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Social work with people with neurodegenerative diseases
KUČEROVÁ, Žaneta
The bachelor thesis is focused on people with neurodegenerative diseases, specifically on people with spinal muscular atrophy. The aim of this thesis is to explore the impact that social work has on the lives of people with SMA. Social work intervenes in the lives of people with this disability from an early age, through Early Care and Continuing Institutions that focus on this group of people. Other social services that intervene in the lives of people with SMA include: respite services, care services, personal assistance services, social activation services for families with children, social therapy workshops, social counselling etc. The theoretical part initially focuses on neurodegenerative diseases. It defines the different types that fall there. It is important to mention that not all of them are listed and I follow with a chapter of neuromuscular diseases focusing on muscular dystrophies, where the individual diseases are described and the disease of spinal muscular atrophy is more specified and the subchapters break down the different types. In the next section I try to build on social work in general and get down to the services used by people with disabilities and get down to the state social support system and what benefits they can draw on (care allowance, mobility allowance, special assistance allowance, TP card, ZTP, ZTP/P and ZTP parking card). Towards the end of the theoretical part, I described the benefits of health insurance for people with disabilities, foundations and public collections, which make a significant financial contribution to these people. The research part was conducted based on a qualitative research strategy. The data that emerged from the interviews were categorized as follows. A semi-structured interview technique was used to collect the data, which consisted of 14 open-ended questions. A total of 6 individuals who have spinal muscular atrophy and were willing to participate. The interviews were conducted at a psycho-rehabilitation camp in Pluhův Žďár, which is sponsored by the patient organization SMÁci z.s.
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Individual planning as a tool of quality increasing social service of personal assistance in people with disability and seniors in Praha
SEDLÁKOVÁ, Kateřina
This diploma thesis is concerned with individual planning with regard to the social service of personal assistance. The theoretical part contains a description of the origin and history of personal assistance in the world and in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part elaborates in detail on the no. 5 standard of quality of services provided and its four criteria. It also provides an overview of existing approaches toward individual planning of the social service of personal assistance for the target group of people with physical disabilities and seniors, including their positives and negatives, which the system of individual planning brings to providers of the social service of personal assistance and its users. The diploma thesis had two goals. The first was to ascertain the value of individual planning for users of the social service of personal assistance. The second was to assess the benefits that individual planning brings to organizations that provide the social service of personal assistance to people with serious physical disabilities and seniors with regard to improving the efficacy of the work of their employees. The practical part is based on qualitative research, with the main method of data collection being semi-structured interviews. The results showed that users do not see a major change in the way personal assistance is provided after the introduction of the individual planning system when compared to the situation before. Users mainly appreciated the fact that assistants are well-prepared even before the provision of assistance starts. This factor was unequivocally praised as a positive and a reason why individual planning should be introduced. In conclusion, the only negative aspect of individual planning for the employees was considered to be a higher administrative load, which, however, they were able to handle in the end, according their responses. On the other hand, both groups considered the greater level of preparedness of the social workers ? personal assistants during their social work a big benefit.
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Availability of banking products to persons with disabilities
Silberhornová, Lenka ; Půlpánová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Radová, Jarmila (referee)
This thesis investigates the availability of banking products to persons with disabilities. It presumes that they don't fully utilize available products and investigates reasons of this situation. The first section provides core definitions, including those of banking products, consumer protection and financial literacy. Chapter 3 focuses on describing disabilities. The next section presents two pieces of research. One focuses on selected banking institutions, comparing results of surveys from 2007 and 2012, the other presents findings from interviews with representatives of people with disability. Recommendations towards improving the availability of banking products to persons with disabilities are also offered.
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Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Disabled Persons
POLÁKOVÁ, Zuzana
The diploma thesis is concerned with the spiritual needs of disabled persons. The topic is based on the psychology of personality, characterizes human needs, and defines motivation, values and interests. Basic areas of psychology of religion and religious education follow. The educational view focuses on issues associated with the religiosity of human beings seeking aims for religious education. Further chapters are dedicated to disabled persons, describe basic types of such disability and based on the author´s personal experience they show the specificities of the life of disabled persons. The second part concentrates on meeting the spiritual needs. The thematic area gives rise to the methodological proposal for the didactic opening of the spiritual needs. Several didactic units containing individual lessons for a group of disabled persons form part of the thesis.
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