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Spiritual needs in the new concepts of care
VEJŠICKÁ, Milena
The work focuses on the spiritual needs of seniors and their saturation in modern concepts of senior care. The work is theoretically aimed to clarify how the spiritual needs of seniors are reflected in the modern concepts of care. The first chapter is devoted to the old age and aging, it describes the changes associated with aging, characterizes the term dementia and describes the societal view on aging. The second chapter deals with the characteristics of the basic human needs. In the third chapter the focus lies on the developmental tasks of aging and the seniors´ adaptation to age as a spiritual task. The fourth chapter describes the concept of spirituality and constitutes the fundamental spiritual needs of seniors. The fifth chapter focuses on selected modern concepts of senior care. These are the Sensory activation by Lore Wehner, psychobiografic care model by professor Böhm, the concept of basal stimulation and the validation method Naomi Feil. The final chapter assesses the significance of spiritual needs and their saturation within the mentioned concepts.
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The Elderly and Spirituality: Spiritual Needs in Daily Life
SUCHOMELOVÁ, Věra
The currenly growing preference for "active aging" aims to promote the longest possible physical and mental vitality. Caring for the spiritual development and spiritual needs of older people is usually thought to be a private matter, or an area within the competence of churches, and related to traditionally religious older people. With regard to the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual unity of the person, it is evident that spirituality ? and spiritual needs as its expression ? belong in the life of every individual, though it is primarily an individual experience linked to a particular personality and life history. Through spirituality they seek to answer questions relating to the purpose and pursuit of life, to higher values, to the processing of suffering and evil, and to some questions having eschatological character. This dissertation defines spirituality's everyday place on the path to a good life in old age. The empirical part of the dissertation is a qualitative study called Spiritual Needs in the Daily Life of the Elderly in Southern Bohemia. The first part shows the development of religiosity or spirituality of two dozen South Bohemians over seventy-five years, focusing on the period of early religious socialization, stages of working life under the rule of Communism, and the present form of religiosity or spirituality. The second part presents a possible typology of their fundamental spiritual needs: dignity, sense of continuity in ones life story, hope, faith and love. On the basis of these findings, recommendations are then put forward for pastoral, social, and geragogical practices.
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Spiritual service in the home for the elderly in Jindřichův Hradec
HOUSEROVÁ, Lucie
The spiritual care in all Elderly Houses is perceived as a part of total care of clients. Contemporary holistic interpretation distinguish biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimension of human person. All these spheres form a complex, are inseparable and influence each other. The duties of care of clients are characterized not only as a care of biological needs but also as a help in solving social, psychological needs and an assistance in filling of the spiritual needs. The spiritual needs of each person and it would be a failure to think, that the spiritual needs are only for believer human people. The rate of satisfying these needs is changing during client´s life and present foreign researches indicate, that the need of spiritual is increased in old age and in illness. The clients can this spiritual care seek out when they need stimulation in exacting part of their life, they want to talk about spiritual or existential topics or when they are interested in various churches. In some countries is already common that the hospital employs own priest or a hospital chaplain. In our republic the installation of hospital chaplain is also started to discuss, even some hospitals employ the chaplains. The target of this bachelor´s work is to map the offer of spiritual care in Elderly House in Jindřichův Hradec, if these services are used there and which the most frequent spiritual services the clients use. Work found out which the spiritual services are interested and how many clients use them. And also from the clergyman´s side indicated which the spiritual services are offered to the clients and from the side of the social worker found out that the majority of clients, who are coming to the Elderly House, is informed, that the spiritual services are running there and he or she can use them. The hypotheses were verified by quantity study. In order to find patient´s interest of satisfying their spiritual needs was used the method of controlled talk and the same method was used in the case of talk with the clergyman and the social worker.
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Adolescent needs of low-theshold club Oráč
BENEŠ, Luděk
The thesis deals with low-threshold youth work in the context of salesian pedagogy. Using secondary analysis examines the needs of adolescents recorded in official documents of low-threshold club Oráč. Needs are classified into the system of needs and research results are used to a comprehensive view of the declared needs of adolescents visiting low-threshold club of Salesian center in České Budějovice in 2012.
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Satisfaction of Spiritual Needs of In-Patients
ŠROTOVÁ, Jana
According to holistic philosophy, the current trend in the care for patients is satisfying their needs. The problem is that members of medical staff perceive certain needs easier than others, and automatically focus on professional care mainly for biological needs of in-patients. This thesis attempts to prove that even though the spiritual needs of patients are naturally below other needs, they cannot be ignored because the peace of mind of in-patients plays a significant role in their treatment. The theoretic part outlines spirituality as a constant need of all people, and tries to distinguish it from religion. The questions about the meaning and essence of human existence are rooted in the minds of all people. Some people are more sensitive to them, while others don{\crq}t perceive them. When seeking the truth and answers, people often identify themselves with ideas already expressed and professed. If a person looking for answers joins people with similar views and persuasion, he or she becomes a member of some religion, church, or community. The problem of the medical staff is that they reduce satisfaction of the spiritual needs of these people to mere respect for the required liturgy, which is extremely valuable and necessary, but it should not be confused with the needs of human spirituality, as mentioned above. In-patients need to be treated sensitively by the medical staff and to be accepted without reservations just as they are.
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The Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the South Bohemia region
HRUBÁ, Jitka
Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the South Bohemian Region In contemporary holistic perspective, we see man as an integrated unity existing and functioning in four dimensions. These are biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions. All these spheres create a whole; they are inseparable and they influence each other. Therefore, caring for the ill can be characterized as a combination of these aspects {--} taking care of his biological needs, assistance in his social needs, identification and fulfilling of his psychological needs and help in meeting his spiritual needs. Spiritual needs are inherent in man{\crq}s nature and so it would be erroneous to suppose that they are present and pronounced only in people who are believers. The intensity of the urge to satisfy these needs changes during life. Research done on this topic has revealed that this kind of need intensifies in old age and illness. In some countries, it is already common that hospitals employ spiritual workers or hospital chaplains. In the Czech Republic, there has been a discussion going on regarding the introduction of the hospital chaplain function and several hospitals have one already. The goal of this work is to present an overview of the offer and ways of providing spiritual care in the individual hospitals in the South Bohemian region and to find out whether the offer of spiritual care in these hospitals corresponds with the needs and interest of the patients. The work should also find out what kind of spiritual assistance the patients are interested in {--} whether they would welcome if the hospitals employed their own chaplains or if regular visit of a clergyman suffice, and also, who should perform the role of the hospital chaplain {--} whether a clergyman or a qualified layman. The hypotheses will be verified through a quantitative research. To find out the intensity and kind of interest of patients in satisfying their spiritual needs and to ascertain the level of their satisfaction with offered services, a method of questionning will be used. The research will be conducted through a standardized questionnaire and a guided interview with patients who are unable to fill it in. Possible ways of satisfying spiritual needs will be assessed by the method of questionning through guided interviews with head nurses in the individual hospitals in the South Bohemian region.
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Spiritual Needs of Hospitalized Patients
SENDLEROVÁ, Klára
This Bachelor`s thesis has the title "Spiritual Needs of Hospitalized Patients." The work endeavors to capture the spiritual needs of hospitalized patients and the way they cope with their illness in relation with their religious belief; whether religious belief plays an important role in their lives. The theoretical part deals with human needs in general. It is followed by the characteristics of spiritual need, which is individual for every person. That is why the chapter on assessing spiritual needs is mentioned here. Furthermore, concepts of spirituality, religion, and religiosity are covered. This is followed by description of spiritual phenomena including personal relationships, spiritual knowledge, and love. I have also included spiritual health and spiritual distress here. The chapter Spiritual development in individual phases of life deals with the way we experience spirituality from childhood to adulthood. It is followed by the chapter Illness and hospitalized person, which mentions the effects of hospitalization on an individual, and also the meaning of religious belief during his illness. The last chapter is called Spiritual care, which includes pastoral care. The aim of the work is to find out, based on quantitative research, what kind of spiritual needs hospitalized patients have and how does the experience of illness differ in religious and non-religious patients. Two hypotheses were set {--} the importance of spiritual needs increases with age, and experience of illness differs in religious and non-religious hospitalized patients. Both of the hypotheses were verified. The research sample consisted of hospitalized patients from Moravian-Silesian Region, from the town Odry, hospitalized at the Chronic diseases ward and Internal medicine ward, and patients from Pilsen Region, from the city Pilsen, hospitalized at the Internal medicine ward and Surgical ward. The interviewing method was used in the form of questionaire data collection. In the discussion, the outcomes are compared with professional literature, and working hypotheses are evaluated. Current situation of the attitude towards spiritual needs, evaluation of hypotheses, and my personal opinion of the topic are mentioned in the conclusion.
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SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGIOSITY OF SENIORS
VACHOVÁ, Klára
The presented bachelor thesis is titled ``Spirituality and Religiosity of Seniors{\crqq}. The terms spirituality, religiosity and spiritual needs are not exactly clear at the moment in our society. Despite that, the spiritual dimension of man is a part of the so called holistic view of man as a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual being. This work brings a closer characteristic of spiritual dimension and clarifies what role spiritual needs can play in the life of a senior. The work is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part, the terms spirituality and religiosity are explained and possible spiritual needs of clients, elementary psychology of old age and atheism are characterized. The following have been included among spiritual needs: the need to find a sense of life, the need to find a sense of suffering, the need of transcendence, the need to be loved and to love, the need of belief, the need of hope, the need to have a clear conscience, the need to forgive others, the need of prayer and meditation and the need of symbols and images. The aim of the work is to define spiritual needs of seniors. It also attempts to find out if these needs are fulfilled and to what extent. Qualitative and quantitative research methods were combined. In the quantitative part of the research the method of asking questions was used. Questionnaire was the technique of data collection. Two working hypotheses related to the aims were chosen. In the qualitative part the technique of an interview was chosen on the basis of a narrative method. The research was carried out in a Home for seniors in Veselí nad Lužnicí and in a Care home in Veselí nad Lužnicí. Information obtained from the questionnaires was processed manually using the tick method and descriptive statistics. Bar charts and pie charts were used for graphical representation of the data. Program Microsoft Excel was used to produce the graphs. In the discussion, the results of the research are compared with specialized literature and working hypotheses are evaluated. Own opinions of the given problems and recommendations for practice are stated in the conclusion.
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Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Disabled Persons
POLÁKOVÁ, Zuzana
The diploma thesis is concerned with the spiritual needs of disabled persons. The topic is based on the psychology of personality, characterizes human needs, and defines motivation, values and interests. Basic areas of psychology of religion and religious education follow. The educational view focuses on issues associated with the religiosity of human beings seeking aims for religious education. Further chapters are dedicated to disabled persons, describe basic types of such disability and based on the author´s personal experience they show the specificities of the life of disabled persons. The second part concentrates on meeting the spiritual needs. The thematic area gives rise to the methodological proposal for the didactic opening of the spiritual needs. Several didactic units containing individual lessons for a group of disabled persons form part of the thesis.
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The Ministry of Clergy in Retirement Homes as a Form of Answering Spiritual Needs of the Clients
UXOVÁ, Markéta
The diploma emphasizes the rediscovered holistic view of humans as bio-psycho-socio-spiritual beings, characterizing the spiritual dimension in a more detailed way and clarifying what the role of Christian denominations clergy may be in fulfilling spiritual needs of the clients. The theoretical part of the work deals with the spiritual dimension of a human in general, then it explains the term of religion regarding Christian roots of Europe and the position of spirituality among the needs of a human. It also deals with characteristics of possible spiritual needs of the clients, the role of clergy in fulfilling spiritual needs of the clients and the concept of sacramental care in selected Christian congregations. The work itself aims to characterize the ministry of clergy and its place in fulfilling spiritual needs of the clients. In the conclusion the author{\crq}s views of the field of spiritual needs of the diseased are presented as well as recommendations for practice.
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