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The specifics of drawing the allowance for care in the nursing home
KOCHOVÁ, Karolína
The bachelor thesis deals with the use of care allowance for nursing service users living in a nursing home. The thesis has two main parts. The theoretical basis describe the nursing service, social work with the nursing service users, the basic activities that this service provides and focuses on the costs of these services, namely the care allowance. Research part called "Utilization of care allowance in the care service of the town of Větřní" includes the aim of the work and research questions. The aim is to find out how users of nursing care of nursing home in Větřní who receive care allowance use the offered services and how much they pay on average per month. The partial goal is to find out who else provides additional care to these particular users.
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Use of social services by beneficiaries of care allowance.
SEDLÁČKOVÁ, Lucie
The Bachelor's Thesis deals with the issue of the carer's allowance recipients benefiting from social services, which is important and topical in my opinion. Applying the quantitative method of research, I performed a survey based on questionnaires. I divided the respondents into 3 groups to allow questions asked in the questionnaires to cover all types of clients among whom I carried out the research. The group one included persons benefiting from residential care social services; the group two included persons provided with outpatient care or field care social services and the group three included persons who are recipients of the carer's allowance where care is provided by, for example, their family members. The goal of the Bachelor's Thesis was to find out how the recipients dispose of the carer's allowance and whether they are satisfied therewith. Two more partial goals finally resulted from the research in relation in particular to persons belonging to group one. One of the partial goals is whether the respondents are satisfied with the services provided and the other partial goal is whether, according to the respondents, the quality of the provided services corresponds with the financial means that they pay to the services providers. The hypothesis H1: The allowance is used for social services. This hypothesis could be examined among the respondents belonging to groups two and three only. In this case, the hypothesis was not affirmed. In the group three, no respondent utilizes social services and in the group two only 27 respondents out of 80, who were interviewed, benefit from such services. The hypothesis H2: The recipients are satisfied with the carer's allowance amount. This hypothesis was affirmed in a total number of 80 respondents. 48 persons are satisfied with the carer's allowance amount and the remaining 32 respondents said that they were not satisfied. I think that this research may be beneficial for social services providers, as it will find out how the respondents assess the effectiveness of the provided services or whether they would welcome a different alternative available in the area of social services.
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The Criteria for Granting of Care of Elderly People.
JANOŠŤÁKOVÁ, Iveta
Modern conception of social care is adjusted by Act No. 108/2006 Col., on social services. It includes a description of conditions of providing assistance and support to individuals in adverse social situation through social services, particularly by a new benefit ? care benefit. This is used by people who are limited by their health condition in normal life. The new conception philosophy is based on the fact that people using the care benefit, dependent on assistance of other individuals are completely free to decide who and how will provide them with the assistance. Its subsequent use has to lead people to activity, support of development of their independence and motivation, to prevent worsening of their adverse social situation. The purpose of the care benefit is to keep the ill person alive as long as possible and to live with dignity in his/her natural environment. The care is provided either by close persons (family) or by social service providers from government or non-government organizations. The aim of the thesis was to map the criteria in the field of the method of dependence assessment for granting care benefit to seniors over 65 years of age in České Budějovice district, who were assessed in 2012 in so-called transitive period according to both the regulations. The theoretical part defines the terms senior, aging process and informs on social factors leading to human life extension. It describes development of social work in the Czech Republic and establishment of the Social Service Act effective from 1 January 2007, the main idea of which was modification of the role of the state as the social care provider, and active involvement of a citizen as the benefit receiver. The next part of the thesis describes criteria of care benefit granting according to the original regulations valid from 1/1/2007. It is granted in four levels corresponding to different amounts with regards to age and number of acts (36 evaluated). Ability to cope with individual acts of care about oneself and self-sufficiency are evaluated in assessment of dependence degree for the care benefit purposes. The Social Service Act has been amended several times; a substantial change of the criteria for granting the benefit came on 1/1/2012, when Act No. 366/2011 Col., modifying certain provisions of the Social Service Act, became effective. In the new assessment of dependence degree the ability of a person to cope with 10 basic life needs is evaluated. Two hypotheses were tested in the practical part of the thesis upon the set goals: 1. Higher dependence degree is recognized in assessment of dependence degree in seniors according to the new criteria. 2. Lower number of evaluated acts in assessment of dependence degree corresponds with objectivization of health condition of the assessed person. The research was performed by means of quantitative method, namely data content analysis and the obtained data were statistically processed by categorical data analysis, Pearson?s correlation coefficient and contingency tables. Data from the statistics of the Czech Social Security Administration, its local workplaces and accessible materials of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the CR in 2007 and 2012 were used for the research. After analysis and evaluation of the necessary information we found that the first hypothesis was not confirmed; higher degree is not recognized in assessment of dependence degree in seniors. The second hypothesis was confirmed, the lower number of assessed acts correspond with objectivization of health condition. In the conclusion we observe that the new criteria for assessment of dependence degree for the purpose of granting the care benefit do not lead to recognition of higher dependence degree.
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The care allowance and its development within Strakonice region
KŘIVANCOVÁ, Eva
The theme of the Bachelor thesis is a contribution to the care and its development in Strakonice region. This work was aimed at mapping the development of legislation, the care allowance from its inception to the end of the year 2011. The first part of the Bachelor thesis is devoted to social services. The second part focuses on the care allowance. The third part is devoted to the development of regulatory contribution for care services in the years 2007-2011. The fourth part which is practical, is aimed at reducing the contribution of care allowance in the first stage of addiction from 2000 to 800 CZK for persons over 18 years of age. The aim of the research was to determine the impact of this reduction in the region of Strakonice in terms of the number of applications to increase the contribution to the care, the structure of the people complaining about the increase in the allowance according to the providers of assistance, and the volume of disbursements to the care allowance.
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Utilisation of care contributions within the social services available in Milevsko
HRŮZOVÁ, Jaroslava
This thesis focuses on the ways in which clients of social services in Milevsko and its surrounding areas use care allowances. The opening theoretical part briefly mentions the legislation and manners in which both financial and physical assistance was provided to physically handicapped persons before the Social Services Act came into effect. The second part of the thesis describes matters relating to the provision of care allowances, namely the filing of requests, the course of proceedings for the granting of care allowances, the right to the payment of care allowances, degrees of dependency, and the purposes for which care allowances are intended. The third part introduces the individual registered providers in Milevsko, namely what services they have registered, to whom these services are meant to be provided, and what scope of services the registered providers provide. The practical part traces the particular manners in which care allowances are utilized by their recipients in social services. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether care allowances are sufficient, whether recipients utilize them to buy these services and whether recipients only buy services from registered providers or whether they avail themselves of the care of family members or other natural persons as well.
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Seniors´ opinions on care allowance
POHLOVÁ, Vendula
Since January 1st, 2007, Act No. 108/2006 Coll. On Social Services has been effective. Amended later, it establishes procedures for the care allowance acknowledgement and other proceedings. The care allowance is paid in four stages. Under the Act, care allowance should be used to provide the necessary care for the applicant. Since the year 2007, the data collected have shown that care allowance (especially in the first stage) is not always used for the care provision by registered care providers, and the money paid from the state budget is not refunded via the care providers back into the system, as originally intended. The thesis deals with the development of care allowance and problems that care allowance brings about. The answers to the research questions were identified using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods: a secondary data analysis and a semi-conducted interview. For the data analysis the information from the system OK SERVICES, in which the data associated with care allowance are processed and recorded, was used. The semi-conducted interview was conducted on the basis of prepared questions. The first portion was identification questions, the following questions were the prepared open questions that could have been adjusted during an interview with regard to a particular respondent. The basic research group of respondents for secondary data analysis consisted of the care allowance recipients at senior age living in the municipality with extended powers Český Krumlov. Interviews were conducted with selected senior citizens from the basic research group. The sample corresponds with the socio-demographic profile in the basic research group. The thesis can be used as material for the purposes of the MLSA, for community planning at the regional and municipal level, and for the employees of municipalities with extended powers, who are in charge of the care allowance agenda.
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The problems linked with the senior allowance allocations
AUGUSTINOVÁ, Hana
The thesis deals with various issues related to the allotment of elderly people care allowance. The introduction describes the current state of social policy and services; basic concepts used in this field were defined. The concept of old age and its epiphenomena were briefly and expertly characterized. The main part of the thesis is devoted to ways of obtaining, processing, allotment and functioning of the allowance for the care of elderly people in the region of Milevsko. Given the specifics of the individual Czech regions, it was necessary to describe generally the Milevsko region and to characterize the Department of Social Affairs at the Milevsko Municipal Authority, which pursuant to Czech legislation, carries out all activities associated with the agenda of the allowance for care in the defined region. The objective of the thesis was to map in detail the issues of the allowance care at various stages, i.e. from filing an application till its execution and to describe partly the subsequent use of the allowance. The details of the early stages of processing applications are described, i.e. where there are still many problematic issues. During my work on the problem, I cooperated closely with the staff at the Milevsko Municipal Authority, competent staff at the Department of Social Affairs and a selected sample of senior citizens in the locality. To achieve the set objective, I used the strategy of qualitative research, the method of interviewing and the technique of semi-controlled non-standard interviews of selected clients ? senior citizens ? with the staff of the Department of Social Affairs. The analysis of social and medical records of the client group, along with legislation for the care allowance, was used as an additional method. The outputs of the used techniques were recorded in detail and summarized using tables. The research results yielded many interesting findings; in particular it is still a relatively low general public awareness of the care allowance and it was demonstrated that the most important source of information for senior applicants was a social worker. What needs to be constantly improving is the awareness of senior citizens and their family members of what types of care and compensating aids or activities can be covered by care allowance. It is also necessary to explain to senior citizens and their families how to use the care allowance, such as checks by social workers. According to the findings, I can confirm that the care allowance is a very important factor that helps significantly to offset the dependence of senior citizens, although its amount is questionable. Another finding was seen in an irreplaceable role of the family, family members who provide the care of the elderly and the efforts of all who are involved in ensuring senior citizens can function in their natural environment, which I think is an extremely positive finding. In any case, ?horror? scenarios of abusing the care allowance were not confirmed, which confirms the fact that the control mechanisms in the legislation are relatively well adjusted. Improvements, according to the conclusions of my thesis, must be included in the inquiry stage of processing the care allowance; there is a need to combine general social methods with an extremely sensitive and personal approach to individual applicants in order to achieve optimal use of the care allowance for individuals who could stay in their natural environment as long as possible. Another area of potential development can be seen particularly in the interaction between the actors involved in the process of allotment of the care allowance, e.g. through automated processing of the agenda using electronic forms.
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