|
|
Caregivers in senior age caring for adults with mental disabilities
Hekšová, Tereza ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Angelovská, Olga (referee)
This bachelor thesis elaborates on the issue of ageing informal caregivers who care for the mentally handicapped. An informal caregiver provides care that is not at a professional level and is unpaid. Nevertheless, it is informal carers who are the primary providers of long-term or lifelong care for the mentally or physically handicapped. This care is most often provided by a person from the family, a partner or close family relatives. The thesis describes how the provision of this care to a mentally handicapped individual affects the life of an ageing informal caregiver. These are negative effects on the social and family relations, psyche and health of the caregiver, the financial security of the whole family and especially the security and safety of their mentally handicapped child in the future in all the needs. One of the purposes of the thesis is to identify primary needs and determine the current position of ageing informal carers in the context of social policy. Informal older carers face different and more diverse barriers than younger carers. They are a neglected and forgotten group, among other things due to the unanchored status of an informal caregiver in the Social Services Act. The work is based on qualitative research and with the help of interviews with carers and experts, it was...
|
|
|
Long-term care and non-formal persons caring the clients
VOSÁHLOVÁ, Aneta
My diploma thesis "Long term care and non-formal caretakers caring for clients" deals with persons who provide long-term and non-formal care for seniors in the home environment. This diploma thesis is divided into two parts, one for theory and one for the research. The theoretical part deals with the long-term care and with a number, type, economic status of non-formal caretakers. There is also a brief passage about the care benefit in the context of long-term care. One chapter deals with services that might be useful for the non-formal caretakers. The aim of the research part is to identify the most severe difficulties that the non-formal caretakers face. There are two main questions in the research part, " What barriers let to the termination of the care of the non-formal caretakers?" and "What are the dilemmas of the non-formal caretakers when deciding the transfer to a social institution?" There is also a description of the method and techniques of a structured interview and its analysis. The research showed that the most severe difficulties are the lack of finances for the home-care, limited or unsuitable spaces for the long-term care, restrictions of the free time, health problems of the care-takers and high physical and psychological demands. The main reasons responsible for the ending of the care are high demands, health problems of the caretakers, and fears of the future. Another dilemma that has been proven is the necessity of choosing between career and providing of non-formal care.
|
|
| |
|
|
Long-term carers as clients of social work
RYSKOVÁ, Kateřina
This bachelor´s thesis deals with the subject of long-term carers. It aims to discover whether long-term carers consider themselves to be clients of social work and what kind of help they expect to receive from a social worker. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on scientific literature and publications which deal with the topic of long-term caregiving. They are mostly literature or publications containing terms such as formal care, informal care, caregiver motivation, caregiver burden or social work, social worker. I chose the strategy of qualitative research, namely the method of a semistructured interview. The interview I have led with informants consisted of 11 questions. The purpose of these interviews was to find out who a social worker is according to longterm carers, whether they consider themselves to be clients of a social worker and what they expect from him/her. After obtaining the necessary information the interviews were transcribed and analysed through clustering. It ensued from the results of my research that long-term caregivers could not define a social worker nor his/her duties. Social workers were often confused with carers or social service workers. It was further suggested that long-term carers considered themselves to be social workers despite not knowing what his/her work includes. They expect a social worker to help them with taking care of a close person, ensuring hygiene and relieve a close person being taken care of of his/her pain.
|
|
|
Long-term Care And Non-formal Persons Caring For Clients
POUZAROVÁ, Dana
The aim of the diploma thesis themed Long-term care and the informal persons caring for clients is to identify both positive and negative aspects of the long-term care and its influence on physical and mental condition of persons taking care and their closest relatives. At first, the thesis deals with the issue of long-term care in the Czech republic and its division into two categories, formal and informal. Furthermore, the thesis presents the situation of the informal caregivers who have to face various obstacles arising from the nature of long-term care, such as their complicated relation with the formal institutions, lack of financial support, worsening of their lives' qualities and also lack of social recognition of their status. In order to retrieve the relevant information within the scope of the research question, the method using half-structured interviews was used. The research sample consisted of 7 female respondents from České Budějovice and its surroundings who were taking care of persons between the age of 5 and 71 years. The pesons suffered either physical or mental disorders. Some of them suffered both physical and mental disorder. At the beginning of the research the caregivers received two main questions. The first question was focusing on their perception of the current system of rules for informal caregivers, whether they support it or not. The second question aimed on describing the biggest positives and also the setbacks related to the care of person with some kind of disorder. The outcome of the interviews was that if a person decides to care of a close person with disorder there is a wide network of social services provided for him, even though it could be definitely improved. The issues which could be improved are primarily financial income of caregivers, accessibility and afffordability of relief services, providing more information and education for the informal caregivers, and last but not least the opportunity for caregivers' self-realization and their position at the labour market.
|
|
|
Informal Care and Informal Caregivers in the Social Care System from a Perspective of the Involved Actors
Šáchová, Klára ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Geissler, Hana (referee)
This thesis elaborates on the issue of informal care. By this term is meant a situation when a person who is dependent on somebody else's care receives this care from someone close, most often a family member of the dependent person. This type of care has been existing for a very long time but lately it has became a more frequently discussed topic and got higher attention in general. This thesis is focused on the process of increasing interest in the informal care by the public policy process towards informal care and caregivers. The main effort is put into identification of the most important events in history, actors and their mutual modes of interactions which are happening during the whole process as the rationale behind the basic line of evolution of position of the informal care and caregivers in the system of long term care. The thesis concludes that the reason for escalation of the interest in the informal care is an outcome of concurrent effort of few key actors who use different strategies for reaching their goals. On one hand, there are the European Union and the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as the most important actors whose significant position in the whole policy creation process is given by the institutional setting. On the other hand, there are the caregivers who very...
|
|
|
Importance of assistance for family caregivers
Michálková, Šárka ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Nová, Monika (referee)
In this thesis, I shall discuss the importance of supporting caregivers. I will focus primarily on the introduction and description of problematic phenomena related to caring, to the caregiver's role, then of delivering care and its species. In subsequent chapters I will focus on the pitfalls of care and the implications for caring. Next, I will dedicate the positive aspects of care. At work I will also support informal care from the state. I provide overview of options that can help them in caring for a related. At thesis I try to highlight the care provided by amateurish carers about the importance of their support and also to outline the positive aspects of care. Family carers deserve admiration. Their strength and conviction in many cases is unimaginable. Caregivers must overcome many obstacles and still manage most of the care.
|
|
|
The Informal Care for People with Disabilities in the Czech Republic
Hošťálková, Jitka ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Háva, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the system of the informal long-term care for people with disabilities in the Czech Republic. The first aim of the diploma thesis is to describe this non-conceptually solved issue and confirm the European prevalent tendencies to refamilization and deinstitutionalization in the Czech Republic. Author tries to identify the main problems within the system of informal long-term care through interviews conducted with informal carers and workers from selected social services. The diploma thesis emphasizes the target population of informal carers, who face many obstacles, whether it is the cooperation between the systems of formal and informal care, lack of finances, deterioration of quality of life or insufficient recognition of the status of informal carers from the society and the state. Informal carers are presented on the basis of theoretical perspectives as well as the results of conducted research as the invisible stakeholders of the Czech public policy.
|
|
|
Obstacles and barriers in informal care development in longterm care for elderly in the region of Pardubice
Wohnerová, Monika ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Čabanová, Bohumila (referee)
The target goal of this work is to identify the obstacles and barriers in informal care development in the context of long-term care for the elderly in the Pardubice region. These can be divided into two categories, firstly, the problems which informal long-term care for the elderly raise, secondly, the enhancement of the instruments belonging to social and health policy, which should moderate these difficulties. First of all, this work focuses on the fundamental issues of long-term care and its division into formal and informal aspects. Furthermore, it outlines the demands of informal care and arrangements implemented and intended for the support of this care type. Numerous difficulties arose on the basis of obtained the information from comprehensive interviews with the respective participants, those being problems of physical, psychological and financial character, lack of free time and partnership and family relationship issues. Several factors influence the development of informal care and the extent of support from public policy, these factors being such as the health of the elderly, assistance in the care from environs, vocational, housing and the financial situations of the persons involved, together with the attitudes of the seniors, the individual values and decisions of informal carers....
|
|
|
Normative Aspects of Informal Elderly Care
Pfeiferová, Jitka ; Jeřábek, Hynek (advisor) ; Čada, Karel (referee)
This thesis concerns the topic of normative solidarity in informal elderly care. The main aim is to find the normative premises of informal elderly care, their specific examples and to prepare a possible way of including normative solidarity into the model of solidarity premises of informal elderly care. The results are based on an analysis of in-depth interviews. Firstly, specific examples of the normative solidarity concepts are presented. Secondly, the possible option of how to include normative solidarity in the model is proposed, including eight main points that are mainly about a potential carer's previous experiences and her/his opinions about care. The quantitative research shall either prove this or show that it was specific to respondents of this particular research only.
|
guest ::
