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Social Policy Failure in Relation to Long-Term Care for the Elderly in Residential Facilities in the Czech Republic
Mrázková, Jana ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Dobiášová, Karolína (referee)
The need for all-day care for the elderly will be increasing, taking into consideration the future demographic development of the population. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to identify obstacles that impede the development of residential social care services for seniors in the Czech Republic which provide long-term care. There is an unsatisfied demand for them in the Czech environment lasting for many years. The thesis also focuses on detecting the systemic problems of long-term care policy in the Czech Republic and outlines possible recommendations or solutions for the future. The conceptual and theoretical framework of the thesis consists of a description of the concept of deinstitutionalization from the perspective of the theory of institutional change, a description of the concept of long-term care and typology of long-term care systems. The thematic analysis of the transcriptions of expert interviews and secondary documents tended to meet the research aims. The basic findings from the practical part of the work illustrate that the current system of long-term care for the elderly in the Czech Republic is inconvenient and requires several changes. Particularly alarming are the vaguely defined structure of users of residential services and the vague definition of an entitled senior...
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The influence of alcohol on memory in the elderly
Vajdíková, Markéta ; Šteffl, Michal (advisor) ; Půlpán, David (referee)
Title: The influence of alcohol on memory in the elderly Objectives: To estimate association between alcohol consumption and memory in the elderly above 60 years of age. Methods: The master's thesis is a cross-sectional study. All data were acquired from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project. For the purpose of this research, the participants were divided into four categories according to the highest acquired level of their education. For data analysis, Kruskal-Wallis Test and Mann-Whitney U test with Bonferoni's correction for post - hoc analysis were employed. The testing of participants involved immediate and delayed recall of 10 words. Results: In this research, a total of 36 534 participants were used. Out of this, 20 389 were females and 16 145 were males. In most categories, there were statistically significant differences in both tests, surprisingly preferring alcohol consumption (p<0.001). In males, who had problems with alcohol abuse during their life, the results of both tests were significantly worse (p<0.001). Conclusions: Results indicate statistically significant association between memory and alcohol consumption. Keywords: memory, cognitive functions, alcohol consumption, elderly, SHARE
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The specifics of interrogation of the elderly
Kosová, Alena ; Krupička, Jiří (advisor) ; Konrád, Zdeněk (referee)
The Specifics of Interrogation of the Elderly Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the specifics of interrogation of elderly. The thesis analyzes the general theory of interrogation, specifics of interrogation of elderly and requirements placed on interrogators in this kind of interrogation and with the help of members of the Police of the Czech Republic through semi-structured interview and questionnaire gives an insight to the interrogation of elderly in practice. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the specifics of the interrogation of elderly and to verify what the actual interrogation practice is and if theoretical recommendations and guidelines for conducting the interrogation of the elderly are followed. The first part of the thesis deals with the general theory of interrogation and its characteristics from the perspective of criminal law, criminalistics and forensic psychology. The second part of the thesis deals with the old age, aging process and above all the changes that occur as a result of old age and with which the interrogator may encounter during the interrogation. The third part provides the definition of an elderly person. The fourth part of the thesis focuses on specific peculiarities that characterize the interrogation of elderly people. The fifth part of this thesis offers an...
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Analysis of trends in mass media production based on the example of evolutiion of the elderly representation and framing in selected Czech daily newspaper
Papoušková, Martina ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Supa, Markéta (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on content trends in the Czech national daily press examined on an example of evolution of media framing of the elderly. It is based on a premise of mass media having a role in the social construction of reality by presenting certain agenda and frames. The aim of the thesis is then to study stereotypization and tabloidization in the evolution of elderly media framing in the last 20 years and to analyze whether the titles are heading towards content diversity, quality and equality or rather towards stereotyped and tabloid-like manner of informing their audience. In the theoretical part, two trends of stereotypization and tabloidization are defined and operational approaches are explained. Also, the topic of elderly, their characteristics and current issues and research of their media representations, is covered. Empirical research in the second part consists of a quantitative content analysis of relevant media articles about the elderly during years 1998, 2008, 2018. On the level of a thematic structure, the results show a long-term orientation on few and stereotyped frames of politics, economics and crime. On the other hand, on the level of an inner structure of the text and manner of informing, the Czech press has been inclining towards quality, neutrality and...
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The role of volunteers in non-profit organizations providing social service for seniors from the point of view of social actors
Cízová, Natálie ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Průša, Ladislav (referee)
This thesis deals with the role of volunteering in social services for the elderly in non-profit organizations. The aim of the work is to find out what benefits volunteers can provide for clients. I have focused on non-profit organizations for which volunteering is typical. I acquired data through in-depth interviews with clients and volunteers selected non-profit organization providing residential care for the elderly. Through this research I have offered a look at the benefits of volunteering through the requirements of current social services. Volunteers have been found to contribute to a higher quality of service. Key words: social service, volunteering, non-profit organizations, third sector, elderly, residential care
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Activating programs as a way for spiritual development for erderly in a retirement home
HOŘÁKOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis deals with saturation of spiritual needs of elderly in residential houses through the perspective of activationists. In the preliminary part are treated questions about ageing, adaptation to ageing, human needs and spiritual needs at first. After that is discussed the activity in elderly, not only in relation with the adaptation to ageing but also as a place of activation. At the last part of this chapter it´s question of residential houses and activationists. In the practical part there is an analysis and evaluation of approaches to the saturation of spiritual needs in activating programs of chosen activationists. The selection of responders represents different characteristics of residential houses in the Pilsen region. The different approaches to spiritual needs in the activating programmes are induced by the personal knowledge, experience and abilities of activationists.
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Marketing segmentation of the elderly market
Spěváková, Kristýna ; Zezulková, Markéta (advisor) ; Halada, Jan (referee)
(Abstract) The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of marketing segmentation with a focus on the population over 55 years of age. First part of the thesis conveys the theoretical framework of this phenomenon, where key segmentation approaches are presented and segmentation itself is incorporated into a wider strategic framework along with targeting and positioning. At the same time, current topics and debates within the marketing segmentation are elaborated, with the emphasis on the controversy over the validity of the age-based segmentation of the elderly market. The practical part presents author's research based on data from the MML-TGI database, which aims at revealing the differences between the cohorts of the older population and at the same time it aims at characterizing these cohorts. Finally, another mission of the research is to confirm the assumption that the segmentation of the elderly population with age as an exclusive segmentation criterion without recognizing various differences between members of this group is not appropriate.
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Possibilities of psychotherapeutic interventions in senior homes
RÁČKOVÁ, Zdeňka
This bachelor thesis looks into possibilities of psychotherapeutic interventions in retirement homes. Goal of this bachelor thesis is to find out ways of psychotherapeutic interventions in retirement homes and which psychotherapeutic methods are currently used. Next goal is to find out which therapeutic tools and techniques are used in retirement homes. This work is divided in two parts. Theoretical and practical. Theoretical part has four chapters. First one covers process of getting old and its effects in somatic, cognitive, emotional and social sphere. Second chapter defines term "retirement home". Who are they for and what services are in these facilities provided. Third chapter looks into psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic relationship and personality of the psychotherapist. It also covers basic forms of psychotherapy, three important movements (directions), approaches and psychotherapeutic intervention. The fourth, and last, chapter focuses on psychotherapeutic tools and techniques used in retirement homes (animo therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, ergo therapy, musical therapy and reminiscence therapy. Practical part looks into qualitative research in which 5 retirement homes employees took part. Every employee was involved in semi-structured interview. The interview was based on goals and research questions set for this bachelors thesis. Data was processed by content analysis. The research found out that only one of five retirement homes provides psychotherapeutic intervention to its clients. However in all facilities are used different psychotherapeutic tools and techniques which supply missing psychotherapy.
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Field health-social care for the elderly in Týn nad Vltavou
DĚDIČOVÁ, Lenka
This thesis is focused on providing field health social care for the elderly in Týn nad Vltavou. It process information in regards to users as well as providers of these services. The work is divided into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part characterizes aging, old age and changes associated with it. It further clarifies the demographic situation in the Czech Republic and its social services. In the last theoretical part are defined specific field health social services for the elderly in Týn nad Vltavou. The aim of the practical part of the thesis was to find out how subjectively are elderly citizens satisfied with quality and services provided in health and social services in Týn nad Vltavou. To obtain information on the issues set, I used a qualitative methodology a technique of a semi-controlled interview and an analysis of user's personal documents. The semi-controlled interviews were conducted with seven users of various degrees of interdependence. For further clarity, I conducted four interviews with employees of selected social services in Týn nad Vltavou. For the completion of the issue were conducted semi-controlled interviews with four employees from selected social services in Týn nad Vltavou. To analyze clients' personal documents, I used the records of home health care, where I have been working for over ten years. The decisive factor for the use of the services offered is the amount of care allowance. The result of this study was to determine that with the provision of field health and social care quality of life of older persons in their natural social environment was not reduced.
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Physical activity and its effect on the depression in the elderly
Sojková, Eliška ; Šteffl, Michal (advisor) ; Hráský, Pavel (referee)
Title: Physical activity and its effect on the depression in the elderly Objectives: The main aim of this work was to estimate the influence of physical activities on depression in a population over the age of 50. Methods: The work has the character of a cross-sectional study. For data analysis, we used the freely available international database of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). To estimate the influence of physical activities on depression, generalized linear regression models for binominal variable were used. Results: The survey involved 58,676 respondents with an average age of 67.3 ± 9.6 years. Of those tested, 55.3 % were women and the rest were men. The strongest relationship between depression was found in activities requiring medium energy expenditure OR (95 % CI) = 0,755 (0,709-0,803). Conclusion: The analyses confirmed that physical activity significantly affects depression in people over 50. Keywords: physical exercise, slump, elderly, mental health.
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