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Social work in hospice care
PUDIVÍTROVÁ, Tereza
The diplome thesis focuses on social work with dying person, including their family members in hospice care. This thesis is situated in five chapters. The first chapters focuses on death and dying. The second chapter focuses on hospice, hospice care and last but not least, dignified dying, including the quality of life in the hospice. The third chapter deals with social work and its place in hospice, including its focuses on the role of social worker in hospice care, where I describes the individual target groups and other areas of interest. The fifth and final chapter focuses on the ethical side of dying and death, first part in general, and second part on end of life issues.
Palliative Care Confronted with Euthanasia and Consequent Meaning of Social Work
PROTIVÍNSKÁ, Lucie
The study deals with fundamental issue of palliative care which is defined as active and complete care of the patient with sickness unresponsive to curative care, it shows the possibilities of palliative care and its ways to achieve the most possible quality of patient´s and his family´s life. The ideal is to relieve symptoms such as physical pain, psychical, social and the spiritual one also. The study focuses mainly on the mission and the tasks of medical profession as well as on the social work during the care of uncurable patient and of his family. There are some reflexions about dying and death in the first chapter, and in that context it´s not possible to avoid the problematic of euthanasia which has as many fervent proponents as opponents. The fourth chapter deals with this ethic dilemma. The meaning of social work in palliative care emerged from the confrontation of the euthanasia with the palliative care is treated in the fifth chapter.

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