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Specifics of nutrition in hospice care
Turková, Jana ; Starnovská, Tamara (advisor) ; Novák, Ondřej (referee)
Introduction: Hospice palliative care is provided to patients in the terminal phase of life with the aim of ensuring quality of remaining life with an emphasis on their individual needs and wishes. An integral part of palliative care is nutritional care and ensuring the patient's adequate nutrition. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the principles, standards and concept of development of palliative care, and provides a comprehensive overview of the types and forms of hospice care currently provided in the Czech Republic, and concludes with a consideration of nutrition and hydration in the terminal phase of the disease. In the practical part, the results of the questionnaire study are processed and presented. Objective of the thesis: The main objective of my bachelor's thesis is to determine whether an individual approach is applied to nutrition in the inpatient care of a selected hospice. The secondary objective is to discover whether patients in inpatient hospice care are satisfied with the nutrition and meals provided. Methodology: The project deals with research into the inpatient care of St. Štěpán's Hospice in Litoměřice. The research is designed as a questionnaire study. The data source is my own semi-structured questionnaire with 30 questions; 15 questions are closed, 13...
Differences and specifics of general and specialized home hospice care
ŽÁČKOVÁ, Hana
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of specialized hospice care and home health care. It describes hospice care, conditions of its provision, briefly characterizes the development of palliative and hospice care in the world and in the Czech Republic. The role of the multidisciplinary team in hospice care is discussed in more detail. The current legal regulation of the provision of specialized hospice care and home health care is described. The concept of specialized hospice care is illustrated on the example of the Home hospice St. Veronica in České Budějovice. Attention is paid mainly to comparison of specialized hospice care and home health care, with reference to the shortcomings of home health care, which in the present concept cannot be conceived as a full substitute or alternative to specialized hospice care. The main findings and findings are summarized at the end of the thesis.

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