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Support of autonomous decision-making of clients in homes for the elderly
ŠEBESTOVÁ, Adéla
The diploma thesis deals with the support of autonomy of the elderly in homes for the elderly. It points out its essence, especially from a philosophical and psychological point of view. It describes what changes a senior goes through in old age and how they affect his autonomy. It is important to understand that not everyone perceives autonomy in the same way, and this is the subject of the third chapter. Next, the thesis concentrates on the possible support for the autonomy of the elderly in homes for the elderly, but in order to provide this appropriately, it is necessary to understand how the elderly adapt to their old age. Taken together, the findings underline the importance of supporting senior's autonomy.
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Field social service for seniors
VOSIKOVÁ, Kristýna
The thesis is theoretically oriented. The thesis centres on informal family care for the elderly. This thesis aims to show the family as an essential element of the care, to state the benefits and dangers of family care, and to reveal the state support system for the informal caregivers. In the first chapter defines the old age and ageing, the changes in the old age (physical, psychical, social, spiritual), and the personality of the old. The second chapter introduces the family as an element of the care, the benefits and dangers of the family care, and the state support system. The last chapter describes the social services, field social services for the elderly, care services, and personal assistance.
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Managing the leadership change and related activities during work with long-term clients on a helpline for elderly people in crisis
Borecká, Jana ; Holmerová, Iva (advisor) ; Tesařová, Martina (referee)
BORECKÁ, Jana. Managing the leadership change and related activities during work with long-term clients on a helpline for elderly people in crisis. Prague, 2010. Thesis. Charles University of Prague. Faculty of humanities. Department of management and supervision in social and health organisations. The supervisor: Prim. MUDr. Iva Holmerová, PhD. Key words: helpline, intervention into crisis, elderly people, changes in old age, mothodics of work with seniors on the help line, managing the change, permanent clients, ethics, teamwork, supervision, case study. The thesis concentrates on managing the leadership change dutiny work with long-term clients on a helpline for elderly people in crisis. The first part represents important theoretical base for understanding the second, practical part. The first part is engaged in specification of professional help on a help line - main principals of intervention into crisis that social worker must follow. It also considers problems of old age and the changes that come during this stage of lifetime. First part also introduces permanent clients as a specific group that needs the helpline for an assistance and brings special ethical questions not only for workers who have direkt contact with clients, but also for their superiors. The second part brings reader to...
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Participation of Retirement Home Residents
Vitoušová, Jindřiška ; Jíra, Otakar (advisor) ; Moree, Dana (referee)
Retirement homes provide a versatile facilities and services to their clients not only to secure the basic needs of seniors but also to offer an opportunity to satisfy their secondary needs for instance by participating on social events. Such involvement of seniors is beneficial for themselves and also for the whole society too. Theoretical part of my dissertation is focused on definition of the term participation, afterwards this term is put in relation to lives of seniors and their functioning in retirement homes. Next it also deals with recognizing the level of participation in an institution and what factors affect this level. Attention is directed on clients themselves during this process, how do they perceive participation, what barriers they see and on the other hand what opportunities motivate them to participate in social events. The main part of my work is dedicated to empirical research in the organization "Domov pro seniory Slunečnice" (Retirement Home Sunflower) where above mentioned topics are analy zed.
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Seniors and leisure
Pošustová, Kateřina ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Žáčková, Hana (referee)
Summary This diploma thesis focuses on seniors living in the home environment. In this work, I focused on descriptions of the leisure activities that today's seniors devote and I want to address to the problems of the old people they deal every day. I have also described the seniors of risks seniors and the basic terms with which we can meet in the senior's issue. The aim of the work was to find out what activities are seniors doing in their free time and whether their leisure time is sufficiently fulfilled. I also wanted to compare the hobbies of seniors from small and big cities. I learned from my research how todays seniors spend free time and what are the obstacles on spending their free time.
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Impact of a Dog on Daily Regime and Mobility in Urban Seniors over 65 Years
PECHAČOVÁ, Vendula
The thesis focuses on the problems of movement activity of seniors. The theoretical part deals with the topics of old age, aging and a senior and movement activities. It describes movement activities suitable for seniors and continues with the topic of a dog and its role in movement activities of seniors. The relation between a human and a dog is the last topic of the thesis. The second, empiric part of the thesis was based on the Record of Daily Activities conducted by 20 respondents in two groups for one week. The groups of respondents were divided according to whether a senior owned a dog or not. Movement activities were recorded for all the seniors, but they were in fact often influenced by dogs. The bachelor thesis points out the differences in the movement activities between the two examined groups. The research has shown that the seniors that own dogs walk much longer distances than those not having dogs. These seniors perform movement activities rather for the necessity to ensure the basic needs, not because they really want to. The results show that a dog has a positive influence on the movement activity of a senior. Both the groups had similar results in the category "Movement in the Flat", but the movement activities in the table "Movement Outdoor" differed. The research demonstrates that a dog positively influences the daily regime and movement activity of a senior. The respondents that do not own a dog should be more involved in movement activities to avoid possible health and social problems caused by inactivity.
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Moving of seniors to home for the elderly as a crisis life event
HORVÁTHOVÁ, Jaroslava
This thesis is focused on the issue of old age and aging. It is dedicated to moving of a senior to a home for elderly. Aim of the thesis was to determine whether elderly people see moving to a home for elderly as a life crisis event. This thesis consists of two parts - theoretical and practical. Theoretical part lists and clarifies principal topics that blend together at the thesis. Those topics are old age, aging, life in old age, life crises and possible solutions of them. It is dedicated to the process of aging and its aspects, defines the concept of old age and delimits various forms of old age. It explains the term senior and lists specifics of senior age such as specific needs of seniors and life changes of seniors. It focuses more thoroughly on housing of seniors and the process of moving of seniors into a residential facility. It defines the concept of a crisis, introduces a typology of crises and describes crises situations and their solutions.Practical part of the thesis consists of a research. Strategy of a quantitative research, method of questioning and technique of a questionnaire has been chosen with respect to the topic. The data have been acquired by means of a questionnaire of my own construction. The questionnaire consists of 25 research questions in total. The research file consisted of 119 respondents. The data are statistically evaluated and the results are depicted by means of tables and charts.The results of the research suggest that one third of seniors deems moving to the home for elderly to be a crisis life event. Perception of moving as a crisis event is not connected to sex, age, education and is connected to marital status. This thesis points out how demanding the process of moving to a residential facility is for seniors. The results can be used as a base for future research of the topic, they can be used as an educational material and can be beneficial for staff of homes for elderly and families of seniors.
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Participation of Retirement Home Residents
Vitoušová, Jindřiška ; Jíra, Otakar (advisor) ; Moree, Dana (referee)
Retirement homes provide a versatile facilities and services to their clients not only to secure the basic needs of seniors but also to offer an opportunity to satisfy their secondary needs for instance by participating on social events. Such involvement of seniors is beneficial for themselves and also for the whole society too. Theoretical part of my dissertation is focused on definition of the term participation, afterwards this term is put in relation to lives of seniors and their functioning in retirement homes. Next it also deals with recognizing the level of participation in an institution and what factors affect this level. Attention is directed on clients themselves during this process, how do they perceive participation, what barriers they see and on the other hand what opportunities motivate them to participate in social events. The main part of my work is dedicated to empirical research in the organization "Domov pro seniory Slunečnice" (Retirement Home Sunflower) where above mentioned topics are analy zed.
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Learning the Czech language in retirement age
Drtinová, Simona ; Sherman, Tamah (advisor) ; Šebesta, Karel (referee)
DRTINOVÁ, Simona. Learning the Czech language in retirement age. Prague, 2013. Dissertation. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication. This thesis deals with foreign language learning in retirement age from interdisciplinary perspective. Its characteristics may be limited economic activity, more free time and the potential occurrence of certain barriers caused by age. The case of foreigners in retirement age living in the Czech Republic and learning Czech will serve as an example of foreign language learning. The theoretical part of the thesis firstly defines old age together with the changes typical for the process of aging and old age: the changes are described on a physical, cognitive and social level. The thesis then goes on to address the process of learning with emphasis on foreign language learning. Selected components are mentioned within the pedagogical- psychological part of the learning process, specifically the motivation to learn, different organizational forms of education and teacher's role during the education. The end of the theoretical part addresses the offer of Czech language courses. All the parts of the thesis first address the topic on a general level and then focus on seniors. The empirical part of this thesis attempts to...
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