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Support of Cognitive Skills of Seniors of in Residental Care Homes
Kňavová, Kristýna ; Felcmanová, Lenka (advisor) ; Šiška, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the possibilities of supporting the activation of cognitive abilities in the elderly. The work is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of the aging process of an individual with an emphasis on changes in cognitive functions and the possibility of supporting their stimulation. In the practical part, the results of qualitative research are presented, in which data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with workers and clients of four homes for the elderly and supported by deliberate observation of the activation of cognitive functions. The main goal is to gain an overview of the content and forms of activation activities with a focus on cognitive functions in the selected devices. The goal is also to obtain an overview of the frequency, differentiation and effectiveness of the above-mentioned activation activities in the selected facilities and to create a general recommendation for facility staff with the intention of improving or supplementing the portfolio of provided activities. KEYWORDS 1. Age and aging, cognitive function, impairment of cognitive functions, development of cognitive functions, Dementia, institutional care
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Seniors adaptation after entering the Department of Social Services
ŘENČOVÁ, Jana
The bachelor thesis deals with the adaptation of seniors in a nursing home. It surveys how the seniors experience their arrival at the nursing home and what problems they face during it. Firstly, it describes the old age and the changes accompanying this period. It introduces social services available for the seniors. The most important point of the thesis is the adaptation to the old age and the process of a senior´s adaptation in the nursing home. It also deals with an issue of loneliness and the seniors´ interest in single rooms. The bachelor thesis contains a qualitative research in its practical part. It is a processing of half- structured interviews with 7 clients of the nursing home. These interviews offer a view of the clients´ first day in the nursing home and the beginnings of their adaptation. The evaluation of the adaptation and factors enabling or disabling this process is in the discussion and conclusion of the thesis.
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Ethical Dilemmas of Social Worker in a Retirement Home
TONAROVÁ, Pavlína
The diploma thesis focuses on the ethical dilemmas of social workers in homes for the elderly. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis presents the professional bases for the research conducted in nursing homes. Theoretical chapters that result from the issue of old age, types of provided care, and examples of services offered to seniors are supplemented by the practical part. This is based on the experience of individual social workers, with whom semi-structured interviews were conducted. The essential factors in monitoring are recurring situations of social workers which they perceive as difficult in relationship with a client as well as the client´s relations to the environment and family. All this fundamentally affects an individual's satisfaction with the place where they must spend their late life.
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Artephiletics in a retirement home
Zíková, Kateřina ; Hanková, Zdeňka (advisor) ; Linková, Marie (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to design and verify a set of activities for seniors using the methods of artephiletics. The main part of the work was to create activation exercises aimed on strengthening the self-confidence and self-awareness with the help of artistic expression. In the theoretical part, the terminological background from the field of gerontology, gerontopedagogy and artephiletics is clarified. This part is followed by closer characteristics of the specific social facilities, where the project was implemented and verified. The contents of the practical part are medallions of clients with whom the project was performed. The design of used exercises considers the individual psycho-motoric abilities of clients. This is followed by the realization itself with progress recording and self-evaluation with suggestions for changes and a partial evaluation of each activity. In the thesis conclusion an overall evaluation of the project and self- reflection is presented. The main object of the thesis was successfully fulfilled; the designed project was verified on two groups of seniors. According to clients' feedback, whole project proved to be meaningful and valuable. KEYWORDS Seniors, Ageing, Activation activities, Artephiletics, Visual arts, Reflective dialogue.
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The quality of life of carers providing elder care to non self-sufficient pensioners
Stratilová, Iveta ; Mareš, Jiří (advisor) ; Vachková, Eva (referee)
Name and surname of the author: Iveta Stratilová Institution: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Institute of Social Medicine, Department of Nursing Title: The Quality of Life of Carers Providing Elder Care to Non Self-Sufficient Pensioners Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Mareš, CSc. Number of pages: 147 Number of attachments: 5 Year of defense: 2016 Key words: senior, carer, stroke, old age and aging, non self-sufficiency, provided care In the theoretical part, this bachelor thesis ascertains quality of life of carers providing elder care to non self-sufficient pensioners. There are defined terms relating to the issue in question, i.e. senior, old age, caring person, non self-sufficiency, biological, psychological and social needs of a senior, stroke. The issues of caring people accompanying elder care are examined in detail. In the empirical part, the author studied life issues of five women providing elder care to non self-sufficient pensioners for the period of 2 to 5 years. The qualitative approach was used in this work - not standardized observation, narration and semi-structured interview. Acquired data were compared with each other and with scientific literature. Based on the results, the author purposes possible interventions that could facilitate care to...
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New Concepts and Models of Care in Residential Facilities for Elderly
Němcová, Kateřina ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Nová, Monika (referee)
Diploma thesis on the topic of New concepts and models of care for seniors in social service residential facilities is divided into theoretical and practical part. The initial three chapters are focused on problems of old age and ageing, needs of retired clients of social service residential facilities and concepts of long-term care for the elderly people in the Czech Republic. The fourth chapter forms a basic for this work. It describes selected approaches and models of the care that were applied mainly in western European countries and are being adopted by some of residential facilities in our country. The practical part of the thesis consists in quantitative research among social workers and staff of registered residential facilities. The aim of the questionnaire survey was to determine knowledge level of the individual concepts and models of care among employees and to find out to which extent the selected facilities apply new concepts and models in their everyday life. Because these new concepts and models emphasize an individual approach and constant improvement their application is considered a viral part of care for clients of old age. The conclusion of the research confirms that application of newly introduced concepts and models increased quality of provided services in 95,3 % of...
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The Importance of Care Services for Seniors Living at Home
ŠLEJHAROVÁ, Marta
This bachelor thesis focuses on the importance of care services for the seniors living in the home environment. The main objective was to find out how the needs of seniors are satisfied in connection with the provision of care service and to highlight the difference in the perception of the needs of seniors. The thesis consists of a theoretical part and a research part. The theoretical part is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with old age and more specifically with the demographics of aging, the definition of old age, the age breakdown of old age and changes in old age. The second chapter of the theoretical part deals with the needs of human beings and their classification. There are described biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs there. The third chapter deals with the relationship of the seniors and their families. It is divided into three sub-chapters: the seniors family and its functions, the assistance and the care for the seniors in the home environment and advantages and disadvantages associated with home care for the seniors. The fourth chapter deals with services for the seniors and care servises. The research part deals with the importance of care service for the seniors who live in a home environment. The main research question was: How are satisfied the needs of seniors in the connection with the provision of care service? The main research question was divided into four sub-questions: How are fulfilled the biological needs of seniors living in home environment in the connection with the provision of care service? How are fulfilled psychological needs of seniors living in a home environment in the relation with the provision of care service? How are fulfilled social needs of seniors living in a home environment in the relation with the provision of care service? How are fullfilled spiritual needs of seniors living in a home environment in the relation with the provision of care service?The last research question: "How are fullfilled spiritual needs of seniors living in a home environment in the relation with the provision of care service?", was evaluated in such a way that the the spiritual needs of informers with reduced mobility are not sufficiently fulfilled. Despite the will and the care of the nurses, this is not possible, either because of the workload of nurses or their education. Parsons do not manage to cover all the needs of seniors. There are cases where seniors emphasize the complete absence of spiritual service. There are often times when seniors would welcome more spiritual services. In conclusion, we can say that for the seniors the care service has the greatest importance in fulfilling their biological needs and also satisfies their psychological and social needs. The spiritual needs of seniors with reduced mobility are, according to the research, not fulfilled.
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Curiosities in access radiological assistants to examination senior
KÁPLOVÁ, Kateřina
In the Czech Republic there is increasing the number of seniors so it can be assumed that in the future this will also increase the amount of radio diagnostic examination of seniors. By the time, when a person becomes the senior, he or she suffers from various ailments and quite often seeks professional help. An old person is very sensitive to dealing with him or her and because of that the aim of my thesis was to define how should the radiologist asistant behave to senior citizens. Today's population of people is facilitated and modern. But we must realize that those who are slower are living with us and for them it is harder to coordinate their movements and slow thinking. The theoretical work is concerned with the concepts of age and aging. An old man goes through various changes in old age. Seniors psychological, physical and emotional aspects are changing. It is important for the senior to overcome these changes and adapt for them. These changes are the main concern of gerontology. It is the science of aging, overall social relations in society to seniors and of course with a man of an advanced age as an individual with his individual needs and problems. Also this field deals mainly with the peculiarities of diseases in old age. Another issue is the most common diseases that affect seniors. A furthermore it deals with the communication and behaviour towards the elderly. In the practical part, I wanted to find out whether the communication between a senior and a clinician is at a good level, then whether they are informed by their doctor on what tests are going to and if not so, at least if the technician tells them what part of a body is he or she going to shoot. The result implies that 60% of seniors think they have a good experience with access to a radiology assistant, but not to good with the transmission of information. About 58% of seniors not get information from the sending physician and the technician not. There needs to be a change of both the doctor and the assistant
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