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Knowledge of outsider public about services which is offer of home care agency
LENKOVÁ, Klára
Home care is a modern form of health and social care which has been provided in the Czech Republic since 1990. It is focused on persons who would be hospitalized if it were not for home care. The costs are fully covered by health insurance. Those who make use of this service are people of all ages, with various diagnoses and medical indications. Home care is focused mainly on health support and maintenance, health restoration and self-administration development, pain management of incurable patients and terminal care to ensure patients meeting their death fearless and reconciled. The objective of this thesis is to learn more about the public awareness of services provided by home care agencies. The other objective is to find out if nurses working for these agencies promote the home care service well enough. The data collection was carried out by the questionnaire method and the method of public inquiry. The first sample was a group of people living in the South Bohemian region aged 18 49 years. The second sample was a group of people living in the South Bohemian region aged over 50. These two groups were supposed to fill in the same type of a questionnaire. The third sample were nurses working in home care agencies in the South Bohemian region who were handed out inquiry sheets. The hypothesis I {--} the public are not informed enough about services provided by home care agencies {--} was confirmed. The hypothesis II {--} there are differencies in awareness of the public in relation to the age of respondents -was confirmed. The hypothesis III {--} nurses promote home care services only among their patients {--} was not confirmed. It is advisable to hospitalize patients only when it is inevitable. In other cases there is an option to make use of home care services. The aim of my thesis was to bring up a survey of services provided by home care agencies and give some suggestions for the awareness of the public to be enhanced.

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