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The quality of life of carers providing elder care to non self-sufficient pensioners
Stratilová, Iveta ; Mareš, Jiří (advisor) ; Vachková, Eva (referee)
Name and surname of the author: Iveta Stratilová Institution: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Institute of Social Medicine, Department of Nursing Title: The Quality of Life of Carers Providing Elder Care to Non Self-Sufficient Pensioners Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Mareš, CSc. Number of pages: 147 Number of attachments: 5 Year of defense: 2016 Key words: senior, carer, stroke, old age and aging, non self-sufficiency, provided care In the theoretical part, this bachelor thesis ascertains quality of life of carers providing elder care to non self-sufficient pensioners. There are defined terms relating to the issue in question, i.e. senior, old age, caring person, non self-sufficiency, biological, psychological and social needs of a senior, stroke. The issues of caring people accompanying elder care are examined in detail. In the empirical part, the author studied life issues of five women providing elder care to non self-sufficient pensioners for the period of 2 to 5 years. The qualitative approach was used in this work - not standardized observation, narration and semi-structured interview. Acquired data were compared with each other and with scientific literature. Based on the results, the author purposes possible interventions that could facilitate care to...
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New Concepts and Models of Care in Residential Facilities for Elderly
Němcová, Kateřina ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Nová, Monika (referee)
Diploma thesis on the topic of New concepts and models of care for seniors in social service residential facilities is divided into theoretical and practical part. The initial three chapters are focused on problems of old age and ageing, needs of retired clients of social service residential facilities and concepts of long-term care for the elderly people in the Czech Republic. The fourth chapter forms a basic for this work. It describes selected approaches and models of the care that were applied mainly in western European countries and are being adopted by some of residential facilities in our country. The practical part of the thesis consists in quantitative research among social workers and staff of registered residential facilities. The aim of the questionnaire survey was to determine knowledge level of the individual concepts and models of care among employees and to find out to which extent the selected facilities apply new concepts and models in their everyday life. Because these new concepts and models emphasize an individual approach and constant improvement their application is considered a viral part of care for clients of old age. The conclusion of the research confirms that application of newly introduced concepts and models increased quality of provided services in 95,3 % of...
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Old People and new media
Lacinová, Eva ; Wolák, Radim (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with problems of media literacy of older people. Its main goal is to capture the way seniors can reflect and evaluate new media. It does not attempt to provide specific and universally valid reply to observed problems, but the intention of the work is rather to understand phenomena and conditions of the problems. The text is therefore divided into three main sections: theoretical, practical and analytical. In the theoretical part key information and concepts associated with communication, media literacy, and age and growing old are introduced. Special attention is paid to the description of relationship between seniors and new media. The practical part is devoted to qualitative research. Information about the way older respondents use and evaluate new media is acquired through semi-standardized depth interviews. The analytical part results from the findings presented in the previous two sections. It serves not only as major conclusions of the work but also as notes and recommendation for further studies or researches. All relevant and essential facts are summarized in the conclusion of the paper.
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Health Sensation of the Elderly
ANTOŇŮ, Nikol
This bachelor's thesis is concerned with the satisfaction and quality of life of seniors in retirement homes. The main objective of this thesis is to measure the degree of satisfaction of life in a specific retirement home. The work is divided into a theoretical part and a research part. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is concerned with satisfaction as psychological contentment, and factors which are linked with this. Furthermore, this chapter is devoted to life events, evaluations, and priorities. These terms will be defined in this chapter. The term "senior" is here also defined, as a person aged 60 years. The second chapter of the theoretical part is concerned with old age and aging, whilst also interpreting the meaning of these terms. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between the senior and their family. Here, family is thought of as an essential component in the care of a senior. The third chapter is devoted to satisfaction of life in old age, where select elements of the life of a senior are discussed. Some themes discussed include moving into a retirement home, retiring from work, loss of employment and change of living arrangements. The empirical part will address the satisfaction of life of seniors in a retirement home. The main question addressed was: Which important milestones played key roles in the life of a senior? The question was divided into six more detailed questions: What is the relationship between the senior and their family like? How does the senior perceive their own departure from home and living in a retirement home? How does the senior perceive their own state of health? What does the senior do in their free time? How satisfied was the senior in their marriage/partnership? What role did the senior's employment have? After obtaining the necessary information, a qualitative investigation was carried out using investigative methods and a semi structured interview. The results were recorded with the aid of so called clusters. Following on from this, the manner by which the participants were chosen is discussed. The group was formed from 6 individuals (3 men and 3 women), who were willing to take part in the study. The study took place in two phases. Firstly, a preliminary survey was carried out, and after this the main study was conducted. The interview was recorded on a dictaphone and transcribed. The data obtained was evaluated with the aid of clusters. The resulting details were structured by each of the longer, more detailed questions. From the study it was revealed that during their lives seniors, or at least those who participated in the study, place an emphasis on their children and the relations they have with their family, employment and their stay in the retirement home in Budíškovice. The results of this bachelor's thesis can aid social workers in a correct approach to clients in the retirement home in Budíškovice.
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Care for Seniors at Home
TROJÁKOVÁ, Jitka
This thesis deals with problems of taking care about elderly people in domestic surroundings. The work gives an account of experience of people who look after an elderly person in domestic surroundings. The thesis consists of two parts. The first theoretical part is divided into five chapters. In Chapter One the concepts of old age and aging are explained. Next the needs of old age are discussed. Then changes brought about by aging are summarized. Chapter Two explains the importance and role of family in old people's lives. The concept of carer is specified, mainly who can become a carer and what conditions this person should meet. Next, principles of caring for elderly people at home and problems that might arise are discussed. In addition the care for the carer is discussed, what a caring person should do to make their situation easier. Chapter Three gives an overview of support equipment that can be used at home. Chapter Four deals with legal measures related to caring for an elderly relative at home and with the concept of attendance allowance - who is entitled to it, how the level of necessary support is assessed and how much the benefit is. Next equipment and mobility benefits are explained. Last chapter gives a summary of social services that carers can make use of. The other empirical part of this thesis focuses on practical experience of people who care for an elderly person at home. The main question was "What are the factors affecting the care for an elderly person at home?" This question consisted of four partial questions "What does caring for an elderly person include?" "What does a day of a caring person look like?" "What makes caring easier?" "What social services do the carer and the elderly person use?" I choose the method of qualitative research for collecting data. I asked questions and used the technique of semi structured interview. The research group represented four people caring for an elderly relative at home. Each carer had been looking after the elderly relative for at least six months, each elderly person was receiving second level attendance benefit and each carer was willing to cooperate. The information I obtained was processed by the cluster method and then evaluated on the basis of common elements and lastly divided according the four partial research questions. The research answered all the questions. The carers and elderly people were relatives. The carers provided all sort of activities basic health treatment, household chores, handling official issues. Next I focused on health care. It has turned out that all the elderly people except one have a general practitioner in the place where they live and see them according to their current state of health in the accompaniment of the carer. To see a specialist, they usually have to travel about 90 kilometres. The next research question referred to the daily routine of the carer. The research has shown that each day of a carer is the same and that all activities are tailored to the needs of the elderly person. The carers do not have any free time for themselves. As for support equipment for homecare. The next question was whether and if so what social services do the carers use. The research has shown that the carers do not use any social services even though they know this possibility exists. The carers knew about attendance allowance from social workers, general practitioners or colleagues. They use this allowance in different ways for buying medicine, support equipment. In two cases the carers put the allowance money aside. All the respondents know about the mobility allowance, only one of them knows about the allowance for special aids.
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Adaptation of the elderly in nursing home.
ČANIGOVÁ PROROKOVÁ, Martina
The bachelor thesis deals with the adaptation of the seniors in the Home for the elderly. Theoretically describes the old age, the changes that accompanied this period. There are several chapters that describe the importance of the family for the elderly person's, needs and communication with seniors. Chapter of social services offers us look at how to use social services and describes the social service, which is the main point of this thesis and this is the Home for the elderly. Most major point of the work is an adaptation in general, adaptation to old age and the process of adaptation of the elderly in a nursing home. My final thesis contains five case studies of selected clients home for seniors that offers us various stories of clients and its adaptation to stay at the facility. In the conclusion summarizes the adaptation that is at various clients and factors that lead to success or failure of adaptation.
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Dramatic games and exercise with seniors
POSTLOVÁ, Erika
This graduate work is called Dramatic games and excercises with seniors. This work consits of two parts ? theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part is divided into two sections. The first one deals with old age and aging, the needs of seniors, retirement homes and activation. The second part informs readers about dramatic education, dramatic games and exercises and their distribution. The practical part describes the design, implementation and subsequent evaluation of the drama project. The project was implemented in the Home for Elderly Mistra Křišťana Prachatice.
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Selected ethical context of violence against seniors in terms of social workers
FIRICOVÁ, Alena
This dissertation deals with the ethical context of violence against seniors in the point of view of social workers. The theoretical part devotes with problems of old age and aging in contemporary society. The next section presents the violence, with an emphasis on institutional violence. The third charter reflects the theme of violence from the perspective of social work and ethics. The target of the practical parts was to map out knowledge and attitudes of workers in social services for violence against seniors, and to establish the circumstances that contribute to the potential threat of violence in the institutionalized elderly care. This part contains the basic results of empirical studies and case studies.
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Benefits for care and social benefits
DANIELOVÁ, Jaroslava
The final school-work deals with social benefits. It consist of two main parts. In the first part are mentioned basic informations about old age, disability, systematic care of handicapped, coherent rehabilitation. In the second part are mentioned statements found by research of clients getting benefits for care and clients with extra privilege. It was found that there is more women than men, most of them lives in their owh house hold only few lives in houses with special care.
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The Institutionalized Care for Senior People in České Budějovice
FIRICOVÁ, Alena
Work deal with homes for seniors in České Budějovice. Theoretic part try clear up basic processes concerning seniors not only from look their personal life, but also circumstance, which is indirectly work. Further describes print institutional arrangement for seniors. Practical part includes characteristics and juxtaposition 3 elect arrangement: Home for seniors May, home for seniors whistled and home for seniors dead - handed. First aim was charted conditions, behind which several power arrangement offer his services, e.g . capacity arrangement, staffing, activities for seniors aj. Second aim was oriented on inquest opinion clients on administration these services, satisfaction et al. reminder, which would could positively influence quality life clients in these arrangements. Several power arrangement are different time rise, capacity aj. ,have however same endeavour about humanization life his clients. Isn't that imposition only leadership workers, but of all, who offer clients direct care.
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