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The specifics of education of the elderly and the importance of memory training
Benešová Štíbrová, Alena ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis concentrates on specifics of senior citizens' education and introduces memory training of seniors as an effective tool for retaining memory functions in the older age. This thesis defines terms such as aging, age and senior citizen. Furthermore it presents a brief demographic characteristic of the aging population and describes changes that people go through during getting old. In connection to these changes the thesis describes a concept of successful aging followed by a part describing education of seniors and memory training. The final part of the bachelor thesis is about using questionnaire metod in order to find out the utilization of knowledge from the course in everyday life and to find out how satisfied the participants were with the course.
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Leisure time activities in the Home for Elderly Tachov, Panenská
SLÁMOVÁ, Kamila
The aim of this bachelor thesis called "Leisure activities for Panenská nursing home in Tachov" is to map the satisfaction of the house's clients with the leisure activities provided by the nursing home. This thesis comprises of two parts - theoretical and research. The theoretical part copes with the ageing problematics, with the needs of old people, their leisure time and leisure activities and certain acquisition programs. This thesis aims generally on the problematics with the focus on nursing homes, especially Panenská nursing home in Tachov. The main method is the qualitative research. The target, methodology and schedule are further described in the thesis. The used methods of qualitative research is the interviewing with semi-structured interviews. The interviews were held with the clients of Panenská nursing home in Tachov. The research data files has been chosen by the intentional quoting choice. As a secondary method, the framework data analysis technique, word-for-word transcription and the cluster-creating method has been chosen. The research has shown that the clients are satisfied with the leisure activities provided by the nursing home but they would like to introduce several new activities -handcrafting and creative writing especially. The extension of the scale of the activities would lead to the fulfilment of the needs of the clients and furthermore to more effective use of their leisure time. All the above mentioned information are possible to further use as an information source about the leisure activities in Panenská nursing home in Tachov. This bachelor thesis will be used as a feedback for the mentioned nursing home. It might help not just to improved the function of the nursing home but to greater satisfaction of its clients as well.
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Artistic expression via methods of training memory and cognitive abilities in senior citizens.
ŠVECOVÁ, Dagmar
The thesis deals with the use of artistic expression in methods to train the cognitive functions of the elderly. The theoretical part includes a summary of findings about aging and old age and explains the importance of stimulating the elderly in our republic. It also deals with characteristic features of artistic expression and artheterapy for elderly. In the practical part methods are described which exploit artistic expression in enhancing cognitive functions not only in elderly people with dementia within the framework of the stimulation programme in old people's homes but also, by means of voluntary memory training courses. The author tries to ascertain the extent how art therapy methods can be applied in these programmes in such a way that the two approaches could complement, supplement and enrich each other.
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Memory training with senior citizens
CHOVANCOVÁ, Lenka
This is a theoretical work. It deals with the topics of senior citizens and the aging process in an abbreviated conception, periodization of old age, and active life of seniors. It describes forms of social work with seniors in medical facilities, home environments and communities, and in old people's homes. Further, it describes memory: its definition, types of memory, memory loss, reasons why people forget, work with memory and advice on memory improvement from the medical point of view. The last chapter focuses on memory training. It describes the aim of memory training with seniors, benefits of memory training, memory training in home environment and in complex care. Next there are particular mnemonics and exercises focused on individual areas (concentration, senses, speech) with examples. Memory training is one of the effective instruments of increasing self-sufficiency and prolongation of the senior independence.
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The Activation Programms for Seniors in Rychnov nad Kněžnou.
JIROUTOVÁ, Pavla
This bachelor thesis is aimed to the stimulating activities for seniors. Based on the Act No. 108/2006 Collection, On social services the stimulating activities belong among the basic activities when providing social services. The theoretical part consists of eight basic chapters. The first one outlines the characteristics of aging and old age. It is followed by social work with seniors because the whole thesis is engaged just in the seniors´ population. The third section contains the senior´s active life, its importance and the description of the active life in social services used by seniors. The left sections are engaged in the individual stimulating activities, such as motion activities, brainstorming, musical and art therapies. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to map the stimulating activities for the seniors in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. The partial aim is to find out the benefit of the stimulating activities for the seniors in Rychnov nad Kněžnou from the seniors´ point of view. There are two research questions in the connection with the thesis aims. The main research question is: What kind of stimulating activities for seniors are provided in Rychnov nad Kněžnou? The partial research question finds out what is the benefit of the stimulating activities for the seniors from the seniors´ point of view. For practical section of bachelor thesis I have chosen the quality research. I have used the questioning method and the technique of the semi-controlled dialoque, the secondary analysis of data, and the method of make the clusters. The selected group had 7 clients of the daily and weekly care centre of Parish charity in Rychnov nad Kněžnou where the research has been realized. The respondents have been chosen using the purpose-quota choice. The results are divided into two sections based on the research questions. The first section is concerned the data analysis of the organizations providing the stimulating activities for the seniors in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. The second section contains the respondents´ subjective opinions in the stimulating activities offered by the Parish charity in Rychnov nad Kněžnou within the daily and weekly care centre for seniors. The results are divided into the sections based on stimulating. The research has shown the stimulating activities for seniors in Rychnov nad Kněžnou are offered by two organizations ? Social services of the town Rychnov nad Kněžnou and the Parish charity in the same town. The stimulating activities provided with the seniors are as follows: motion activities, brainstorming, reminiscences, musical and art therapies, lectures, playing games, hobby clubs, learning a foreign language, social and cultural events. It results from the research realized using the dialogue with the clients of the Parish charity in Rychnov nad Kněžnou that the most visited activity are motion activities with brainstorming in which all the questioned people participate. For the question where they can see the contribution to train their memory, they answered as follows: they train their memory, they are in the contact with the others, they learn new information and so they fulfill their leisure time or this activity is a hobby of theirs. They feel training their bodies due to the motion activities. The reminiscences have proved to be a favourite activity for them, too. The reason is they like remembering the years they have lived. The musical and art therapies have shown to be less popular activities. The gained knowledge of this bachelor thesis will have been possible to use as the source of information about the stimulating activities for the seniors in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. The thesis will be used as the feedback for the facilities where the research has been realized.
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Memory training in the Centre for seniors called PATUP at the South Bohemia University, Faculty of Health and Social Studies
KOSOVÁ, Kateřina
The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the process of aging of cognitive functions, the brain, memory and its division, dementia syndrome, memory training and methods of memory training, the description of the Centre for the Elderly PATUP and courses of memory training. The main objective of the research part was to assess the courses of memory training in this centre at the faculty of Health and Social Studies of the University of South Bohemia. Partial objective 1 was to assess satisfaction of the elderly ? the participants - with the courses of memory training in the Centre for the Elderly PATUP. Partial objective 2 was to assess the courses of memory training from the trainers´ point of view. Partial objective 3 was to assess the courses of memory training in the Centre for the Elderly PATUP from the sponsor?s point of view. Partial objective 4 was to write a manual for memory trainers with a video recording with a sample lesson of the memory training course. To realize the research part of the thesis, qualitative research, the method of questioning, the technique of a semi-conducted interview and a technique of a focus group were applied. The research set consisted of 28 people who were divided according to the research questions in three groups ? memory trainers, the elderly (participants of the memory training courses) and the sponsor of the Centre for the Elderly PATUP. The research results, processed by SWOT analysis, showed clearly strong and weak points of the memory training courses and also showed recommendations from all respondents (the elderly, the trainers and the sponsor) leading to improvements of memory training courses. The thesis will contribute to creating methodology of the Centre for the Elderly PATUP and a methodological manual of MTC (memory training courses). The thesis also contributes to making MTC more efficient and will serve as educational material for memory trainers in the Centre for the Elderly PATUP.
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The usage of coloured version of Wartegg drawing test among seniors in centers of social services in the South Bohemian region
PLASSOVÁ, Michala
The bachelor thesis pursues the drawing display created by seniors while being examined by the coloured modification of the Wartegg´s drawing test. There is an introduction to the whole issue of graphic projective methods given in the theoretical part of this thesis, particularly the Wartegg´s drawing test, the old age as a stage of life and the biological and psychological changes during the old age. The thesis also briefly consults the issues of cognitive disorders, especially dementia and also reminds us of the superannuation being regarded as a social phenomenon. The empiric part contains the research which concentrates on the description of content and formal drawing signs among the seniors in the Wartegg´s drawing test and a following comparison of the seniors who undergo the cognitive practice and those who do not. The diagrams illustrate the results. The thesis made efforts to describe the signs which occur during the treatment of coloured modification of the Wartegg´s drawing test within the seniors and determine whether these signs differ among those who undergo and those who do not undergo the cognitive practice.
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The memory training by children, adults and seniors
KASTNEROVÁ, Markéta
The target of the work is to study the memory training by the children, adults and seniors. The work has a theoretical character. It describes the memory development from birth to the senior age, it characterizes the memory and its impairments by the children, adults and seniors. In context of aging process in our population there is a rumour about the memory training by the older age group. But it is necessary to be aware of it, that the memory training is important in every age and the sooner we begin, the better quality we retain in the older age. The work describes the techniques, which are suitable not only for the children of school age, but it targets the group of sucklings and toddlers too. The memory training is very important in prevention for our mental health and cognitive efficiency.
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EFEKT MEMORY REHABILITATION OF SENIORS IN CONSIDERATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE
HANČLOVÁ, Svatava
A cognitive rehabilitation is an intervention seeking to restore or compensate cognitive deficiencies with an aim to improve the everyday efficiency of the client. A part of the cognitive rehabilitation is a cognitive training that means a repeated drill and an effort to improve cognitive activities. The memory training is a combination of the cognitive training and relaxing psychomotor exercising. It also fulfills a social function because mutual get-togetherness and interactions happen in the course of it. The main tendency is to learn techniques and strategies leading seniors to an improvement of their memorizing, so that they could use them in their everyday life. The purpose of this work is to ascertain an influence of the cognitive rehabilitation on clients living in MÁJ Rest Home in České Budějovice. The chosen elaboration method of my bachelor work is an experiment. A level of cognitive abilities of the seniors was discovered by a pre-test at the beginning of the experiment. There were monitored results of various tests {--} MMSE, short-term memory, quality of life and everyday cognitive difficulties test. The level of the cognitive abilities was verified by a post-test at the end of the experimental action and test results were compared with the checking group. The research confirmed that the cognitive rehabilitation contributes to an increasing of the quality of life, an improvement of the short-term memory and to an easement of everyday cognitive difficulties.
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Memory training and reminiscent in the House for seniors St.Jiří in Pilsen
KRÁLOVÁ, Petra
In the diploma work named Memory and Reminiscence Training and in Domov sv. Jiří in Plzeň I deal with the above mentioned topic in theory and practice. The main aim of the work is to describe the aims, methods and techniques of the memory and reminiscence training by the seniors in the retirement home sv. Jiří. The partial objective is to state the benefits of the memory and reminiscence training from the point of view of the workers and residents of the retirement home. In the theoretical part I specify the issue of ageing and the old age and the issue of the memory and its components. Further to this part there is a description of the memory training and practical illustrations of the memory training and individual exercises. In the reminiscence part I deal with the specification of this term, the reminiscence therapy, the methods that support reminiscence and reminiscence boxes. The last chapter of the theoretical part deals with the failures in cognitive functions. In the practical part I give a description of the qualitative research in the retirement home of sv. Jiří where I carried out a course of the memory and reminiscence training within 15 meetings with the home residents. The research sample consisted of 10 seniors and 10 workers. For the research I used the half-guided dialogue method and the participant observation, and the research questions comprised of identifications questions, questions on memory training and questions on reminiscence. In the methodology part I describe the memory training methods, the course realization and the research sample. I also deal with the description of the retirement home of sv. Jiří and its establisher Městská charita Plzeň. As the outcomes of the qualitative research there are the case studies based on the carried out dialogues and the participant observation. In the discussion I comapare the achieved results of the research with the theory. I also describe my experience from the course of the memory and reminiscence training and its individual meetings with the seniors, I assess the opinions of the workers and the benefit of the memory and reminiscence training. In the conclusion I deal with the assessment of the whole work, especially its aim, and the benefits of the memory and reminiscence training in the retirement home of sv. Jiří in Plzeň.
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