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Homecare and its importance
TITĚROVÁ, Pavlína
Home Care and its Importance Abstract Home care is the form of health and social care focused on the clients who would otherwise be admitted to hospital, and it is provided in their own homes. On the basis of physician ´s indication it is fully paid by health insurance companies. The origin of home care is linked with the beginning of Christianity, when charity nursing developed hand in hand with it. The current form of home care has been achieved in the course of centuries, when it was influenced by significant historical events, economic situation and reforms of particular period. Religious orders and deaconesses significantly participated in the development of home care. In the Czech Republic the situation in home care dramatically changed in 1990, when first agencies of home care started to originate. The aim of complex home care is to provide clients with maximum availability, quality and effectiveness of care. Currently the home care is focused especially on maintenance and support of health, recovery and the development of self sufficiency, easing the suffering in incurable patients and ensuring of restful dying. Every year it is provided to hundred thousands clients in natural environment of their homes. The aim of the thesis called Home Care and its Importance was to find out the structure of clients and the range of agency home care, and also to find out what importance is seen in home care by laic public. The aims of the thesis have been fulfilled. Four hypotheses were stated. On the basis of carried out questioning in experts it is possible to prove the first hypothesis: the highest number of home care clients is created by long-term ill. It is also possible to prove the second hypothesis: home care agencies provide the care of mentally ill. On the basis of carried out questioning in laic public it is possible to disprove the third and the fourth hypothesis: the laic public do not know about the positives of home care and the laic public do not know about the forms of home care. The quantitative research was carried out to the topic of Home Care and its Importance. The method of questioning using the form of a questionnaire was used to find out the results. The informants were created by randomly chosen people of laic public; the criterion for the choice was the age above 18 and the wide range of age groups. The informants of the second part of the research were the nurses of home care agencies, who were chosen randomly in home care agencies in Central Bohemian Region, Prague, Brno and České Budějovice. This thesis may serve as the basis for creation of complex information resource about home care regarding history, characteristics, organization and provided care for both laic public and experts. It may serve for creation of information leaflets, brochures and internet pages. Home care is an actual topic and brings the possibility of use especially for both informed laics and experts.
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