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Death in literature versus the face of death in current society
POLÁČKOVÁ, Ludmila
This diploma thesis looks into the issues of death and dying. Based on a chosen work of fiction, it endeavours to remit the topic of fear of dying and concerns on the possibilities of how to deal with it from points of view of a dying person as well as that of an accompanying one. By using and connecting approaches used in sociology of literature and social work, it aims to appraise the benefit of reading fiction on the given topic for social workers in their professional as well as personal life. The work of fiction therefore serves as an alternative receptive material. By its interpretation, a social worker or layman can gain a more profound knowledge of current social issues, which the last matters of a human unquestionably belong to.
The Personnel Dilemmas about Home Hospic Care in the Area of Havlíčkův Brod
POKORNÁ, Kateřina
The thesis discusses dilemmas situations of The hospice staff in Havlíčkův Brod. The occurrence of these situations concerning a social worker, medical and caring staff was determined. The aim of the thesis was to find out how these dilemma situations are solved. The theoretical part of this work describes issues related to the hospice care. It defines the history hospice care and the current hospice care in the Czech republic. The work is also dedicated to the palliative care, mainly to the hospice home care. It considers closely issues of the death, dying, dying person and also his relatives, who take an irreplaceable role in this process. There is also the important description of the multidisciplinary team which creates base of providing palliative care for dying people and their relatives. At the end of the theoretical part, I concentrate on dilemmas and problematic situations. The practical part came from the quality research. The tool of this research was the questioning and the method of the instruction interview. There were three participants in the research. The data processing from the interviews was evaluated by the method Open coding. It was proved by the research that every dilemma situations was always solved on an individual basis of the hospice home care staff with the respect to the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual side of the client and his relatives. The caring staff try to support the idea of hospice movement which is raising public awareness of their work among professional and non-professional people. They acknowledge the teamwork, they solve the problematic situation with the intervision, they use their own experience and they improve their specialization by education. It is clear from the research that the staff need to be supported by their families to cope with difficult situations and also the faith in the sense of their work gives them strenght.

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