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Perception of the Elderly by the Students of the University of South Bohemia
LIDOVÁ, Lenka
Abstract This diploma thesis named "Perception of the Elderly by the Students of the University of South Bohemia" provides a detailed insight into the senior population viewed by the university students. The aim of this work is to register the students' attitudes and the opinions to this issue. The work consists of two parts a theoretical and the practical. The theoretical part deals with issue of ageing process, namely with the changes which are carried by this life period. Further, this part looks at personalities of university students and their needs in general. Next, it covers a general knowledge about interpersonal perception among humans. This part also describes problems of prejudices and stereotypes connected with a very actual issue ageism. The practical part of this diploma thesis contains an own qualitative research which includes a description of used methodology, examined sample, outcomes and further discussion. These data were collected during a field research in February 2014. It was used a technology of semantic differential. The research was undertaken within the University of South Bohemia. Students of Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Health and Social Studies, Faculty of Economy and Faculty of Agriculture were asked to take a part in this study. They expressed their opinions via a web portal www.mojeanketa.cz. These faculties were chosen deliberately for their different fileds of studies. Thus, I compared the opinions of the students whose fields of studies are specialized either on the market and the business sector, or whose fields of studies are specialized on the help professions and, therefore, their further practice will be orientated to the non-profit sphere. Within this study there were distributed 400 record sheets in total (100 for each faculty) where the responders expressed their opinions. The opinions on the perception of the elderly were expressed within the scale from 1 to 5. The values of this scale has been of a contradictory character. For instance, there were these characteristics: beautiful/ugly, noisy/calm, self-sufficient/un-self-sufficient etc. There was also stated a hypothesis which has been predicted that the students of the University of South Bohemia perceive the elderly positively. The research proved this expectation. The outcomes also show that there is no big difference between the individual opinions of the students of different faculties. This result is actually very positive and, therefore, we can say that the students of the University of South Bohemia do not display any prejudices and stereotypes towards the senior population. The outcomes of this work might be very beneficial as sources for educational work beyond ageism. Further, there can be reached conclusions which will lead to reflection. This work can be used for further scientific investigations and publication activity.
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Social Relationships in Old Age
VERUŇÁK, Ondřej
The bachelor thesis deals with social relations in old age. It is divided into three chapters. The first chapter defines the concepts of aging and old age, describes the demographic changes in contemporary society and age periodization in terms of calendar. It also describes typical physical and mental changes that occur in old age. The second chapter is devoted to the question how old age affects old people's social life. It focuses on the transformations of family, marital and social relationships in old age. This chapter also deals with the issue of ageism and the transition of seniors to institutional care. The relationship of seniors, the question of faith and spiritual needs in old age, together with the question of how society perceives death today is the subject of the last part of the chapter. The third chapter contains a qualitative research - interviews with some seniors on the above mentioned topics of social relationships in old age.
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Labour marketopinionof seniors in the Czech Republic
PODLEŠÁKOVÁ, Jana
The thesis is interested in labour market opinionof seniors in the Czech Republic. At first it defines the term of senior and old age. The biological and psychological changes considering with ageing are mentioned. Strength and weakness of seniors are counted. These can have an influence on economic activities of seniors. According to statistics of the Czech statistical office the actual situation and the possible development oflabour market opinion of seniors are presented. After the first theoretical part there is the second one, practical part with questionnaire. The answers from questionnaire are compared with other responses which European Union found out in its survey.
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Medial Image of Seniors
SKÁLOVÁ, Markéta
The aim of the thesis is the most faithful interpretation of a senior´s image presented by media taking into consideration possible culture, political, social, alternatively other contexts jointly forming and affecting this image. During the data collection and their evaluation following research questions were taken into account: Do media information concerning seniors come under a typification and/or stereo-typification? Do the media correctly use terms "a senior" or "a pensioner"? Is it possible to discover an age-related discrimination in the media? To achieve this objective there was used a methodical support in a form of a content analysis of the most popular Czech dailies (Blesk, MF Dnes, Právo, Aha!) in the period from January 1st, 2010 to June 30th, 2012. The content analysis was followed by an interpretative part of the research based on the Glaser-Strauss´ grounded theory method. It was followed by a comparison and evaluation of the above stated methods using a categorization and a description of each of those categories arising from the research results.
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Health condition and lifestyle of discoverts women over 60 years
NEJEDLÁ, Kateřina
The thesis focuses on finding the health and lifestyle of lonely women after sixty years old. The theoretical part characterizes the old age and the process of getting old, the health, loneliness, seniors living, generation gap relationship, ageism and poverty. Practical part contains of quantitative research, where there are mentioned above to compare reciprocally the aspects among women of the same age living with their husbands or partners to women living without a partner. The aim of the thesis is to find out, how do the lonely women feel after sixty years old? What is their health like? What is their lifestyle like and how they spend their free time.
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Perceptions of the elderly by society
ŠANDOVÁ, Libuše
I chose the topic of my thesis The perception of Elderly by the society because I believe that it belongs to major actual topics. The whole world faces the demographic issue of aging population and our country is not an exception. The aging of population is accompanied by a number of problems, which may induce negative perception of aging among inhabitants of the particular countries and tension among generations. However, everybody must realize that they are heading towards old age because the aging process relates to everyone since birth. Old age is only a result of the lifelong process of aging.The aim of my thesis is to map the differences in the opinions of people aged 18 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, and 50 to 65 regarding the age when a person is considered to have become a senior. I also wanted to find out how the respondents feel about the situation and status of seniors in the society and to discover whether the attitude of the respondents towards elderly people is positive or negative. How the subjective perception changes with the respondents´ increasing age? Are there any differences in the opinions of men and women? In which age categories can we already perceive some elements of aging? To meet the objective of my thesis I determined the following hypotheses. H1: Persons up to 30 years of age perceive seniors and old age as a negative issue and later their perception changes to tolerance. H2: There are differences between the perception of old age and seniors by women and men not only within the particular age categories but also in general. H3: The current society behaves adversely towards seniors. In the theoretic part I am firstly addressing the individual phases of a human life. I am also paying attention to the period of old age and to changes accompanying the final part of human life. Subsequently, I am clarifying the terms age, geriatrics, and gerontology, which are connected with the topic of my thesis. Following is a chapter called Old Age and Society where I am addressing the issue of perception of old age in the past and at present. Another topic is aging. I am dealing with the term´s definition and the causes of its origination. Then I am tackling the topic of population aging. In the final part of my thesis I am focusing on financial securing in old age, retirement pensions conditions of the claim and its individual types. For my survey I used an anonymus questionnaire. I asked respondents aged 18 to 65, which I divided in the aforementioned four age categories and compared the results. The thesis may be used by society organizations as a basis for education of young people and it can also be published in the journal Kontakt.
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Mutual perception of seniors and teenagers
LIDOVÁ, Lenka
The present bachelor thesis consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. Its theoretical part engages in the characteristics of growing up and aging, and describes pubescence, senescence, old age, with all changes that these life phases bring with them. Furthermore, it examines the problems of ageism or discrimination because of age. The practical part of the bachelor thesis is based on research and findings that were acquired in such research. The objective of the whole thesis was to determine - by means of a semantic differential - teenagers? opinions of seniors and vice versa. Our intention was to ascertain from respondents, who completed record sheets, if they are prejudiced in any way against the other generation and if they are influenced by stereotypes. Identical record sheets were prepared for both target groups, whereas these record sheets introduced contradictory traits of character., such as slow-fast, beautiful-ugly, tidy-untidy, communicative- uncommunicative and similar. Results of this evaluation of individual character traits performed by respondents reveal apparent differences. However, the overall findings show that both groups perceive each other positively. This bachelor thesis may be used for future publication activities and as potential documentation tackling the issues of ageism.
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Ageism and the presentation of older people in television commercials
VÝLETOVÁ, Veronika
The bachelor thesis deals with old age and age discrimination ? ageism. The theoretical part is devoted to the general definition of old age, subsequently it is described the issue of ageism, in other words, describing the definition of ageism, then there are mentioned stereotypes and sources, from which the ageistic positions come from and areas, in which are significantly displayed ? the mass media. The thesis also briefly covers the state social policy approach to the issue. In practical part I paid attention to the display of seniors in media, specifically in tv commercials. During 2012 was done a research using qualitative methods of semiotic analysis, in which I tried to answer the question of how seniors are displayed in tv commercials, and whether in these presentations can be found negative stereotyping or discriminatory elements.
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Issue of employment of people aged 50+
Kousalová, Martina ; Stříteský, Marek (advisor) ; Sovová, Andrea (referee)
The Bachelor Thesis deals with the issue of employing people aged 50+. It is focusing on people, who are in productive age, partially on people already in retirement. Objective of the Thesis is to define individual aspects of employing such a person, introduce to predicated age structure of population, clear up legislative frame and relevant judicature, as well as to make a summary of steps already done in issue of employing people over 50 years old within the Czech Republic and the European Union. Analytic part contains secondary data and its analysis which purpose is to complete the full image of this task. Practical part's objective is bringing forward and evaluate actual situation in the Czech Republic and Czech labour market.
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Selected ethical context of violence against seniors in terms of social workers
FIRICOVÁ, Alena
This dissertation deals with the ethical context of violence against seniors in the point of view of social workers. The theoretical part devotes with problems of old age and aging in contemporary society. The next section presents the violence, with an emphasis on institutional violence. The third charter reflects the theme of violence from the perspective of social work and ethics. The target of the practical parts was to map out knowledge and attitudes of workers in social services for violence against seniors, and to establish the circumstances that contribute to the potential threat of violence in the institutionalized elderly care. This part contains the basic results of empirical studies and case studies.
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