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Perception of dementia by professional carers
Osúchová, Veronika ; Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Numerato, Dino (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused on professional carers, who are trained experts employed in specialised institutions that take care about more than one person with dementia in one group. The professional carers are under pressure during this time and there is a certain tension between reaching the maximal possible high quality care and growing number of clients in institutions specialised in dementia and dementia discourse, in which framework especially negative connotations are highlighted. It is just an approach of the carers that plays an important role in this issue. The work with dementia discourse and dealing with the above mentioned issue from the side of carers has a considerable impact on functioning, health condition and quality of life of individuals with dementia. Their dealing with the issue can influence strongly and steer the running an institution and the quality of life of such an institution clients. A difficult situation of professional carers also influences the carers themselves, their concepts of this illness and concepts of their own ageing. This diploma thesis is aimed at an analysis how the pictures of dementia are constructed by professional carers who take care about clients with various forms of dementia in the long term. In the framework of this thesis, their subjective...
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Working conditions of employees in the selected home for the elderly
Jelínek, Jan ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Tůmová, Kateřina (referee)
This bachelor's thesis investigates working environment of employees of one particular retirement home. The jobs being looked at are as follows - social worker, activation worker and certified nursing assistant. These spots are divided into two groups, the more professional and creative one and the social one. I define the working environments through qualitative semi-structured interviews. To discover the environment in question, it is important to describe the content of the job and the tasks that one doing it is obliged to fulfil, the well-being of the ones doing it and the personal relationships in the workplace. I discover the characteristics of the jobs taking internal regulations, legal definition of the job and interviews into account. Using the workplace wellbeing theory, which consists of five basic dimensions, I describe the working conditions of the jobs in question. Those dimensions are used to examine the aspects that have major influence on the workers' wellbeing. Those are the ones that concern the employees' career ambitions, physical demands on them and the influence they have on their physical state, how the job is socially, how much the workers make for a living and how they fit in their communities. I will study personal ties between employees through the theory of positive...
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Role Health Social Work in the Context of Long Term Care
KREJNÍKOVÁ, Šárka
Long-term care is currently a topical issue, not only in the context of an ageing population and care for people with disabilities, but also in the context of informal care. Formal long-term care includes health and social services, as well as community services and institutional care, including treatments used to stop or reverse the progression of illness or disability. Informal long-term care is provided by family members, friends or neighbours. A health social worker is an integral part of a multidisciplinary team in the context of long-term care provision.
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Needs of Informal Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's Disease in the ORP Písek
RÉDLOVÁ, Žaneta
The meaning of informal care grows with regard to the demographic changes in the society and the role of these caregivers is irreplaceable within the system of long-term care. The diploma thesis reflects the current situation in this area with the objective of mapping out the needs of informal caregivers of people with Alzheimer's Disease in the ORP Písek. The theoretical part of this diploma thesis is supported by a number of surveys that bring an interesting perspective to different areas of domestic care with regard to current trends in senior patient care. Attention is also focused on the characteristics of Alzheimer´s and on the mentioned municipalities with extended powers. To reach the objective, a qualitative research strategy was chosen, using semi-structured interviews with eight informal caretakers who were taking care of individuals suffering from Alzheimer´s in the chosen area. With regard to the given area, also the range of shared care and availability of formal services from the perspective of caregivers themselves, were the object of research. Data analysis was carried out using grounded theory mehtod and the result of axial coding is a paradigmatic model focused around central category - the needs of the informal caregivers. The research has proven that the needs of informal caregivres are changeable depending on the phase of Alzheimer´s disease. Meanwhile in the beginning needs of informative character arise, later they modify due to financial and time pressure. At the same time, research has proven a disproportionate offer of services in the ORP Písek and this fact is reflected in the quality of support network. Informal caregivers need to know that they are not alone in this and that there is an individual or a service that might substitute them in case they are absent.
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Comparison of outreach social and health care services for people with dementia in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands
Rooijakkers, Jitka ; Povolná, Pavla (advisor) ; Mertl, Jiří (referee)
The master thesis deals with the quality of care provided to people with dementia and their informal carers. The aim is to compare health care and social services for this group of patients in two countries - the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. The first part defines the dementia syndrome, its diagnosis, symptoms, treatment and management of dementia. This is followed by the topic of palliative and hospice care and euthanasia The thesis also includes the concept of long-term care, which is purposely limited in this thesis to only that part which is provided either by a health service provider or by a social service in the patient's/service user's home environment. The next section refers to laws, regulations and policy documents that relate to the topic of care for people with dementia. The last part of the theoretical definition of this thesis describes the health and social service system in the Netherlands, including reference to strategic documents that shape the care of people with dementia and their informal carers. The empirical part includes the elaboration and analysis of qualitative research, which I conducted through interviews directly with informal carers.
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Case study of a retirement home in Central Bohemian Region in the times of pandemic of covid-19 disease
Jandová, Martina ; Hasmanová Marhánková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Tučková, Anna (referee)
JANDOVÁ, Martina. Případová studie domova pro seniory ve Středočeském kraji v době pandemie covidu-19. Praha, 2022. 65 s. Bakalářská práce (Bc). Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut sociologických studií, Katedra sociologie. Vedoucí diplomové práce PhDr. Mgr. Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Ph.D. Abstract This case study deals with the course of the pandemic of covid-19 disease in a retirement home in Central Bohemian Region from the institutional perspective. The aim of this paper is to describe the reality of local staff in different work positions in the facility between years 2020 and 2022 in relation to unexpected new event and to shed light on how the pandemic has affected the form and content of social care. The research is mainly based on personal statements of local staff across hierarchical structure. The second pillar of the research is a content analysis of internal and external documents regarding pandemic restrictions in the facility during the crisis. The hierarchical structure of work positions in the institution is crucial for this thesis because I have detected following findings based on the qualitative analysis of primary and secondary data: during pandemic the retirement home as a "total institution" is transformed as care stuff members become "prisoners" of the...
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Taking care of an elder relative: options in Russia
Kuznetsova, Sofya ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Jusić, Mirna (referee)
The topic of care for seniors considers a variety of aspects related not only to the elderly people themselves but also to their relatives or other caretakers and, usually, to the institutions. Those are, for instance, the institutions providing long-term care at home or in special facilities. In the case of Russia, there are two main dimensions of long-term care for elderly people. The first option is care provided by the state, and the second one is private care provided by non- governmental facilities or by people not belonging to any company. The following thesis aims to research which options for elderly long-term care provided by the state are available for people. The paper consists of an introduction, theoretical framework, methodological part, analytical part, discussion, and a conclusion. Using familisation and defamilisation theory, this thesis investigates and analyses the elderly care options provided by the state in Russia via conducting document analysis. Keywords: elderly care, long-term care, elderly people, Russia
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Obstacles and barriers in informal care development in longterm care for elderly in the region of Pardubice
Wohnerová, Monika ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Čabanová, Bohumila (referee)
The target goal of this work is to identify the obstacles and barriers in informal care development in the context of long-term care for the elderly in the Pardubice region. These can be divided into two categories, firstly, the problems which informal long-term care for the elderly raise, secondly, the enhancement of the instruments belonging to social and health policy, which should moderate these difficulties. First of all, this work focuses on the fundamental issues of long-term care and its division into formal and informal aspects. Furthermore, it outlines the demands of informal care and arrangements implemented and intended for the support of this care type. Numerous difficulties arose on the basis of obtained the information from comprehensive interviews with the respective participants, those being problems of physical, psychological and financial character, lack of free time and partnership and family relationship issues. Several factors influence the development of informal care and the extent of support from public policy, these factors being such as the health of the elderly, assistance in the care from environs, vocational, housing and the financial situations of the persons involved, together with the attitudes of the seniors, the individual values and decisions of informal carers....
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The Informal Care for People with Disabilities in the Czech Republic
Hošťálková, Jitka ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Háva, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the system of the informal long-term care for people with disabilities in the Czech Republic. The first aim of the diploma thesis is to describe this non-conceptually solved issue and confirm the European prevalent tendencies to refamilization and deinstitutionalization in the Czech Republic. Author tries to identify the main problems within the system of informal long-term care through interviews conducted with informal carers and workers from selected social services. The diploma thesis emphasizes the target population of informal carers, who face many obstacles, whether it is the cooperation between the systems of formal and informal care, lack of finances, deterioration of quality of life or insufficient recognition of the status of informal carers from the society and the state. Informal carers are presented on the basis of theoretical perspectives as well as the results of conducted research as the invisible stakeholders of the Czech public policy.
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Financing of social care services for the elderly in the Czech Republic - current problems and challenges
Červenková, Vladimíra ; Mašková, Pavla (advisor) ; Bareš, Pavel (referee)
The thesis "Financing of Social Care services for the Elderly in the Czech Republic - Current Problems and Challenges" deals with analysis of system of social care services for the elderly in view of the fact that the current financing form is subject to criticism for its inefficiency. The aim of this thesis is to critically reflect changes in the provision and financing of social care services for the elderly in the Czech Republic after 2007 in the context of current challenges related to long-term social care and health care. The thesis in its introduction first deals with the formulation of the research problem, deals with particular targets, research questions and the methods of data collection, which are the methods of analysis and public policy making and qualitative research methods. It also discusses the theoretical background of social services and their financing. The next chapter of the thesis deals with the system development of social services and changes in the provision and financing of social care services, which occurred in connection with the adoption of Act No. 108/2006 Coll., On social services. The following chapter deals with analysis of the financing form of social care services in terms of financial resources and problems of financing these services through the care...
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