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Quality of Life in Old Age
TURINSKÁ, Nikola
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to obtain information about quality of life of gardening senior citizens, their subjective perception and evaluation of quality of their life, focusing on the social, cultural and health context. The bachelor thesis is divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with an issue of old age, describes a person´s adaptibility in old age and seniors´ leisure time, characterises active and healthy ageing as well as values of life. The practical part of the bachelor thesis defines targets, research questions, operationalisation of concepts and methods of data collecting in a qualitative research. The research was implemented with those senior citizens who live in their natural environment and whose main leisure time activity is gardening. Methods of interviewing and structures interview were implemented. The research is focused on a consistent description of all the respondents. As emerged from the research, gardening as a leisure time activity influences the quality of life positively. It prevents from social isolation, creates and confirms friendly relationship and removes intergenerational differences. It helps the senior citizens to maintain their life contentment. Gardening enriches seniors´ lives. The information obtained form the bachelor thesis can be used for closer awareness of individualised approaches and methods for evaluation the person´s quality of life, of differences of areas forming quality of life, expecting changes in life or balancing of the life generally. The results of the research can be provided to institutions that gather seniors, cultural institutions, homes for seniors or the nursing care homes.
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Characteristics of the current lifestyles of students of the University of South Bohemia
BAŘINKA, Vlastimil
The master thesis deals with the life style of female students at the University of South Bohemia. Definition of the word "life style" and all its important subparts that it embraces was a theoretical prerequisite for the practical part of the thesis. As the life style is a very broad subject, the theoretical part was focused on the most important parts that define a life style, namely: values of life, dietary regime, leisure time, and factors that negatively impact the life style. The practical part deals with the research itself whereby, using questionaries examinations, resemblances of life styles were observed among female students of the University of South Bohemia. Data were then analyzed and the conclusion of the thesis was made.
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The comparison of quality seniors´ life in the institutional establishment in the period of time for two years
KORTUSOVÁ, Jana
The topic of old age and ageing is wide-ranging. The position of senior citizens within a society and the solution of the questions connected with the consequences of their growing age represents an integral part of the natural life cycle. Apart from their material security the quality range of senior citizens{\crq} life is made up of their state of health, accessibility of both public and private health, social and other services, marital status, the quality of housing, the chance of further education and developing social contacts. The quality of life is a very subjective and individual phenomenon. It involves different impulses for various people in different periods. There is a general tendency towards rising demands on the quality of life within the population and it the same with the oncoming generation of senior citizens. It is always necessary to ask oneself a question whether the quality of senior citizens{\crq} lives in institutional facilities is on an appropriate level and which are the factors influencing the quality of their lives. Evaluating the quality of life can be also looked upon as a subjective individual{\crq}s view of the individual aspects of his life. However, it is highly important that the living environment meets and satisfies the senior citizens{\crq} corporal, psychic, social and spiritual needs. This diploma thesis represents a continuation of the bachelor{\crq}s thesis: The quality of senior citizens{\crq} life in institutional facilities. The basic aim is to compare the quality of senior citizens{\crq} life in the institutional facility {--} the Old People{\crq}s Home of Kůsov within a period of two years. I have chosen the topic of the thesis because I have been working in an institutional facility for more than 21 years, and the quality of senior citizens{\crq} life has made me think about this problem more thoroughly. The diploma thesis includes the present state of affairs of the problems in question, the specification of hypotheses, methodology, the results of the research, discussion, conclusion, the list of the sources, key words and supplements. The description of the present state of affairs comprises the characteristic features of the senior citizens{\crq} population, senior citizens{\crq} state of health, their self-sufficiency and activities. Another concept is the quality of life. Provided that we combine the word quality with that of life, we will face the fact that various people can have and usually do have different ideas about what in fact comprises the meaning of their life, what makes their life of high quality. The quality of life is looked upon as a multi-dimensional quantity and is usually defined as a ``subjective appraisal of one{\crq}s own conditions of life{\crqq}. Further on there are institutional facilities and the new Social Care Act No. 108/2006 digest mentioned in this part. There have two hypotheses been specified in this thesis, which have been confirmed by the research. The original research sample of the year 2004 included 100 respondents: 40 men and 60 women. Within the period of two years 22 respondents died, 8 men and 14 women. These respondents were taken away from the total sample and, as a result, a new representative sample has come into being comprising 78 respondents, 32 men ans 46 women. The research was carried out by means of the method of a controlled dialogue, using a questionnaire for the users of the old people{\crq}s home, the standardized SEIQoL questionnaire and an ADL test. The results were compiled in tabular and chart form, and subsequently processed by means of the STATISTICA statistical programme. The discussion includes a summary of the research knowledge in comparison with the sources used. The conclusion comprises a summary of the complete research part. We can conclude that nowadays the quality of life in an institutional facility can reach a high level.
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