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The Use of Selected Techniques in Working with Clients in a Home with Special Regime
MACEŠKOVÁ, Eliška
This bachelor thesis deals with the use of selected techniques in working with clients in a home with special regime. The aim of the bachelor 's thesis was to map how employees of homes with special regime use selected techniques in working with seniors with dementia syndrome. This is a topical issue, as the number of people with this disease who require special care is constantly increasing. The bachelor thesis consists of two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part focuses on the description of the issue and the definition of important terms based on literature and legislation - dementia, services suitable for seniors with dementia, selected techniques in working with seniors with dementia etc. In the practical part, the work deals with research. The research mapped the use of individual work techniques - basal stimulation, sensory activation, psychobiographical model of care Erwin Böhm in homes with a special regime in the Central Bohemian Region, and this part presents the results achieved in the research. The strategy of qualitative research was chosen for the elaboration of the research in the practical part of this bachelor 's thesis. Within this strategy, the method of questioning was chosen together with the technique of semi-structured interview. Research has shown, for example, that employees use the technique of basal stimulation, sensory activation and the psychobiographical model of care Erwin Böhm in harmony with each other. The results of the research will serve as feedback to the informants involved in the research and as a subject for possible streamlining in work with selected techniques in homes with a special regime.
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The selected methods of social work with clients self - non sufficient in health care facilities
Kiliánová, Hana ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
The main goal of the thesis entitled "The selected methods of social work with clients self-non sufficient in health care facilities" was to describe and to analyze methods used in activation of the elderly suffering from dementia. It draws a comparison of different settings and explores workers's attitude to the methods of activation. The text of the thesis was mapped out into five chapters. The first chapter was set into the context of old age and ageing. The second chapter is concerned with the issues of self-sufficiency and dependency of old age and other related issues. The topic of the third chapter is old age in relation with memory. It defines memory and memory disorders in the elderly suffering from dementia. The fourth chapter is crucial and gives an idea of non-pharmacological and other possible activities which are eligible for application in practice and are intended to reduce cognitive disorders of cognitive functions and behavior disorders. The theoretical part enters into research carried out in four facilities which care for clients with dementia. The research section is represented by a qualitative research where methods of a half structured interview and observation were opted for. The interviews were realized with eight practicing experts. The outcomes gathered from the...
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Influence of sensory activation in retirement homes from the perspective of nurses
SOUKUPOVÁ, Iveta
A population aging and extending life is more and more current topic in medicine and other spheres. This topic is associated with dementia, which concerns a significant part of seniors and in retirement house we meet people with dementia more often. Becuase of this, we should try some new ways to care about seniors with dementia like sensory activation. This bachelor thesis deals with two aims - What nurses think about this method and if this method is suitable for elders. We determined two research questions based on these aims: 'What nurses think about using sensory activation method?' and 'How sensory activation helps to seniors?' We chose quality research with the form semi-structured interview to get results. According to results, we can say the sensory activation is very useful. It helps with physical and mental health and it slows down progression of dementia disease. All of these is beneficial not only for the senior but also for the nursing staff. Nurses in retirement house really like this method. They were satisfied not only at workshop of sensory activation where they got much more information about this method, but they learned also how to use it in practice. Now they can observe the results in clients in retirements house too. The results of this bachelor thesis can be used for the better know-how of sensory activation for nurses and other non-medical workers in retirement house. It can be use like educational material for students of nursing school or other medical schools.
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Activating the Elderly with Dementia in Retirement Homes
Maléřová, Barbora ; Palánová, Tereza (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
The presented Bachelor's Thesis deals with the issue of activation of clients with dementia in retirement homes. It searches for the definition of the terms "senior" and "old age", traces the psychologic and physical changes associated with old age, explores the life of seniors in long-stay institutions, sketches out the recent demographic trends in the Czech Republic and adresses the term "ageism". The thesis then turns to the explanation of the term "dementia" along with its most frequent symptoms, types and causes including the commonly used methods of its diagnosis. The thesis includes a chapter dealing with the current social system of care for seniors in the Czech Republic, describing the most frequently used methods of activization with a special accent on clients with dementia, activating therapy and Montessori method. The last chapter of this work consists of author's personal experience with work in two long-stay institutions with three casual studies added as practical examples and illustrations of the issue and comparison of two elderly jouses and its' activation therapies. The aim of the thesis is to highlight and discuss the potential benefit of activation therapy for increasing the quality of life of seniors with dementia in long-stay institutions and consider the particularities in...
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Social work in homes for the elderly
LAIEROVÁ, Jana
The bachelor's thesis deals with social work and sensory activation in a selected home for the elderly. The first part focuses on the old age and aging, the demographic development of aging in society in the Czech Republic, the concept of age with its accompanying changes. The following chapter describes the needs of seniors that are linked with social services for the elderly. The last chapter of this part of the thesis focuses on the activation on the general level and then on the sensual activation per se. The second part of the thesis deals with the concept of sensual activation and its use in a selected home for the elderly.
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The selected methods of social work with clients self - non sufficient in health care facilities
Kiliánová, Hana ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
The main goal of the thesis entitled "The selected methods of social work with clients self-non sufficient in health care facilities" was to describe and to analyze methods used in activation of the elderly suffering from dementia. It draws a comparison of different settings and explores workers's attitude to the methods of activation. The text of the thesis was mapped out into five chapters. The first chapter was set into the context of old age and ageing. The second chapter is concerned with the issues of self-sufficiency and dependency of old age and other related issues. The topic of the third chapter is old age in relation with memory. It defines memory and memory disorders in the elderly suffering from dementia. The fourth chapter is crucial and gives an idea of non-pharmacological and other possible activities which are eligible for application in practice and are intended to reduce cognitive disorders of cognitive functions and behavior disorders. The theoretical part enters into research carried out in four facilities which care for clients with dementia. The research section is represented by a qualitative research where methods of a half structured interview and observation were opted for. The interviews were realized with eight practicing experts. The outcomes gathered from the...
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Leisure time activities in the Home for Elderly Tachov, Panenská
SLÁMOVÁ, Kamila
The aim of this bachelor thesis called "Leisure activities for Panenská nursing home in Tachov" is to map the satisfaction of the house's clients with the leisure activities provided by the nursing home. This thesis comprises of two parts - theoretical and research. The theoretical part copes with the ageing problematics, with the needs of old people, their leisure time and leisure activities and certain acquisition programs. This thesis aims generally on the problematics with the focus on nursing homes, especially Panenská nursing home in Tachov. The main method is the qualitative research. The target, methodology and schedule are further described in the thesis. The used methods of qualitative research is the interviewing with semi-structured interviews. The interviews were held with the clients of Panenská nursing home in Tachov. The research data files has been chosen by the intentional quoting choice. As a secondary method, the framework data analysis technique, word-for-word transcription and the cluster-creating method has been chosen. The research has shown that the clients are satisfied with the leisure activities provided by the nursing home but they would like to introduce several new activities -handcrafting and creative writing especially. The extension of the scale of the activities would lead to the fulfilment of the needs of the clients and furthermore to more effective use of their leisure time. All the above mentioned information are possible to further use as an information source about the leisure activities in Panenská nursing home in Tachov. This bachelor thesis will be used as a feedback for the mentioned nursing home. It might help not just to improved the function of the nursing home but to greater satisfaction of its clients as well.
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Sensory Activation for Seniors
ZICHOVÁ, Eliška
Numerous approaches are used for sensory activation of seniors, including multisensoric activation performed by enriched space of Snoezelen rooms or by Montessori techniques. Positive effects of multisensoric activation on the psychic and emotional state of seniors were reported and this is also true for seniors with Alzheimer dementia. An important component of multisensoric stimulation is the interpersonal contact between the senior and the person performing activation program. The theoretical part of my bachelor thesis was aimed to describe particular techniques of sensory activation and their use and benefits for seniors. The aim of the practical part was to find the most appropriate forms of sensory activation (focused to particular senses) which can be used for the seniors living in the Nursing Home for Seniors Bethesda in Prague. The satisfaction of seniors with various forms of sensory activation was also evaluated. Qualitative research was performed in nine seniors (eight women and one man aged 65-93 years) between April and July 2014. The health and social documentation available in Bethesda senior home revealed that the values of Mini-Mental Sate Examination (MMSE) found in these seniors were in the range between 12-27 points. Each senior participated in 10 activation sessions, each consisting of four different tasks focused on particular senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste). It was evident from my research that most of the tasks (except of text type recognition) were found to be appropriate for sensory activation of seniors in both individual or group activation programs. However, repeated task explanation, assistance of graphical clues and increased patience were necessary preconditions for the success of seniors with lower MMSE values. The tasks oriented on the touch were better evaluated by seniors than the tasks directed to other senses. It was evident that the tasks requiring the search of the links between presented objects as well as the tasks considering the type of reproduced text or song names were found to be rather complicated. These tasks were especially difficult for seniors with lower MMSE. I have also seen some difficulties in the tasks related to the taste and/or smell because these senses were attenuated in certain seniors. However, when I examined the tasks based upon a multisensoric stimulation (sweet dessert preparation), I was surprised by a good performance of all seniors irrespective of their sense defects or lower MMSE. Therefore it is necessary to care about the broad variety of the tasks included into the activation program and to adapt the demands of such programs to capabilities of participating seniors. Obtained results about sensory activation might be utilized in the care of seniors in nursing homes to improve their free time utilization. It might also facilitate the integration of seniors into their new living and social environment. This could support the maintenance of their personal, social and factual integrity.
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The concept of sense activation and the changes in the care of a patient with a dementia disease.
PROKOPOVÁ, Martina
Dementia is becoming one of the most common disease in an old age. It is a set of symptoms which is created on the basis of the chronic or progressive brain disease. The most common cause of dementia is the Alzheimer´s disease. Currently there is no cure for dementia but it is possible to slow down the progress and make that the life of a patient better. The sensory activation is a concept which serves to seniors and mainly to people with dementia disease. Among people with this disease, the sensory stimulation is used mainly for strengthening and the usage of existing competencies. It´s main objective is to keep or refresh a patient´s own social and substantive competencies. It is important to use this method and provide a patient with dementia with honourable, active and meaningful old age. The bachelor thesis is divided into two parts, a theoretical and an empirical one. The theoretical part contains information dealing with the problem of dementia. There we will learn what the dementia is, what is the cause of it, how the dementia is diagnosed and what the communication with people suffering with dementia should be like. Then the theoretical part contains information about the concept of the sensory activation. We will learn what is the goal of it, we will find some information about the tools used for the sensory activation, it´s planning and the subsequent realization. There is a chapter called "a human biography" which is very important for the method of sensory activation. In the next part there are described some other models of caretaking, for example the model of professor Erwin Bohm and the model of Validation by Naomi Feil.
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Spiritual needs in the new concepts of care
VEJŠICKÁ, Milena
The work focuses on the spiritual needs of seniors and their saturation in modern concepts of senior care. The work is theoretically aimed to clarify how the spiritual needs of seniors are reflected in the modern concepts of care. The first chapter is devoted to the old age and aging, it describes the changes associated with aging, characterizes the term dementia and describes the societal view on aging. The second chapter deals with the characteristics of the basic human needs. In the third chapter the focus lies on the developmental tasks of aging and the seniors´ adaptation to age as a spiritual task. The fourth chapter describes the concept of spirituality and constitutes the fundamental spiritual needs of seniors. The fifth chapter focuses on selected modern concepts of senior care. These are the Sensory activation by Lore Wehner, psychobiografic care model by professor Böhm, the concept of basal stimulation and the validation method Naomi Feil. The final chapter assesses the significance of spiritual needs and their saturation within the mentioned concepts.
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