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Individual Planning in House for Elderly People in Blatna
FLANDERA SMOLOVÁ, Tereza
Old years, in the case everything is good and people are given to be alive, are the last period of the life. Unfortunatelly, it often becomes complicated for physical and psychic difficulties. From this reason it is necessary to take a cautions approach to the life, especially in the case that the person has lost a partner who could provide him or her at least basic care and support. In view of the fact that an average time of the survival and the numer of old people and their families to look forward.They also should carry on preventivelly some things, for example to submit an application to gain a long-stay accomodation in a senior houses which can late help to solve unpleasant life?s situation. During interview with old people I found out that most of them had problems to fill in application forms to get a long-stay accomodation in a senior house. Some of them have difficulties to have an appointment with a doctor and to let him or her to fill in a form. Not due to they are handicapped but only because they are shy and are affraid of being placed in senior houses. A lot of people think that these ?houses? are only very last places before they are going to die very soon. In the first chapter I dealt with the present state of old peoples? problems which is above all typify with biological and psychological needs and their satisfying. Ageism /age discrimination/ is a very unpleasant phenomenon. A lot of old people have to be confrontated with it every day. It means for example during doing shopping, in the offices and so on. Very interesting for me was the part about how Czech people understood the old age.Their opinions are worth to have a think about them. In the second chapter I tried to highlight the characteristic of the care od old people which firstly start when we speak to them. The other very important part is the part about forms of the system of the care of old people. The next part offer the help to the families or the old people to choose the available place for a long-stay social accomodation. The third chapter deals with the listing and strict specification each, for old people affordable service around the town of Blatná and it?s surroudings which should help to choose the most available place. The fourth chapter deals with the history and the present days of the Senior House near the town of Blatná. It?s history started in 1952 when the first people were placed in the old castle in Lažany, the village within 10 kilometres from the town of Blatná. The fifth chapter deals with individual planning which is the main theme of my bachelor thesis and forms the core of research questions, concerning of the clients? and workers? opinions. The replies to researching questions I gained from the interview with some clients and some workers and supervisors. The information which I had got I sorted out logically and I even made some charts to get clear arrangement. This thesis, focused on regional features, could be useful for senior houses, head workers, supervisors and all workers in social services, I intended the thesis as an impulse to improve working environement in the team and also to improve the support and help for workers through the agency of supervising.
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The Role of Key Worker in the Home for the Elderly
VOTRUBOVÁ, Nataliya
The problem of old age and aging is a present topic. The bachelor thesis is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part is focused on the old age and aging, individual needs and their particularities, on the related legislation, care of the elderly, the Chvalkov retirement home, individual planning and the role of a key worker. The empirical part of the thesis deals with the research methods, the collection of data techniques, the research schedule, the characteristics and the method of choosing a research file, the methods of data processing and the results of the research. The first chapter of the theoretical part describes old age and aging and it specifies individual needs of old age. The second chapter then deals with the care of senior citizens in general, its division, its rules and regulations. The most important laws are presented with emphasis mainly on law no. 108/2006 on social services and on the related public notice no. 205/2006. The third chapter is focused on the Chvalkov retirement home, where the research took place. The next chapters deal with the key workers and individual planning. The empirical part of the thesis deals with searching for answers to the research questions. The aim of the thesis is to find out how individual planning and a key worker can influence the quality of social services from the point of view of the elderly in the Chvalkov retirement home. The main research question is: ?What importance do the elderly in the retirement home attach to the role of a key worker?? And three intermediate research questions are: ?What is the attitude of the elderly in the retirement home towards individual planning? What is the attitude of the elderly in the retirement home towards the role of a key worker? And what is the attitude of the elderly in the retirement home towards the importance of a key worker in connection with individual planning?? The empirical part of the thesis is based on qualitative research methods and on the questioning method (semi-structured interviews with open questions). The research itself was done in two stages. First a preliminary research was done, and then the main research followed. The senior citizens in the Chvalkov retirement home represented the researched group. The respondents were chosen by means of a goal-directed selection. The clients needed to meet some requirements ? to be residents of the retirement home for at least one year and to be willing to cooperate. Four respondents took part in the research. The method of creating clusters was used to analyse the obtained data using the qualitative research methods. It was found out through the research that thanks to individual planning the senior citizens in the Chvalkov retirement home are not only passive addressees of social services, but they can also decide on the quality of their life through the agency of a key worker. Individual planning encourages them to take an active role and responsibility of their own life, the key worker being a part of it. Individual planning and the role of a key worker are evaluated positively by the senior citizens and they find it of high importance for the quality of the social services.
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The Importance of in-home nursing care for seniors and their families
ŠPAČKOVÁ, Ivana
Domiciliary care as a field or ambulatory service is provided to people with reduced self-sufficiency due to age, chronic illness or disability and is also used by families with children, whose situation requires assistance of another person. The aim of the service is to individually support a person's life in their natural environment. The theoretical part is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with old age and aging, as it is the time when changes affecting the overall function of human body occur. These are then reflected in increased vulnerability, limited performance and decline of an individualas abilities. The second chapter deals with changes that come with age, which mainly relate to the physical, psychological and social area. In the third chapter I describe the current situation in the provision of social services. These services are defined by the Act no.108/2006 Coll. primarily as a means to ensure the greatest mental and physical self-sufficiency of the individual obtainable. The services seek to enable people to participate in daily life, live in dignified environment and be treated with respect. The fourth chapter deals with the concept of providing domiciliary care services in the Czech Republic. The last, fifth, chapter deals with individual planning, which is one of the most important tools to ensure and improve the quality of social services provided and is also enshrined in the Act no.108/2006Coll. describing social services. The practical part of my thesis was elaborated by the qualitative research technique, specifically the questioning method using a semi-standardized interview with predetermined open-ended questions and by analysis of personal documentation. Basic research sample consisted of selected users and staff of the care services provider Ledax (charitable trust). The aim of this research was to determine factors that are perceived by health care users as major. The investigation showed that these are mainly health deterioration and old age. My research has shown that users perceive their key worker rather as a confidant. They are not afraid to confide their feelings or problems to them and report that the worker always has enough time to hear them. On the contrary, the workers themselves see their role only as a helper's and also due to the large workload lack sufficient time for the user. From my own experience I can confirm that this problem is often encountered because caregivers are responsible for more users, and the care is not concentrated in one place. The solution for this situation would be to reduce the number of users assigned to one caregiver, but the provider would be forced to expand their staff. However providers are currently limited by operational and financial limits of the given organization. It is important to emphasize that if the care and support provided by the user be at a professional level, the key worker should coordinate the care for the user and be their confidant and guide in a difficult season of life. Although there are some differences in the view of the factor of caregiver's personality, I think that the fact that users perceive their caregiver as a confidant is also a guarantee of efficient implementation of individual planning in the organization of the provider.
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Activation activities in homes for the elderly in the Tábor region
HOFMANNOVÁ, Kateřina
Bachelor?s Thesis is focused on activation in homes for the elderly in the Tábor region. Theoretical solutions are introducing concepts of old age and aging, changes of old persons life, specification of communication with old person and last not least, meaning of activation in one?s old age. It?s describing also individual planning in residence social installations, role of a key worker and individual planning importance. Finally, possible forms of old persons activation are introduced. The practical part describes planned and implemented activities in selected homes for elderly, which are determined to their occupants. Next, it?s also focused on expert authorities of workers, who are participating on the leisure time coordination and realization.
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Individual Planning Application with Clients of Sheltered Housing.
HORŇÁČKOVÁ, Marta
A very much debated topic is currently an issue of the individual planning with users of social services. It has been seen as a cornerstone in a rendition of the first-rate social service. It is legitimized in the Law No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, where an obligation to plan a course of the service with the user is imposed with a respect to his/her needs and wishes so that he/she could be satisfied with an implementation and realization of the individual plans. The individual planning also belongs to important quality standards, that must be met so that the service could be provided on a high quality level, effectively and in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization while respecting the individual needs of the users. The aim of my thesis is to find out in which way the individual planning is carried out with users of the sheltered housing ?Proutek? in Jindřichův Hradec, whose clientele are people with mental disabilities. In the theoretical part, in order to achieve the objective, I will describe the individual planning, what specifics it has, methods and practices in the social work with mentally handicapped users, I will emphasize prerequisites for a successful planning with clients with mental disabilities. I will focus on the person of the worker who is engaged in the individual planning, how much he/she has been trained, which principles he/she should follow in the planning course to ensure the already above mentioned quality of the service in accordance with the standards. In the practical part I will specifically focus on an implementation of important preconditions for the high-quality individual planning for the users with mental disabilities in the sheltered housing. Through semi-controlled interviews with four assistants who realize the individual planning in the housing, I will find out the way of an implementation of the planning in the service, further I will evaluate positives as well as negatives which can occur during the individual planning with this specific group of users. An output of my bachelor thesis is an evaluation of the individual planning implementation in the service. A comparison of the assistants´ work and pointing out a good practice in a rendition of the first-rate individual planning with users with mental disabilities, focused on an application of principal planning prerequisites usable also for other establishments with a similar type of the service.
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The importance of a key worker for clients of the nursing-home Libníč
HELLEROVÁ, Irena
This Bachelor thesis deals with the importance of a key worker for clients sufferingfrom schizophrenia who are staying in the nursing-home with special regime in Libníč. The Bachelor thesis consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical and covers thetopics of individual planning, key worker and client. It also deals with the phenomenonof schizophrenia and communication with people suffering from a mental defect. In thepractical part, an interview is used to detect the actual importance of a key worker forclients in the nursing-home Libníč.
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Formation of Nursing Documentation and its Usage in the Home for Seniors Chýnov
CHAMROVÁ, Anna
Nursing documentation is becoming an important part of the medical documentation and it is an integral part of the nursing process in the homes for seniors too. The theoretical part of the Bachelor thesis ``Formation of Nursing Documentation and its Usage in the Home for Seniors Chýnov{\crqq} contains chapters concerning the nursing process and nursing documentation. Further this part deals with the characteristics of the Home for Seniors Chýnov and with the specific problems and needs of geriatric clients in particular the clients suffering from Alzheimer dementia. The target of the work is to make nursing documentation in the Home for Seniors Chýnov, to apply it in this establishment and to find out whether the availability of this documentation influences the holistic attitude of nurses to the client. The first stage of the research part involved formation of the new documentation and its application in the Home for Seniors. The respondents had an opportunity to work with the documentation in the months of January and February 2010. In the second part we tried to survey opinions of the respondents of the made documentation. Four research questions were preceding the research. Research question number 1: Shall the nurses working in the Home for Seniors Chýnov accept the newly made documentation as a part of the medical documentation? Research question number 2: Shall the nurses working in the Home for Seniors Chýnov refer to time consuming work with the documentation? Research question number 3: Has the new documentation influenced communication among the members of the nursing staff? Research question number 4: Shall the newly made documentation contribute to the change of the nurses´ opinion of the patients from the holistic philosophy point of view? To fulfil the set aims there was carried out the qualitative research using the method of questioning and semi-standardized interview. The research set consisted of 7 respondents (general nurses) working in this establishment. Considering the research results we suppose that the work target has been fulfilled. The research has proved that the newly made documentation has improved communication among the members of the nursing team and the nurses have accepted it as a part of the medical documentation. The aim of the work was making a quality nursing documentation which should be simple, not time consuming and which should be focused on specific needs of the clients of the Home for Seniors Chýnov. The thesis has practical contribution.
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Adaptation process of clients in senior home G - centrum Tábor
PĚCHOTOVÁ, Blanka
The objective of this work is to reveal the human attitude to overcoming difficulties and map the problems brought about by their inclusion to the senior home.The qualitative research was used in the work.The basic technique applied was a standardised interview with respondents during which closed and semiclosed questions were asked, and the technique of semi-standardised interview with the social workers. The research results have shown that seniors associate their entrance to a social institute with the expectation to receive assistance in managing difficult siotuations in their lives.As their capabilities decrease,they seek safety,company,the provision of care and security in its availability.
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Standards qualities social services in rest home.
KROPÍKOVÁ, Jana
The target of this thesis is to find out from providers of the senior home service the way how they elaborate and introduce the Quality Standards in providing care through their employees. In the thesis, all the Quality standards witch are set by law for social services providers and whitch are also one of the important criteria of social service evalution are characterized.
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The Aspects of Individual Planning at Innovation of Quality Standards in Homecare Services
HRDINOVÁ, Dana
This paper deals with one of quality standards in homecare services {--} individual planning during the homecare services. It shows principal and content of individual planning during the assistance with a client on present legislative background. It pays attention to homecare services characteristic and specification of its target group, particularly to skills, knowledge and key competences of employees, who are necessary for discovering clients´ personal goals, activating their resources and settling adequate support. There are also integrated theoretical requirements with practical instructions of methods usage and techniques of individual planning during homecare services with communicative and non-communicative clients. These principals are contact, dialog and relationship between key worker and client. The aim of this material is to give proposal for methodical content of individual planning in homecare services, thus set of rules describing course of this process.
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