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Senior's View on the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Practical Life
TICHÁ, Zuzana
The development of the imformation and communication technologies is at the contemporary time a very actual theme. The object of this bachelor work is to find out the senior´s taking of the information and communication technologies and their using in the practical life. The theoretical part of this work is formed by three basicly chapters, concerning the problems of the age, growing old and defining of the therm senior. Also are they intending on the senior´s education, going nowadays forward, involving practiculary the Virtually university of the third age. The last chapter is intending on the information and communication technologies, on its characterication and the senior´s reference to these technologies. In the empiric part of the work occures the work destination, that has to find out, what is the senior´s way to the information and communication technologies the main research question: "What way are the seniors to identify with the using of information and communication technologies?" To get the most exact answere of the main research question with the next secondary questions were the ground for the interview. Like the best for this acivity was chosen the questions research strategy. To get the data helped the asking method and the fast phase was the ahead research and then the proper one. The research group formed the students of the Virtually University of the third age, elected by designed quota election. From the research resulted the good senior´s orientation concernant the information and communication technologies terms and they are using all kinds of it daily. They accept the advantage of the open informations, of the communication and the rate of speed, which these technologies are desposing, on the other side the seniors are speaking about the disadvantage of the social isolation. Nowadays they want to keep these technologies because they are standing for them the certain relieve in their life, but they don´t want to prolonge the study because the také their knowledge for safficient of this domain.
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Selected questions of care for the elderly in terms of social inclusion
TESAŘOVÁ, Marie
The diploma thesis is focused on senior's education and aims to find out whether seniors are interesed in education and whether this interest is influenced by the age or financial situation of the individual. The whole work is primarily based on the context of the National Action Plan for Positive Aging for the period 2013-2017, where social inclusion of seniors focuses on the areas of ensuring and protecting the human rights of elderly people, lifelont learning, healthy aging, a quality environment for the elderly, volunteering and intergenerational cooperation, employement of older people and care for the most fragile seniors with limited self-sufficiency. The thesis was divided into a theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part are described in detail the necessary terms related to the given issue and the practical part includes the chosen target of work, hypothesis, methodology, which subsequently tests these hypotheses, the results of the survey and the final discussion.
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Third Age education in Municipal library in Louny
Vaic, Petr ; Tyslová, Irena (advisor) ; Kouba, Vojtěch (referee)
The thesis' theoretical part focuses on resource research on topics: education of seniors, volunteering, communities, societies and library. In the practical part of this thesis, we focus on description of not-only educational work of Municipal library in Louny and the analysis of senior's attendance in culture using a custom survey. The survey was focused on middle-aged and older inhabitants in the town Louny, and developed, evaluated and collected by the author of this thesis. In the last part, we can find description of the collected data. Here it analytically evaluates and compares information about the socio-cultural activities in Louny, and offers the next step of development for management of the library.
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Selected Aspects of the Active Aging among Students of the University of the Third Age
Fialová, Eliška ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Vojtko, Tibor (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with selected aspects of the concept of active aging in the context of education at the University of the Third Age. The thesis is divided into two parts - the first part consists of four chapters and presents basic thematic units (age and aging, theoretical concepts concerning age and aging, active aging) using domestic and foreign literature. The work defines the concepts of age, aging and older adult, summarizes related demographic contexts, and presents the Universities of the Third Age and their role in education of older adults. It also presents the concept of active aging and its development and three other concepts related to active aging (healthy, successful and productive aging) using mainly foreign sources. The concept of active aging is then brought closer to the point of view of several international organizations and, consequently, its key aspects are outlined. The second part of the thesis contains quantitative survey among students of the University of the Third Age and focuses on previously defined aspects, especially on participation in the labour market, participation in physical activities, participation in volunteering and other possibilities of active leisure time in old age. The collected data are then evaluated and interpreted. Keywords old age,...
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Participation of the Elderly in Education in the Context of Demographic Aging
Macas, Karel ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Mühlpachr, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on participation of the elderly in the context of demographical ageing. The area of interest is introduced in the first part - ageing and old age, elderly education, demographical ageing, functions and significances of elderly education and educational institutions. This part is based on Czech and foreign professional literature and documents. The second part contains data concerning participation of the elderly in educational activities and an empirical survey. The survey deals with the participation of the elderly in educational activities. Also barriers, motivation and opinions of the elderly about the offer of educational activities were researched. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Czech public libraries as an institution of lifelong learning with a focus on seniors
Stluková, Iva ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Zadražilová, Iva (referee)
(in English): This thesis is dedicated to projects of lifelong learning in Czech public libraries. Its aim is to examine to what extent Czech public libraries are devoted to lifelong learning, especially retiree education, and further, to analyze specific educational projects. Considering the demographic development of the Czech population, there is highlighted the importance and the significance of organizing such programs in the libraries. The first part of the thesis presents theoretical basis and explains terms such as lifelong learning and education, learning society, and formal, non-formal, and informal education. Another part of the thesis deals with gerontopedagogy and old age pensioners. Specific forms of adult education are also presented here. In the practical part, there is an analysis of educational projects of libraries and the questionnaires of the participants are evaluated.
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Older Adults Excoursion Tour as a Specific Form of Education
Marková, Zuzana ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the (sightseeing) tour for older adults as the specific form of education. The thesis is divided into five chapters. In the introductory chapter the main theme of this thesis is set into the context of demographical ageing and silver economy. Following two chapters focus on the specifics of older adults that are important for participation on tour for older adults. Simultaneously these chapters are focused on educational aspect to subsume the sightseeing tour into forms of adult education. Another part presents the specifics of the sightseeing tour for older adults in accordance with senior tourism. It is followed by analysis of the tour for older adults which are offered by travel agencies in the Czech Republic, which verifies a validity of theoretical knowledge about specifics of older adults presented in previous chapters. Keywords: older adult, tour, sightseeing tour, bus tour, tour for older adults, sightseeing tour for older adults, interest adult education, senior tourism, elderly education
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Comparison of institutionalization of senior education between the Czech Republic and Kingdom of Spain
Varvařovská, Tereza ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Záškodná, Helena (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on comparison of institutionalization of elderly education in the Czech Republic and in Spain, especially on comparison of institution of the University of the Third Age in the both countries. The work is divided into five chapters. Introductory part of the thesis is devoted to theoretical bases of education of elderly people and the importance of education of older adults for the society and an individual himself, based on prognosis of trends in demographical situation in Europe. The main part of the thesis is focused on institutionalization of elderly education and there are introduced the most important forms of elderly education in the Czech Republic and in Spain. This part further results in the comparison of institution of the University of the Third Age in the both countries according to six elected criteria. The aim of the thesis is to find out if the institution of the University of the Third Age in Spain is based on the similar model as the institution of the University of the Third Age in the Czech Republic. Keywords: elderly education, institutionalization, university of the third age, elderly people, older adults
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Education as an instrument for improving the quality of life of elders in the context of social care
Sýkorová, Marie ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Mühlpachr, Pavel (referee)
- 5 - SUMMARY This thesis is dedicated to the assessment of the current state of education and care for the elderly, and outlines ways to improve care through education and, ultimately, to achieve life satisfaction of seniors. The thesis is written in the form of a comparison of scholarly sources dealing with the education and care of the elderly, and the current legislation of the Czech Republic. The thesis also includes an empirical study which draws on a quantitative questionnaire survey in a selected nursing home. This investigation aims at further education of the elderly and its effect on life satisfaction of population in this age group. Key words: Old age, aging, older adult, elderly education, social services for the elderly.
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Seniors education on the example of theproject Third Age
Kramperová, Markéta ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Mühlpachr, Pavel (referee)
This thesis presents senior education. Due to the increasing number of older people in our society, senior education has become important way how to keep them in an active lifestyle. The beginning of this thesis is devoted to the theoretical bases of senior education. There are explained terms like aging, old age, senior and introduced fundamental involution changes that relate to senior. The main part of this work is focused on the project Third Age, which has been implemented in the City Library in Louny. The implementation of the project joined in the region several hundred people and because of it the project became the largest such project in the district of Louny. The project is a successful example of good practice addressing seniors' education at the regional level. Empirical investigation finished off the main passage of the thesis. It is aimed at finding the motivation to education and its potential barriers that they perceive the project participants. The empirical part of the thesis was carried out by questionnaire survey. Keywords: education of seniors, ageing, old age, seniors, Third age Louny
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