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Psychological aspects of care for the elderly
LACINOVÁ, Irena
This thesis deals with psychological aspects of elderly care during the last phase of life. It focuses on caring professionals and caring laymen. The theoretical part of the thesis describes physiological ageing and particular psychological aspects, which can occur during elderly care in the last phase of life. The practical part of the thesis contains short statements of caring professionals and caring laymen, who have experience with elderly care. The thesis occupies with negative feelings and states, that may occur in caring professionals and caring laymen and can lead to burnout syndrome.
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Social Relationships in Old Age
VERUŇÁK, Ondřej
The bachelor thesis deals with social relations in old age. It is divided into three chapters. The first chapter defines the concepts of aging and old age, describes the demographic changes in contemporary society and age periodization in terms of calendar. It also describes typical physical and mental changes that occur in old age. The second chapter is devoted to the question how old age affects old people's social life. It focuses on the transformations of family, marital and social relationships in old age. This chapter also deals with the issue of ageism and the transition of seniors to institutional care. The relationship of seniors, the question of faith and spiritual needs in old age, together with the question of how society perceives death today is the subject of the last part of the chapter. The third chapter contains a qualitative research - interviews with some seniors on the above mentioned topics of social relationships in old age.
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Long-term care for the elderly from the perspective of nursing
PAVLÍKOVÁ, Hana
Long-term care for the elderly people is a widely discussed topic in recent years not only among health professionals but also by the general public. And it will not change in the future. According to the Czech Statistical Office (2012) in 2050, the population aged over 65 will double and the population older than 85 years even quintuple. This work deals with long-term care for the elderly from the perspective of nursing, for the current demographic trends affect it significantly. Long-term hospitalization of the elderly in medical facilities is linked to many complications, not only physiological, but also psychological, social and spiritual. The aim of the thesis entitled "Long-term care for the elderly in nursing perspective" was to find out what the nurses in long-term care for seniors consider as the greatest problems, if they would welcome a change in competences in long-term care for the elderly, and to obtain an opinion about the long-term institutional care and long-term home care. Individual opinions of nurses from different departments were compared; what kind of solution to the current problems of long-term care for the elderly the nurses propose themselves. Objective 1: Find out what the sisters find as the most crucial problem in long-term care for seniors. Objective 2: Determine whether nurses feel the necessity for change in nursing competences in the management of long-term ill elderly. Goal 3: Find out what is the opinion of nurses about long-term institutional care for the elderly compared to long-term community care at home. The main research question based on the research problem and the research objectives was defined as follows: What is the prospect of long-term care for the elderly in terms of nursing? I decided for an exploratory approach. I was looking for another connection to general research question and examined them in depth. I decomposed this relatively broad topic covered by the research questions into several specific questions: 1. Will it be necessary to make additional changes in financing long-term care, due to a growing demographic age of the population increases? 2. Could nurses in long-term care for the elderly take over certain powers previously belonging to doctors? 3. Will the importance of providing nursing care long-term ill seniors at home increase? 4 Should be a long-term care for the elderly moved out of hospitals to specialized facilities? 5. Will it be necessary to increase the number of health care facilities with the focus on long-term care because of the growing number of senior citizens? 6. In connection with the increasing number of hospitalized elderly, will medical facilities have enough of gadgets? For the research was chosen a qualitative interview method. Nurses from various departments were interviewed and the outcomes were processed using the content analysis. Sisters? perspective on a long-term nursing care for elderly is: closer connection of health and social services, to increase quality of care, to strengthen the autonomy of elderly, dignified care for the elderly, increased use of home care and informing the general public about it, streamlining communication with seniors and their families, safer environment and to increase the motivation of nurses to provide the highest quality of nursing care.
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Cooperation with the Families of Users in G-centrum Tábor
HOLUBOVÁ, Karolína
The Cooperation with Families of the Clients in the G- Centre Tábor For my bachelor thesis I have chosen the topic ?The Cooperation with Families of the Clients in the G-Centre Tábor?. The main aim of my thesis is to find out if the family is not less interested in the care for the senior after he or she had been taken into the care of an institution - particularly The G-Centre Tábor ? Old People´s Home,c.o. It has been common in the 21st century to take care for our older relatives and for the older generation in our country in general. The old age does not have to be only a phrase which announces impotence, last years of the life or illness. However not all seniors can afford to stay at home till the end of their lives. The most frequent reasons for this are their health problems that often accumulate in the old age and the risk of their occurrence is higher. That is often why the family and the senior himself have to choose the way of the institutional care. The theoretical part has been aimed to the senior, his or her family and the institutional care. In the first part I wanted to point out what the old age looks like, what it brings and what is the way the seniors are able to cope with the situations brought by the old age. In the next part I have aimed at the family, because it undoubtedly plays an important role in the senior´s life. I have focused onthe changes of the family from the past to the present. I also wanted to highlight the important and irreplaceable role of the senior in the family, the life together with the senior and possible barriers and problems in the communication. In the last part I have aimed to the institutional care ? what it is, what social service it can offer, what the admission of the senior to the institutional care looks like and what are the rights and obligations of the staff and the clients who live there. I have also aimed to the social worker, his or her work filling and job level in the old people´s home. For the practical part I have chosen qualitative research with using of the method of semi-controlled dialogue.The research was realized in the G-Centre Tábor ? Old People´s Home, c.o. and 11 respondents took part in it. There were addresses five clients of G-Centre in the age from 72 to 85 years, four women and one man, and also their family members in the age from 22 to 52 years. All the family members were women, four daughters and one granddaughter. The research was completed by the interview with a social worker from the G-Centre. She has been working there at the position of the university educated social worker for 12 years. The aim of the thesis is to find out if and in what way the families are included in the care for the clients of the G-Centre Tábor. The main research issue stated to the achievement of the aim was the following: Is the family engaged in the care for the clients of G-Centre Tábor ? Old People´s Home, c.o.? And three more additional questions were: In what way is the family engaged in the care for the clients of G-Centre Tábor, Old People´s Home, c.o.? What opportunities do The G-Centre Tábor ? Old People´s Home, c.o. offer to engage the family in the care for the clients? And the last partial question was: Do the families of the clients know the opportunities to engage themselves in the care?
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Caring for Senior Citizens with Dementia
PRŮCHA, Vlastimil
The thesis deals with the manifestation and results of aging and old age from the point of view of the elderly and their experience of this stage of life and also from the viewpoint of the family and society around them. Further attention is drawn to the importance of the connection of health and social care for citizens with health problems, and the significance of social work in caring for senior citizens is emphasised. Other parts deal with the notion of dementia, with particular focus on Alzheimer{\crq}s disease. Basic problems are outlined which are connected with a citizen dealing with dementia and information is given which can help the family and all those who are involved in helping the patient. In the conclusion I evaluate the significance of permanent care and I consider the needs of non-institutional care and emphasise the importance of a caring family, humanity and understanding, which are important for the quality of life of those with dementia. This is the aim of my thesis.
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Institutional care of mentally disabled seniors
PROCHÁZKOVÁ, Helena
Population is aging. Along with increase in dementia and other old-age related conditions new effective services and residential facilities will become a necessity in following years. A need for institutional care rises with age and severity of dementia. Currently, there is deficiency of services providing this care and services are limited by resource availability. A demented person in institutional care quality of life requires stable safe environment, sufficient staff and frequent contact by family. Special dementia and related conditions care units were incorporated into residential care facilities for elderly designed for this special group of residents. The aim of the work is to review and evaluate a quality of care at the special units for elderly with dementia and similar mental conditions is provided within two residential homes in České Budějovice. Both surveyed units were found understaffed and some technical imperfections were found due to limited budgets but under these restrictive conditions both units mostly met requirements for elderly with dementia quality of care.
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The Seniors Injuries in the Institutional Care
SOUKUPOVÁ, Marta
The environment, where we live, that means the dwelling environment, influences the quality of our lives very important. This space is more important for the seniors, because their abilities, which help them to move easy in our world, go down. The injuries represent a grave and special element in morbidity of the seniors. They happen more frequently, more weak is the health and functional disposition of the seniors. Compared to a younger age, their treatment is more complicated, longer and brings worse attainments and higher costs. Grave injuries are yoke together with higher mortality, than similar hurts in younger age. In this diploma work the author has tried to assess the prevention of the injuries of the seniors in the rest homes and to chart the factors, which most influence this adaptation. In the first part of the work, she alludes to attitude to the old people during the history and she mentions the actual situation in view at the old age. Other chapters treat of dividing of the periods of human life, bio-psycho-social changes in old age, most frequent health problems and their prevention, rehabilitation. In the second part of the work, the author is engaged in the survey in the rest homes. She locates in chosen institutions, if the living and life of the seniors is primary assured so, that the injury risk is minimal. For obtaining of the necessary data, the author has used a method of questioning and observation. Three of the rest homes were randomly chosen in the south-bohemian region. The author has used a quantitative research to get this data. The hypothesis, if the rest homes have equipment, which minimizes the injuries risk, was confirmed.
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