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Intergenerational Solidarity In Terms Of The Non-formal Care
VAVROUŠKOVÁ, Edita
The issue of eldercare has been increasing both political and public interests. Families are the main eldercare providers at present. At present it is mainly the family who provides care for elderly dependants. The aim of the thesis is to map this issue and to ascertain the eldercare development over the course of the years, the position of a caring family member and possible help by other family members and by the healthcare system. Population aging is currently an increasing problem in all countries. The Czech Republic also ranks among those states. The problem of providing elderly care is both present and future. It is important to provide the care system of elderly members of the society, which emphasises the key role of the support for caring family members. Independent care is also very difficult to ensure. The thesis deals with the issue of eldercare, the support for the family members caring for elderly dependants. Historical and current senior care development, actual issues affecting aging population and the influence on the quality of life of the caring family members are discussed in the thesis. The thesis deals with possible future development of informal care. The thesis also defines the terminology of the topic above mentioned, for example "senior age, aging", etc. Requirements for becoming a senior carer and ways of the care and elderly dependant needs and possible proposals for positive changes of the system are discussed.
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Informal caregivers for the elderly and their coping strategies
Kovářová, Lucie ; Remr, Jiří (advisor) ; Kudrnáčová, Michaela (referee)
The main topic of this work are coping strategies of informal caregivers for the elderly, ie people providing family care to a dependent seniors. Other topics that are closely related to the main topic of this work are stressors (ie the causes of stress) of informal caregivers of the elderly, and their basic characteristics (gender, age, relationship with the caregiver and others). The main goal of the research, on which the empirical part of this work is based, is to decipher which coping strategies are used by informal caregivers (not only) in the care of the elderly. Related to this main goal is the discovery of what informal carers face stressors and what their characteristics are. The research is based on a quantitative research method, specifically on a questionnaire survey. The results of the research are compared with the findings of the authors of research on the same topic conducted in Finland. The whole issue is examined against the background of an aging Czech society. Czech society is aging and according to statistical predictions, this trend will continue in the future. These predictions indicate that the percentage of dependent seniors in the population will only increase. For this reason, informal care for the elderly will always be very important, because the social system of the...
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Long-term Care And Non-formal Persons Caring For Clients
POUZAROVÁ, Dana
The aim of the diploma thesis themed Long-term care and the informal persons caring for clients is to identify both positive and negative aspects of the long-term care and its influence on physical and mental condition of persons taking care and their closest relatives. At first, the thesis deals with the issue of long-term care in the Czech republic and its division into two categories, formal and informal. Furthermore, the thesis presents the situation of the informal caregivers who have to face various obstacles arising from the nature of long-term care, such as their complicated relation with the formal institutions, lack of financial support, worsening of their lives' qualities and also lack of social recognition of their status. In order to retrieve the relevant information within the scope of the research question, the method using half-structured interviews was used. The research sample consisted of 7 female respondents from České Budějovice and its surroundings who were taking care of persons between the age of 5 and 71 years. The pesons suffered either physical or mental disorders. Some of them suffered both physical and mental disorder. At the beginning of the research the caregivers received two main questions. The first question was focusing on their perception of the current system of rules for informal caregivers, whether they support it or not. The second question aimed on describing the biggest positives and also the setbacks related to the care of person with some kind of disorder. The outcome of the interviews was that if a person decides to care of a close person with disorder there is a wide network of social services provided for him, even though it could be definitely improved. The issues which could be improved are primarily financial income of caregivers, accessibility and afffordability of relief services, providing more information and education for the informal caregivers, and last but not least the opportunity for caregivers' self-realization and their position at the labour market.
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