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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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Support for informal carers who care for seniors
Huňová, Jana ; Štegmannová, Ingrid (advisor) ; Lejsal, Matěj (referee)
1 Abstract Informal care is one of the important sources of the help and support provided at home to the seniors requiring the assistance from other people. This topic is highly relevant since it is linked to the growing need of long-term care of seniors reflecting the ageing of population in developed countries. The care provided by informal carers is important also because of the changes in the social services. The changes are related to the shift from institutional care of depending persons including seniors to the social services provided in the natural social environment. Such approach supports the autonomy of clients. This master degree thesis addresses the support of informal carers in the area of the care of non self-sufficient elderly people. The investigation is focused on the needs of informal family caregivers as for the information support, financial support, the support from the social services and the support expected from the services of long-term residential care. The thesis also deals with the motivation of the carers and their understanding of the social context of provided care. The research which is included in the empirical section of the thesis was implemented through qualitative methods, namely using semi-standardized interviews. The interviews with ten informal carers were carried...
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