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Specifics of Care for the Elderly
MIKUDOVÁ, Dita
This bachelor thesis called Specifics of Care for the Elderly is focused on the elderly and their status in contemporary society, the possibilities which the elderly have at present, effective attitude to them and communication with the elderly. The thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part has six chapters. The first chapter deals with terms like gerontology and geriatrics, it describes process of growing old and the term called age, its division and displays of age. This chapter also defines the term like the elderly, their needs and demography of age in the way as specialists perceive and describe them. The second chapter concentrates on social politics, its division and speaks about welfare services intended for the elderly. The third chapter specifies elderly care benefit and conditions for meeting the requirements to getting this benefit, dependence degrees, amount of benefit for age group older than eighteen years. It also gives and information about who is beneficiary, the process of paying out the benefit and the proceedings about the claim to the benefit. The fourth chapter is focused on the term of communication, it defines social communication, non-verbal and verbal communication. The chapter also deals with communication principles with the elderly including pensioners with hearing or visual impairment. There are described mistakes and obstacles which may appear in communication. The fifth chapter looks into leisure time and its functions; it defines the leisure time of the elderly including preparation for old age. The sixth chapter speaks about medical assessment service, the disability and its appraisal. In the empirical part there is determined the goal of this thesis which should lead to finding out how social system works with the elderly, how the elderly are secured by the state and if there is satisfactory number of welfare centres intended for the elderly. The thesis is also aimed at life quality of the elderly in home environment and in homefortheelderly as well as at self-sufficiency in chosen group of the elderly. There were established three research questions which came out from the research goal. The first question should reveal the status of the elderly in contemporary society and if they may influence it on their own. The second question asked for the place where the individuals want to live. The third research question focused on sufficiency of respondents. For meeting the target it was selected the qualitative strategy. It was used method of questioning with the half-structured interviews technique. The interviews were answered by eight seniors, specifically by seven women and one man. The research brought expected as well as unexpected findings. Example given the surprising result was high awareness of welfare centres owing to the fact welfare centres do not make self-presentation so much. The second astonishing thing lay in the majority of the elderly wants to build up new spaces intended for welfare services. The research also confirmed my personal expectation which is opinion of respondents that status of the elderly in contemporary society is not favourable.
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