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THE CHANGE OF LIFE STYLE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY
STÖCKEL, Barbora
Abstract Thesis Title: Changing the Lifestyle of People with Disability For my bachelor thesis, I have chosen the theme of change in lifestyle of people with disability. The main purpose, which led me to make this personal choice of this subject, was to bring a healthy population some detailed insight into the lives of people living without internal differences. Specifically of those, whose complications in their life journey forced them to be transformed from healthy individuals into clients of rehabilitation centres, who are fully dependent upon this specialized medical care and who are in need our help. My main motivation was my own empathy for these people. Then my aim was to also pinpoint the key issues that burdened these disabled people, and to also propose some possible solutions. The results I would like to introduce consist of a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with the particular definition of disability, lifestyle and comprehensive rehabilitation. The practical part is then presented in form of in-depth interviews with respondents who have experienced a very close connection with this theme. To obtain the necessary data, I have chosen the type of qualitative research using a narrative interview method. Interviews were recorded on an audio recorder and this was based on the consent of the respondent; then these interviews have been transcribed into written form, thus keeping their original length and colloquial form of language for maintaining authenticity. The respondents were selected randomly; their selection was based upon previous long-term personal contact during their joint stays in the healthcare environment. A pivotal aspect of my findings was that the key issues of the respondents have always been repeated and organized with only some minimal modification. The most noticeable change in human lifestyle of these people with disabilities is their limitation of freedom. Here, I would like to quote one of the respondents, who says: "Actually you do not live, but survive ..." I believe that my work objectives have been attained. With regard to any limitations resulting from my findings, these people with a "second" life bring to - 5 - humanity sense of boundless proposefullness and, in my opinion, this problem should be submitted to our society much more scientifically than it ever has been done before. Along with the use of the elimination of the factor of ignorance of healthy people and shame of people with disabilities, this solution is aimed as a direct way to reduce the huge distance between people with and without disabilities.
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