broad sense of meaning. The empiric part contains particular case description of professional social workers, the summary of the largest stress situation within taking care of the seniors suffered from Alzheimer disease, the analysis of questionnaire`` Survey of Burnout Syndroms.`` The resume of all previous chapters is presented at the end of the bachelor thesis as well as the aim achieving and the possibilities of the usage of the bachelor thesis results in practice. The research results illustrate significant influence of negative human relationships on the possibility of burnout syndrom origin. Further stress impulsion is dementia and its progression at the clients. From questionnairs results there has been proved that the majority of employees reach the highest degree of burnout syndrom in emotional level.
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Senior citizens´ opinions about how caregivers should be rewarded for their work
KRŠKOVÁ, Hana
The bachelor thesis deals with rewards given by seniors to the caregivers employed in home care service institutions. Its aim was to investigate if such rewards influence the relationship between the caregiver and the client as well as the quality of provided care. The relationship between the persons involved can influence possible acceptance of a gift, its rejection or presenting a gift. Despite the fact that both the seniors and caregivers deny any change of mutual relations after accepting a reward, there still exist certain, sometimes even negative, changes. From the point of view of the seniors such changes occur when the senior considers giving a reward to be a necessity and part of the care. On the other hand, the caregiver may feel that the relationship deteriorated after the acceptance of a reward which he or she views as too valuable, and yet is not able to reject it in an assertive way. A reward may lead to enhanced {\clqq}permeability`` along the boundary between the caregiver and the client. Some caregivers feel indebted and try to pay back the client´s favour. Thus there can be an {\clqq}unconscious`` shift in the quality of care. The caregivers admit that they sometimes do the client an extra favour which is beyond their standard duties. The thesis also deals with the ethical aspects of accepting gifts.
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