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Social fieldwork with the elderly
MÍČKOVÁ, Anna
The work deals with social fieldwork with the elderly. The teoretical part in the first chapter describes old age, aging, physical and psychological changes in old age and the needs of the elderly. The second chapter is devoted to the family of the elderly and its importance in caring for them in cooperation with field social services. The third capter deals with social fieldwork - care service and personal assistance and care allowance. It also describes the field social services of the organization Charita Horažďovice. The practical part of the thesis contains research, the aim of which is determine the adequacy of the services offered by Charita Horažďovice and the need to expand the services by personal assistance. The research was conducted among the clients - elderly of Charita Horažďovice.
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The effects of loneliness on seniors' physical and mental health
BERÁNKOVÁ, Pavlína
The bachelor thesis deals with the topic of loneliness in seniors who are clients of a specific care service. The thesis is divided into two areas. The first area characterizing the basic terms, that are key to the chosen topic, according to the professional literature. The term old age as understood from a biological, psychological or sociological perspective, then the needs of the elderly and last but not least the definition of loneliness and the factors that influence loneliness. The second area deals with the definition of care services, which is important here. Since the case studies are created based on the clients of the organization. The research consists of case studies supplemented by semi-structured interviews. The research examines the causes and factors that caused the feeling of loneliness in the selected elderly.
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Death of client from social worker's perspective especially in adult day care centers and the impact of client's death on social worker
VANÁČ, David
This bachelor's thesis deals with death of a client in a care home and psychical impact of client's death on social care assistant. In the first chapter is described history of care service in the Czech republic, perception of death since 19th century and perception of death in nowdays in comparison to the past. In the following chapters this bachelor's thesis concerns groaning, five phases of grief, death of a client in a care home and psychical workload of social care assistants. The research focuses on emotions of social care assistants after client's death. The research uses a qualitative method and the main aim was to describe emotion of social care assistants after client's death.
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Providing Care Services in the Districts of Municipalities with Extended Competence of the City of Benešov
BÍLKOVÁ, Veronika
The diploma thesis deals with the provision of care services in the Districts of Municipalities with Extended Competence (DMEC) of the City of Benešov. Its aim is to describe the care service in DMEC Benešov, ways of its provision and changes related to the ongoing transformation, from the perspective of providers and from the perspective of clients. Another goal is to evaluate the expansion of the field care service onto weekends and into rural areas in DMEC Benešov. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with the issue of care services. The practical part examines the area of the issue and is aimed to find answers to two main research questions: How is the care service provided in DMEC Benešov? How is the transformation of the Care Service of the Benešov District? A qualitative research strategy, a method of questioning and a semi-structured interview technique were chosen. The research group consisted of 12 informants, who were selected through deliberate selection, purposeful selection technique and their availability. The results were processed by data analysis using grounded theory. From the research, it can be concluded that the care service in DMEC Benešov has a stable team that supports clients to stay at home. The care service is mostly provided to seniors, who most often receive services such as lunch delivery, taking care of the household and assistance with personal hygiene. The care service provides a service on weekends even in rural areas, where it covers the so-called white spaces. Thanks to the project Care Service - Opportunity for a Life at Home II. The Care Service of the Benešov District managed to focus on professional work, expand the target group with families with a child/children and extend the operational hours until 19:00 and on weekends. However, the research revealed that in the DMEC Benešov there is not much interest in providing care services during weekends. The results can be used as feedback for care service providers in DMEC Benešov and as examples of good practice for other care service providers.
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Websites of care service providers in the South Bohemian Region according to the Register Social Service Providers
BARTUŠKOVÁ, Michaela
The objective of my diploma thesis is analysing the webpages of chosen care providers in the Region of South Bohemia from the perspective of individuals currently interested in using care services for a family member. With regard to the character and objective of my diploma thesis, I chose three research questions. How do candidates evaluate the design and clarity of the webpages belonging to the chosen care service providers? How do service candidates evaluate the ease of finding and the amount of information on the webpages of chosen care service providers and what information is important to them on the webpage? How do prices for individual acts of provided services differ in chosen providers? To reach the objective of my diploma thesis and to answer research questions I have chosen to combine the methods of both, qualitative and quantitative research. In the qualitative part, I chose a semi-structured interview with ready questions that I asked for in all analysed provider webpages to be the data collection technique. In the quantitative part, I used the technique of a questionnaire with closed scaling questions to be the data collection technique. There are two research files appearing in my thesis. One of these are people currently interested in care service and the other are webpages of care service providers. For research purposes, I picked five webpages of providers who differed from each other in their organization form. The results prove that in case of the first research question, from the perspective of webpage design and its clarity, the following aspects are viewed as important, the font, the colours, and photos. Clarity is then linked to the above-mentioned factors together with the amount of information and its placement on the webpage. From the perspective of provided information, according to the research, the subjective feeling, the amount of information, ease or difficulty of finding specific information and how the visitor evaluates the web´s information being current, matter. In the last part of my research, I did a comparison of providers´ price lists within my research file and compared the given prices per task or a time interval to the Decree No. 505/2006 Coll. In majority of cases, the prices were stated equally in all organizations, they only differed in details. All organizations follow a financial limit based on the above-mentioned decree. The results of my thesis could serve as feedback to care service providers from the perspective of an independent observer who has minimal knowledge of this service, but on the other hand, is interested in given social service.
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The live of users in nursing homes and in the home environment
JIRSOVÁ, Hana
The aim of this diploma thesis is to track the subjective reasons clients move to a nursing home. The theoretical part is focused on social work with the elderly, the legislative framework of the care service and the offer of assistance for the elderly. One of the chapters is devoted to the needs of old age. Part of the work is devoted to proper communication with the elderly. The end of the theoretical part is devoted to the importance of one's family in the care of the elderly and changes of one's home (moving). A qualitative research strategy was used in the diploma thesis. The research was a field research. The method of data collection was a semi-structured interview. The data were processed using qualitative content analysis and the creation of biographies of research participants. Three groups of respondents from the entire South Bohemian Region took part in the research. The first group consisted of elderly people who live in a home environment and use Home health care. The second group consisted of elderly people who live in a nursing home. The research also included a third group - employees in the care area. The most common reasons for moving to a nursing home were deteriorating health, musculoskeletal pain, frequent pain and falls. Another often mentioned reason was the fear that they could no longer take care of themselves due to reduced self-sufficiency. Most of the elderly people interviewed relied on the help of family and friends. Among the often mentioned reasons was the death of one's spouse and the fact that the family no longer wants or isn't able take care of them. From the point of view of employees, the reason may also be the solution of a housing and financial problem. Only one respondent was strongly dissatisfied with living in a nursing home. The results of the research can serve as feedback and information material for employees of care service.
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Substance use among seniors using social services in the Central Bohemia Region
Bolková, Markéta ; Šťastná, Lenka (advisor) ; Černíková, Tereza (referee)
Introduction: Aging and old age have their own characteristic manifestations that affect individuals from the perspective of physical, psychological and social aspects. Old age is associated with certain risks, e.g. in association with changes of health status. This can affect the individual and influence the risk of the development of addiction. Harmful use of addictive substances and the risk of addiction are not related only to young people, but also to the elderly. Addictive substances which are used the most commonly include alcohol, psychoactive drugs and tobacco. Aims: The aim of the study was to map and describe patterns of substance use among seniors who use social services, specifically retirement homes for elderly and nursing services in the Central Bohemia region. Methods and sets: Data were obtained using a questionnaire survey within the quantitative research carried out in retirement homes for the elderly and nursing services in the Central Bohemia region. The social services were selected by the method of multi-stage random selection. The research set, which was selected by the method of deliberate sampling, consists of 100 respondents. Results: Respondents most often use alcohol, psychoactive drugs and tobacco. Prevalence use of tobacco and psychoactive drugs is higher among...
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Activation of older adults at home - example of care and respite service Caritas Příbram
Toužimská, Zuzana ; Janečková, Hana (advisor) ; Čížková, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of activation of seniors in the home environment, who use the relief service of Caritas Příbram. The work is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part has a total of 7 chapters dealing with topics such as old age, changes associated with this period of life, dementia as one of the possible disabilities in old age. It introduces the types of social services and care for the elderly, acquainted with activities that can be implemented when working with seniors. It is important to focus on individual planning as integral part of providing social services. The thesis also last describes the social service provider Charita Příbram and its relief service. The practical part is based on qualitative methods, namely the participatory observation in the home environment of clients of the relief service Charita Příbram with a combination of non-standardized interviews together with document analysis. The aim of the thesis is to find out and describe how the care of selected clients of the relief service of Charita Příbram in the home environment with emphasis on the applied activation methods, and to evaluate whether the scope of these services covers the individual needs, resources and possibilities of the client. Key words older adults,...
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Quality of domiciliary services from a user's perspective
Slaná, Petra ; Štegmannová, Ingrid (advisor) ; Wichsová, Jana (referee)
Petra Slaná ABSTRACT The thesis "Quality of domiciliary services from a user's perspective" deals with issues of quality of care services. Its aim was to find out what users expect from a quality service. Based on qualitative research and knowledge gained from practice was also to create a methodology for user satisfaction domiciliary services. The thesis consists of two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part contains the definition of old age, approaching the issue of aging, self-sufficiency and human needs in old age. It provides demographic and statistic data about the aging population. It focuses on social services in general, their definition, types and forms. It outlines the form of social services for seniors in the Czech Republic and in selected countries of European Union. It describes systems of quality used in the commercial sphere and in the service area. The theoretical part concludes with an overview of the factors which determine user satisfaction. The aim of the empirical part was to identify areas that may be an important quality of service criteria. Thanks to these users can evaluate the quality of services. To achieve this aim, was chosen qualitative research method. The empirical part of this thesis is therefore devoted to qualitative methodology of the research,...
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