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Leisure time activities of seniors as an inseparable part of health and social care
VÁVROVÁ, Lucie
With improving medical, social and economic care, people die in higher age. Thanks to a better life backround, the people live up higher age and our population gets older. For this reason it is important to focus the attention of governmental and non-governmental organisations to older citizens. The greatest effort of specially focused organisations on senior part of the population is to change the attitude and the view of the younger part of the population to older people. With increasing number of seniors we have to suppose that more and more older people will remain the work process. And for this reason it is important to maintain the senior part of the population in the best possible condition. Based on these facts, various associations, institutions and educational programs for their activation come into being. The whole issue of ageing and achieving more active ageing is dealt with by the World Health Organisation, governmental and other smaller organisations and subsequently by seniors themselves. The concern is also the prevention in self-sufficiency and an easier transition from the active work life into the pension age, with the target of maintaining the current interest and activities, e.g. acquiring new ones. The target of the research part of the bachelor{\crq}s thesis was to find out if the seniors utilise the offers for the support of the active life in older age or if they alone participate in the improvement of their life in older age and if they feel the necessity to develop themselves and to educate themselves. For the research implementation,120 seniors of Spa Aurora complex in Třeboň were addressed in the period of July and August 2009. The respondents filled in the questionnaires with the personal assistance for the possible clarification of unclear questions and answers. The results of the research confirmed that the present seniors have interest to be active and they also live an active life. They are interested in their sport activities,as well as in social life and further education. It followed moreover from the research that in their surroundings there is a sufficient offer for their interests they do not feel to be limited in this case. The thesis could be utilized for the co-operation with the wider age group of seniors. It could help to older citizens in deciding for the return to their interests and hobbies, or for the completion of the education which they could not finish in the last years for various reasons. Moreover, it could help to students in further development of research with this topic.
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