|
|
Social Aspects of Hospice Care
FIALOVÁ, Markéta
This undergraduate thesis focuses on the social aspects of social care. The theoretical part clarifies and explains the relevant basic terms, in particular, terms like hospice care, palliative care, death, dying, social work, etc. In the practical part, I try, above all, to address the issue of satisfying the social needs of the clients of St. Jan N. Neuman Hospice in Prachatice. Another issue that led me to searching for an answer deals with hospices as providers of social services in accordance with Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, and their obligations arising from being registered per se. My research was conducted using the method of questioning respondents in the form of semi-controlled interviews. The interviews took place at St. Jan N. Neuman Hospice in Prachatice. As for my research in the area of the clients{\crq} social needs, it was based on a research sample consisting of the hospice{\crq}s four female clients. For the sake of completion, some of my questions regarding mandatory obligations of registered hospices were addressed to the said hospice{\crq}s director and one of its employees who is a social worker. My research confirmed that the social needs of the clients of the hospice in Prachatice are being satisfied to the extent of possibility. As to fulfillment of their social needs, on accordance with the obligations arising from Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, it can be stated that the scope of the mandatory commitment is being covered. In my opinion, the greatest problem is the emphasis, on the part of authorities, that is being put on the formal aspects of these issues, while hospices make maximum effort to satisfy their clients{\crq} needs in the first place.This undergraduate thesis focuses on the social aspects of social care. The theoretical part clarifies and explains the relevant basic terms, in particular, terms like hospice care, palliative care, death, dying, social work, etc. In the practical part, I try, above all, to address the issue of satisfying the social needs of the clients of St. Jan N. Neuman Hospice in Prachatice. Another issue that led me to searching for an answer deals with hospices as providers of social services in accordance with Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, and their obligations arising from being registered per se. My research was conducted using the method of questioning respondents in the form of semi-controlled interviews. The interviews took place at St. Jan N. Neuman Hospice in Prachatice. As for my research in the area of the clients{\crq} social needs, it was based on a research sample consisting of the hospice{\crq}s four female clients. For the sake of completion, some of my questions regarding mandatory obligations of registered hospices were addressed to the said hospice{\crq}s director and one of its employees who is a social worker. My research confirmed that the social needs of the clients of the hospice in Prachatice are being satisfied to the extent of possibility. As to fulfillment of their social needs, on accordance with the obligations arising from Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, it can be stated that the scope of the mandatory commitment is being covered. In my opinion, the greatest problem is the emphasis, on the part of authorities, that is being put on the formal aspects of these issues, while hospices make maximum effort to satisfy their clients{\crq} needs in the first place.
|
|
|
Poetika deaf and dieing in traditional and presently Czech culture
SRPKOVÁ, Zdeňka
Death is regarded as the end of the life cycle of any living being, including humans. Death has still been made a taboo topic of a regular conversation. Understanding the finiteness of death in this context is differently perceived in different cultures and in different periods of society development. Czech culture as a part of the Central European civilization area has its specifics in understanding the death issue, which is reflected in all varieties of artistic creations. Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to determine the attitude of a selected population sample to the death issue from the ethical point of view, and if the artistic expression of death influences this point of view. Another goal of this thesis is to find out if people think about death, which causes their thoughts depressive, or if they consider death an integral part of life concerning all of us. The thesis consists of two parts {--} theoretical and practical. In the practical part, the method of quantitative research, the interrogation method using the questionnaire technique was applied. The data obtained from the questionnaires were evaluated and made into graphs. The results show that the hypothesis 1: ``I do not think of death, when death comes, it will be present. I would feel depressed thinking of anything like that{\crqq} was not confirmed. On the contrary, the hypothesis 2: ``Death is a matter of logic, accompanying life, and I have been trying to cope with this fact both in the case of my loved ones and my case{\crqq} was confirmed. After the analysis of the obtained data, the hypothesis 3: ``I have encountered a death expression in a work of art and I felt deeply touched{\crqq} was only partially confirmed. The respondents claimed that they had encountered such a work of art but left untouched, because they considered the expression of death only a part of the work, which also confirms the hypothesis 4: ``I consider an artistic expression of death as a part of the work, a mere intent of a writer or and artist, I am not concerned at all. The thesis could be used as an instrument to inform the general public and professionals on the impact of artistic creation on the view of a certain population sample on the death and dying issue.
|
|
|
Euthanasia from the points of view of theology and ethics
BARTKOVÁ, Štěpánka
Abstract Euthanasia from the points of view of theology and ethics Key words: euthanasia, suffering, death, dying, dignity, human rights, doctor, patient, palliative medicine, hospice care, assisted suicide, religious motivation, followers, objectors of euthanasia In my thesis I am covering the topic of ?qeuthanasia??. The main objective of this paper is to introduce the reader to the problem of euthanasia from the points of view of theology and ethics. This thesis consists of theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part further consists of eleven chapters. In the first chapter, the types of euthanasia ares discussed (active, passive, prenatal, and assisted suicide). In the second chapter, the history of euthanasia is discussed in a great detail. The third chapter mainly concentrates on euthanasia in the world. The fourth chapter is about the criteria of death. In the fifth chapter, I address the questions of euthanasia and death in recent years. The sixth chapter is about the relationship between a doctor and a patient. The seventh chapter covers palliative medicine and the eighth chapter further expands on this subject with the topic of hospice care. In the ninth chapter, I pursue the point of religious motivational impact. The tenth and eleventh chapters are dedicated to the followers and objectors of euthanasia. The practical part concentrates on exploratory research. I have chosen sociological research using the methods of discussion. Here are three interviews with experts, who interact with dying individuals on a daily basis. These questioned specialists are believers and therefore the discourses are anonymous. The objective of these discussions was to uncover how professional in different facilities view the issues of euthanasia. This objective was sucessfully achieved.
|
|
|
Hospice care in aware laic society on Prachatice
TALAFOUSOVÁ, Marcela
The bachelor work deals with issue of Hospice care and accompanying of dying. The work is divided into two parts. Theoretical part is written on the base of science literature and contains 4 chapters. The first chapter deals with all phenomenons related with death. It describes each stage of the process of dying and closer to the position of today´s society to death. The second and the vastes chapter considers Hospice care, its history, forms and funding. It is also focused on importance of volunteers, social workers and pastoral assistants as multidisciplinary team in Hospic. The third chapter represents palliative care, which is the main pillar of Hospice care. The forth chapter is focused on accompanying, communication and care of soul of dying and his family. The second pratical part comes from the theory and is based on research. There are determined two goals of the social research (if the laic society from Prachatice and near surrounding is aware of hospice care and if the businessman are willing help to Hosic of sv. Jan N. Neumann in Prachatice.). There are defined two hypotesis. In research were used questionnaires for two groups of respondents, for laic public and for businessmen. The total number of respondents was 145.
|
|
|
A Social Worker in a Mobile Hospice (A Position of a Social Worker in a Multispecialty Team
NOVÁKOVÁ, Markéta
This dissertation deals with a question of dying, accompanying and a service of incurable patients in all forms of hospice treatment only marginally. I am mainly focusing on a homecare service as well as on the role of a social worker there. The first part is about a principle of hospice, accompanying and palliative care. It is describing several forms of hospice service including ethic problems. The next part is telling about begining of social work as a part of paliative medicine and describing a contexture between these two branches A question of voluntary work is also mentioned there. The third part is dealing about multispecialty team and a contexture among particular professional occupations, including social worker and his role, his position in the team, activities, competences, knowledge and abilities etc. The fourth part of this essay is about social work in a mobile hospice and about the importace of taking care of oneself as a burn-out prevention. The last, (fifth, sixth, seventh) parts introduce operative part , where I am trying to introduce information achieved through descriptive metod of interwiev with particular members of the multispecialty team and with the concrete mobile hospice social worker.
|
|
|
Fear of Death, its Interdisciplinary Characteristic and Dialog Research Method
MUSILOVÁ, Magdalena
Fear of death is related to the way we live, affects individuals and affects the attitude of a whole society. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. In the theoretical part, a definition of concept of ethics and bioethics can be found as well as a discussion of the differing perceptions of the value of human life, basic information about euthanasia and the possibilities for palliative and hospice care. Furthermore, different views on the fear of death are noted as are presented by representatives of several areas - anthropologists, psychologists, theologians and sociologists. In the next part an interdisciplinary overview of the fear of death is compiled, which forms the theoretical basis for the practical part of the work. In this part a qualitative research was carried out through half structured interviews on fear of death. Comparing the results with outcomes from the theoretical part, it was found that death is a taboo topic in a society and that the fear of death is natural. In line with the used literature, most respondents have a great fear of the process of dying itself than of the death itself. From this point of view it was uncovered, that there is a relatively low awareness of the possibilities of palliative care between respondents.
|
|
|
Accompanying of Dying People in Retirements Homes Including the Elements of Hospice Care
VALÁŠKOVÁ, Michaela
The thesis deals with accompanying of dying people in retirements homes including the elements of hospice care. First, the difference between mission of retirements homes and hospices is described. Based on theoretical pieces of knowledge from literature, there are defined: the dying, the reaction of a dying man to the message about his health state, needs of a dying man, care for the family of a dying man, engagement of a multidisciplinal team, death and care for surviving relatives. In the second half, the research on internal rules is described. The research is aimed at findings, if and how the single retirements homes treat the topic of accompanying of dying people in their internal rules. Last chapter results from the previous and offers the plan for creating the internal rules for accompanying of dying people.
|
|
|
Problems of a hospice care considering the viewpoint of nurses of the Home Care Agency and the patients
PEŠKOVÁ, Petra
The topic of my bachelor thesis is ``The issues of hospice care from the viewpoint of nurses working for home care agencies and potential patients``. The following two objectives and three hypotheses were formulated for the thesis: The first goal was to map the situation in provision of home hospice care from the viewpoint of nurses working for home care agencies. Two hypotheses were formulated for this objective. H1- Nurses working for home care agencies provide home hospice care and H2 - Nurses working for home care agencies are interested in expanding the home hospice care by means of mobile hospice units. The second objective of the bachelor thesis was to survey awareness of the lay public about the provision of hospice care by home care agencies. For this objective the third and the last hypothesis H3 was formulated {--} The lay public has no information about the provision of hospice care by home care agencies. A quantitative research method has been used to achieve the objective, using inquiring with questionnaires. Two types of questionnaires were used, one for nurses working for home care agencies and one for the lay public. The resulting data have been processed with a descriptive statistical method. The first surveyed group consisted of 57 nurses and the second surveyed group consisted of 75 respondents. We have found out that nurses working for home care agencies provide home hospice care but they are often unable to ensure quality conditions for such home hospice care. Another surprising finding was that the nurses working for home care agencies were not interested in extending the home hospice care with mobile hospice units. We believe that the nurses working for home care agencies lack the necessary information about the home hospice care. The hypothesis No. 1: Nurses working for home care agencies provide home hospice care has been disproved and also the hypothesis No. 2: Nurses working for home care agencies are interested in expanding the home hospice care by means of mobile hospice units has been disproved, which means the first objective has been met. Further, we have found out that the lay public does not have sufficient information about the provision of hospice care by home care agencies, which means that the hypothesis No. 3: The lay public has no information about the provision of hospice care by home care agencies has been confirmed and the second objective has been met. In this connection I have proposed some measures to improve the awareness of home hospice care. I have recommended informative articles to be developed for magazines intended for the lay public, as well as for professional journals for nurses. I have also recommended informative workshops for nurses and cooperation with hospice facilities.
|
|
|
The conception of the responsibility, the existence, the death and the redemption by Lévinas
SLAVÍČKOVÁ, Jitka
The work deals with the key concepts in the philosophy and cogitation of Emmanuel Lévinas: the responsibility, the existence, the death and the redemption. The aim of this work is methodical and digested to clear up of these terms. The first and second chapters treat about the life and publication of Lévinas and about the relation with Judaism and Talmud, because Judaism has the huge influence of Lévinas´s cogitation. Another chapter deals with the conception of responsibility by Lévinas and with the interpersonal relation. The fourth chapter processes the conception of the existence, mainly the conception of the existence as anonymous existence. The last chapter deals with the conception of the death and the redemption in the philosophical and religious sense.
|
|
|
The View of the Death in the Thought Conceptions in the Course of History
PŮBALOVÁ, Ludmila
Dissertation .. The approaches towards death and burial in different historical epochs of mankind dealing with a view of death in intellectual conceptions during the history. People have been engaged in the question of life and deaths for ages. It is one of the oldest, the hardests and the most fundamental questions which are asked. We can think of the death in two levels: a general and a personal. The comprehension of deaths was developing in history. Thesis traces, what affected and how it is possible, that the today`s subject of personal death states taboo, even if masmedia floods us with death of others. For understanding, the thesis goes throught history. From the methodological aspects it follows the time line, divides the history into ancient world, the Middle Ages and modern period, as well as on horizontal line following individually nations and their intellectual directions.
|
guest ::
