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Measuring the burden of caring for the elderly
Mezenský, Štěpán ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Tuček, Milan (referee)
This thesis focuses on informal care and the burden of informal care. The aim is to explore the current form of informal care and to reflect on it with existing knowledge. In its first part, the thesis focuses on a description of the demographic development of the seniors, a description of informal care and the problems associated with it, solidarity, caregiving burden, and the possibilities of assistance and support for informal caregivers. Furthermore, the thesis sets out to describe what assistive technologies are, how informal carers use them and how they relieve them of the caring burden. Peripherally, the thesis also touches on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the caregiving burden. Through quantitative measurement using my own modification of the ZBI-4 questionnaire, I describe caregiving burden, taking into account basic sociodemographic data. The results show no statistically significant differences either across genders or across generations, apart from a significantly lower perceived caregiving burden for Generation X. I follow the quantitative part of the research with the qualitative part, based on semi-structured interviews. In the qualitative part, I describe the reasons for the decision for informal caregiving, its form and consequences, potential generational differences,...
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Social work in nursing homes
JENERÁLOVÁ, Lucie
The bachelor's thesis focused on social work in nursing homes deals with the life of seniors in nursing homes in relation to the satisfaction of basic life needs, the quality of the provided care of staff for clients and the implementation of social work in nursing homes located in the Vysočina region.
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The influence of a Czech home nurse in home care in Austria on the psychosocial condition of family members
PETRÁKOVÁ, Šárka
Abstract The bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of a 24 - hour home care for dependent seniors in Austria. It examines the effects of the presence of a foreign caregiver in the households of seniors on his family members, the seniors themselves and names the current problems of this specific service. The theoretical part of the thesis presents the current possibilities of senior care and providing life in dignity in old age. It is presenting the historical development in the field of engagement of foreign workers. The basic definitions of the terms migrant, commuter and job mobility are dealt with in the chapter devoted to migration. The author discusses the causes and consequences of migration in the care sector. A considerable space of the theoretical part is devoted to the analysis of specific social- legislative framework of 24 - hour home care of foreign caregivers in Austria. To build the theoretical basis of the work, not only Czech available titles, but especially German written scientific literature and professional articles and official documents of the Austrian government has been used as well. The practical part is based on a research survey, specifically a collection of field data in the form of a structured interview with open questions, which provided the essential data. This research took place in the province of Lower Austria, the region called Waldviertel. After a thorough analysis of data outputs and a comparison with the theses in the literature, it was possible to draw a conclusion to evaluate the experience of the presence of a Czech caregiver in Austrian families and identify the current problems of this specific service. The results may serve in practice as a basis for decision-making, either by care clients or by caregivers who are still considering the eventuality of their future profession in Austria.
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Difficulties in informal caregiving for older adults at home
Blehová, Ivana ; Janečková, Hana (advisor) ; Hudcová, Eliška (referee)
Difficulties in homecare(giving) for an elderly family member. This bachelor thesis focuses on the issues of home elderly care and on difficulties that are related to it. Based on available literature it presents related topics in the first part of the thesis. In the second part case studies are used to describe several practical experiences of caregivers. This thesis is based on facts about contemporary demographic development. It focuses on the aging of the population and on elderly social care. The focus is given to home elderly care and difficult aspects that are connected to it. In the practical part of the theses qualitative methods of semi-structured dialogue were used. The aim was to find out how individuals who are taking care of non-self sufficient family member experience this situation, why they chose to proceed the way they did, and if they received appropriate information about the possibilities of professional assistance. The aim is also to ascertain how the care influenced their health, financial situation and social life. The analysis of these dialogues showed that the most immense stress for a caregiver is to take care of a person with behavioural and perception disorders with whom it is hard to communicate. Caregivers who take care of such a person alone are under an even greater...
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Forms of Harmonization of Private and Work Live of the Sandwich Generation for Managers
Řehořová, Martina ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
The thesis deals with the modern phenomenon of the sandwich generation focusing on managers. First part focuses on knowledge related to demographic pressures. It also defines the role of children and senior carers in the context of social policy in the Czech Republic. Based on the initial findings of role conflict of carers and staff my research was realized and it deals with the identification of impacts of experienced situation on the individual, who simultaneously finds himself in the role of a manager and children or senior carer, in his personal and professional life. The participants of the qualitative research underwent semi- structured interviews in which thematic areas related to the causes and circumstances of their role as caregivers and chief executive were included. Data analysis showed the impacts of factors influencing harmonization on personal and professional lifes of executives in the sandwich generation. Key words: sandwich generation, carer, harmonization, senior, child, manager, personal life, work
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Psychosocial Aspects of Huntington's Disease
Uhrová, Tereza ; Roth, Jan (advisor) ; Zvolský, Petr (referee) ; Benetin, Ján (referee)
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neuro-psychiatric disease with usual onset in the middle age. The mutation, located on the short shoulder of chromosome 4, is an expansion of a nucleotide triplet, containing cytosine, adenine, guanine (CAG), with critical limit of 40+ repetitions. The principal symptoms include motor symptoms (chorea, dystonia, disorders of voluntary movements), progressive cognitive deterioration and neuropsychiatric symptoms (behaviour disorders, affective symptoms and so on). The clinical diagnosis is confirmed by a genetic test, which may also be carried out presymptomatically in offsprings of the diseased person. The objective of the 1st study consisted in the characterization of differences in psychiatric examination and neuropsychological testing among the people at risk (PAR), in whom it was recommended to delay the test, and people at risk, who were recommended to continue in the so-called predictive protocol. The total of 52 people have been examined (32 females, 20 males). In addition to the common psychiatric examination we have also administered the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-A), self-rating scale of general psychopathology (SCL- 90), three short cognitive tests - Trail making test, test of Verbal fluency and...
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Alzheimer's'disease and its'difficulty from the point of view family members
Dandová, Andrea ; Zemková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Šumníková, Pavlína (referee)
This This thesis concentrates on the issues faced by family carers, who take care of their family members diagnosed with the Alzheimer's disease. Special education also relates to seniors and its principles can therefore be used in this age group. The goal of this thesis is to discover and describe challenges faced by the family carers while they support their family members with Alzheimer's. The thesis focuses on the Alzheimer's disease itself, its causes and risk factors. The thesis also concentrates on the origins of the disease, its stages, diagnostics and therapy. Next, psychic and physical burdens of the family carers are depicted. The thesis also introduces organizations that specialize in providing informal support for the family carers and relief care, and disease related legislation is listed. The necessary research data were collected through semi-structured interviews with direct family carers. KEYWORDS Alzheimerś disease, caregiver, home care, family member, dementia
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Long-term carers as clients of social work
RYSKOVÁ, Kateřina
This bachelor´s thesis deals with the subject of long-term carers. It aims to discover whether long-term carers consider themselves to be clients of social work and what kind of help they expect to receive from a social worker. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on scientific literature and publications which deal with the topic of long-term caregiving. They are mostly literature or publications containing terms such as formal care, informal care, caregiver motivation, caregiver burden or social work, social worker. I chose the strategy of qualitative research, namely the method of a semistructured interview. The interview I have led with informants consisted of 11 questions. The purpose of these interviews was to find out who a social worker is according to longterm carers, whether they consider themselves to be clients of a social worker and what they expect from him/her. After obtaining the necessary information the interviews were transcribed and analysed through clustering. It ensued from the results of my research that long-term caregivers could not define a social worker nor his/her duties. Social workers were often confused with carers or social service workers. It was further suggested that long-term carers considered themselves to be social workers despite not knowing what his/her work includes. They expect a social worker to help them with taking care of a close person, ensuring hygiene and relieve a close person being taken care of of his/her pain.
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