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Crisis of informal carers in the care of seniors at home
Hájková, Kateřina ; Havránková, Olga (advisor) ; Dragomirecká, Eva (referee)
This thesis deals with informal (family) carers who provide for the care of an elderly person in their home environment. It focuses on selected moments of crises (motivation, accepting support, financing, impacts) based on the analysis of documents and the author's two-year working experience in this field. The objective of this thesis is to find out how the carers cope with such crises and what strategies they choose in their provision of care. The theoretical part of the thesis defines basic terms related to old age and their values, informal carers and related areas of care, including pre-defined crises. The research part is divided into methodology, in which part the author describes her methods of obtaining data through semi-structured interviews; and into the empiric part, which is based on the statements of the carers interviewed. Keywords: informal carers, family carers, senior, crisis
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The Support of family carers ( experience from Diaconia ECCB courses - Take care at home)
Lengálová, Michaela ; Janečková, Hana (advisor) ; Čížková, Hana (referee)
Caring for a loved one is nothing new in our contemporary society. We deal with the topics of caring in the family, the motivation of such a decision, the positives or negatives of this choice. Why do more and more people choose to care for a loved one "at home"? What is the state support provided to family carers and which social policy instruments does the state use? The aim of the Diakonie ČCE-Care at Home project is to comprehensively support lay family caregivers who take care of their loved ones, not only the elderly, people with disabilities, children with disabilities, but also cancer patients. Through information, counseling and educational activities, we provide family caregivers with the psycho-social and spiritual support they need when caring for their loved ones. Not only do the people receiving care in the home environment have their own needs, but so do family caregivers, whose way of saturating their needs changes the moment they begin caregiving. In general, we are concerned with the needs and their fulfilment of the patients themselves, i.e. those who are dependent on care. But we must not neglect family caregivers, since their physical and mental well-being is a prerequisite for being able to care for their loved ones because they have a very difficult task ahead of them, which...
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Alzheimer's Disease and Family Caregiver Burden. Impact of Alzheimer's Disease on Family Caregiver Psychosocial Health.
Zvěřová, Martina ; Jirák, Roman (advisor) ; Holmerová, Iva (referee) ; Zvolský, Petr (referee)
Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive, irreversible neurodegenerative illness and the most common of the dementing disorders. Only few diseases disrupt patients and their relatives so completely or for so long a period of time as Alzheimer 's. Caring is held to be very demanding and emotionally involving. Caregiver burden has been defined as a multidimensional response to emotional, social, physical, psychological, and financial stressors associated with the caregiving experience. The objective of the 1st study was to assess the degree of burden and its possible change in family caregivers of the long-term sick family member with progressive Alzheimer's disease during eight-month monitoring. In addition to the common psychiatric examination the Mini- Mental State Examination (MMSE) was administered in patients to indicate the severity of the dementia and the Zarit Burden Interview was administered in caregivers to assessed degree of burden. The total of 60 people have been examined - 30 patients with AD and 30 their caregivers (24 females, 6 males) were recruited from the Department of Psychiatry, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague. At the beginning of the study there were 18 patients with mild stage of AD (60%), 11 patients suffered...
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Crisis of informal carers in the care of seniors at home
Hájková, Kateřina ; Havránková, Olga (advisor) ; Dragomirecká, Eva (referee)
This thesis deals with informal (family) carers who provide for the care of an elderly person in their home environment. It focuses on selected moments of crises (motivation, accepting support, financing, impacts) based on the analysis of documents and the author's two-year working experience in this field. The objective of this thesis is to find out how the carers cope with such crises and what strategies they choose in their provision of care. The theoretical part of the thesis defines basic terms related to old age and their values, informal carers and related areas of care, including pre-defined crises. The research part is divided into methodology, in which part the author describes her methods of obtaining data through semi-structured interviews; and into the empiric part, which is based on the statements of the carers interviewed. Keywords: informal carers, family carers, senior, crisis
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