The thesis deals with filing of conditions for providers of accommodation social services given by the new law about social services. The sample of providers was analyzed from the point of view of contents of the defined mission of service and its aims. Compliance with the main rules of the law was considered. The range and form of help and support given through social service have to preserve human dignity and derive from individual needs of service user. The help is aimed to support individuals in their self-independence, strengthen social incorporation and in appropriate quality, respect human rights and basic liberties. The selected accommodation services werw compared also in relation to the determined target group and age category.

The Master{\crq}s thesis deals with the problems of human relations between young people and seniors. Ageing and senior citizen problems list among burning issues in a society. Seniors meet young people very often in their everyday life. It is mainly mutual interaction with seniors, personal experience and other social and psychological factors that influence the attitudes of young people to seniors. Family as an institution plays a significant role in the creation of relationships among people. The objective of the thesis is to discover the quality of current relations between young people and seniors in the region of České Budějovice. The research focused on collecting information about the attitudes, opinions, experience and feelings of senior citizens and young generation in terms of their interaction in current society. Better understanding of the topic could have a positive impact on inter-generation relations between young people and senior citizens in a society.

O envelhecimento populacional é um processo universal, que não afeta apenas o indivíduo, mas também a família e a sociedade. No Brasil, o número de idosos está crescendo, o que torna necessário discutir sobre o exercício do cuidado destinado ao sujeito idoso, sobretudo o hospitalizado, bem como as perspectivas que este possui a respeito de si mesmo, dos familiares e dos profissionais cuidadores. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa qualitativa consistiu, assim, em conhecer e compreender a percepção do sujeito idoso hospitalizado a respeito de si mesmo e dos cuidadores familiares e profissionais. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa 19 idosos hospitalizados, com 60 anos ou mais, capazes de responder às questões aplicadas oralmente, a partir de um roteiro prévio, após várias observações, no período de 2007 e 2008, numa instituição hospitalar privada do RS. Tais respostas foram analisadas com base nas seguintes noções: conceitos e preconceitos relativos ao sujeito idoso; o autocuidado e o cuidado prestado por familiares e profissionais; perda de autonomia e institucionalização: a relação do idoso com o profissional cuidador; profissionais cuidadores da área da saúde; o profissional cuidador e a profissional cuidadora: a desigualdade entre os gêneros; qualidade de vida e saúde dos profissionais "cuida(dores)"; o surgimento dos hospitais; a ética, o SUS e as políticas públicas de saúde do idoso. Por meio da análise dos conteúdos, chegou-se a quatro categorias, definidas pelas respostas e não pelas questões: 1) "o idoso fala sobre si e sua doença"; 2) "a percepção do idoso com relação ao cuidador: os âmbitos familiar e profissional"; 3) "percepção do idoso em relação à instituição hospitalar"; 4) "percepção do idoso com relação aos seus direitos e deveres". A partir das respostas analisadas, concluiu-se que muitos sujeitos idosos não tinham clareza sobre a "sua" patologia; verificou-se a esperança em relação à vida e à cura de sua doença geralmente associada à religiosidade e à fé; esteve presente, ainda, a preocupação de se constituir um paciente permanente, com dependência irreversível dos medicamentos ou dos "cuida(dores)", perdendo, assim, a sua autonomia como sujeito. Em relação à instituição, embora tenha se constatado um atendimento ético e parcimonioso, nem sempre isso foi evidenciado pelos sujeitos idosos. O idoso com patologias graves referiu sentir-se mais seguro no hospital por ter ali o apoio técnico indispensável, preferindo, nessa ocasião, o cuidador profissional. Apesar da intenção explícita nas políticas públicas em considerar o idoso como sujeito em uma nova fase de vida, com necessidades e cuidados específicos, verificou-se que os direitos dos idosos ainda são desconhecidos pela sociedade e por eles próprios. A geriatria, a gerontologia e os novos conceitos delas decorrentes não alcançaram, ainda, todos os profissionais cuidadores de idosos, e menos ainda os seus familiares. Daí a urgência de um processo educativo e educador em torno do novo paradigma que busca, entre outras coisas, "pagar uma dívida" para com os idosos e resgatar o sujeito que a modernidade relegou a um lugar periférico e de invisibilidade. / The population ageing is a universal process that does not affect only the individual, but also the family and the community. In Brazil, the number of senior citizens is increasing and because of that it is necessary to discuss about the care of the elderly, especially the hospitalized one, as well as to reflect about their perspectives concerning themselves, the family and the professional caregivers. The goal of this qualitative research was to identify and to comprehend the perception of the hospitalized senior citizen concerning themselves, their family and the professional caregiver. The research subjects were 19 hospitalized senior citizens - 60 years old or more - who were able to answer the oral interviews, which were performed, based on a previous script and after several observations, in the period of 2007 and 2008, in a private hospital in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The criteria used to subdivide the analysis in four categories were defined by the answers and not by the questions. Here they are: Talking about the senior citizens: some concepts and prejudices; The auto-care and the care rendered by family and professionals; Loss of autonomy and institutionalization: the relationship between the elder and the caregiver; Professional caregiver in the health area; From the female caregiver to the male one: the inequality between the genders; Life quality and the caregiver’s health; The hospitals beginning; Ethics and public health policies for the elderly. By the analysis of the contents, four categories were identified: first - "the elder speaks about himself and his disease"; second - "the perception of the elder regarding the caregiver: the familiar and professional scope"; third - "the perception of the elder regarding the hospital institution"; fourth - "the perception of the elder regarding their rights and duties." Based on the analysis realized, it was possible to conclude that many senior citizens did not have clearness about their pathology; the hope regarding life and the cure of the disease was almost associated to the religiosity and faith; the preoccupation of being a permanent patient, with irreversible dependence of medicines or caregivers, losing, thus, their autonomy. Considering the institution, although it was verified an ethical and parsimonious assistance, it was not always evidenced by the senior citizens. The ones with serious pathologies affirm to feel safer in hospital because of its indispensable technical support, desiring, so, the professional caregiver. Besides the explicit intention in the public policies of considering the senior citizen someone in a new phase of life, with specific needs and cares, it was not always verified, making it possible to believe that the rights of the elderly are still unknown by society and also themselves. The geriatrics and gerontology specialties and their new concepts have not reached, yet, all the senior caregivers or families. From that situation, there is the urgency of an educational process around the new paradigm that aims, among other things, to "pay a debt" to the senior citizen, rescuing the individual that modernity has relegated to a peripheral and invisible place.

Orientador: Antonia Dalla Pria Bankoff / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T18:13:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GallardoGreen_OrlandoSantiago_M.pdf: 294982 bytes, checksum: 5ea6fc1a4ecca7e9d25a0c8e4205568d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: O objetivo do presente estudo foi medir a Resistência Aeróbica através do Teste de Mazorra Zamora em adultas maiores, da cidade de Concepción¿Coronel - Chile, onde a mostra foi de pessoas voluntárias, selecionadas de um grupo de Ginástica para o Adulto Maior Ativas de: Caminho Olavarría integrada por 5 senhoras; um grupo de Ginástica do Departamento de Educação Física da Universidade de Concepción, integrada por 15 senhoras; outro grupo pertecente ao Consultório Víctor Manuel Fernández integrado por 24 senhoras e um grupo de 18 adultas maiores sedentárias do Club ¿San Francisco de Asís¿ de Coronel e uma adulta maior sedentária voluntária de Concepción. O Teste aplicado se caracteriza por dar resultados em distância recorrida num tempo predeterminado. Por otro lado, se utilizou estatística descritiva de média, desviação estándar e nível para caracterizar aos grupos e a aplicação da fórmula ¿t de student¿ que permitiu ratificar que há diferença significativa entre adultos maiores que praticam atividade física e aqueles adultos maiores que não praticam atividade física / Abstract: The target of the present study was to measure the Aerobic Resistance by means of the Mazorra-Zamora Test in senior citizens of the city of Concepción-Coronel ¿ Chile. The sample was made up of volunteers. The people were chosen from a Gymnastics-for-the-Active-Elderly group in the Camilo Olavarría neighbourhood (6 women); a Gymnastics Group from the Department of Physical Education of the University of Concepción (15 women); a group from the Víctor Manuel Fernández Health Care Center (24 women); a group of sedentary elderly women (18) from the San Francisco de Asís Club in the city of Coronel; and one volunteer, elderly, sedentary woman from the city of Concepción. The Test applied is characterized by its results given in reference to a certain distance covered in a predetermined period of time. On the other hand, average descriptive statistics, standard deviation and rank were used to characterize the groups and the application of the ¿t of student¿ Test, which allowed the substantiation that there is significant difference between seniors citizens engaged in physical activity and those who are not engaged in physical activity / Mestrado / Ciencia do Desporto / Mestre em Educação Física

This Diploma thesis is focused on the social group of seniors and deals with issues of activation programs, intergenerational contact and management of volunteers at the Center of activation programs (CAP) at Prague 8. The theoretical part provides the theoretical and methodological thesis on the definition and definitions related to the senior age, intergenerational relations description and presentation of the functioning of social services in the Czech Republic with an emphasis on activation services for seniors. In the following chapters the theoretical part is examined in detail and the issue of volunteerism is discussed as well as the possibility of activation of seniors. The practical part presents concrete proposals for new programs for seniors organized by the CAP including a detailed description of their implementation and operational solutions. Second part of the practical section is devoted to a proposal to streamline the management of volunteers at the CAP. Conclusion evaluates the proposed solutions and their contribution to the CAP and especially for their clients, which are active seniors from Prague 8.

We propose in this study to give a brief review of the workshop project as carried on at the Denton Senior High School, Denton, Texas, during the six-weeks summer session of 1940. While the purpose of this paper is not to give an evaluation of the program, we shall point out some of the best points and suggest a few items which might be improved.

The diploma thesis "Spiritual Care for the Elderly as a Part of a Holistic Approach" addresses the question of how the support of spirituality can help seniors to cope with the difficulties of their lives such as the transformation of social and work roles, the loss of a partner or other close people, illness and dealing with the topic of mortality and the end of life, which usually come at this age, if not even before,. We are thinking about whether spirituality only affects people of faith or religion, or is given in some form to everyone. Thesis is looking for possibilities and approaches to spiritual care also for people who have not been interested in spirituality during their lifetime, have not expressed devotion, or turned away from for some reason. The interes tis given how spiritual care is provided in various senior homes in Prague as part of a holistic view on elderly. This work demonstrates various forms of giving this care, its use and evaluation from the perspective of clients, but also employees, volunteers and clergy. Keywords age, senior, spiritual care, house for seniors, holistic approach

The topic of the diploma thesis is evaluation of the project "Don't get lost in old age". This project is focused on education and counseling in topics of aging. In theoretical part, I focus on description of current situation of old age and aging, summarize old age associated key problems to which the project tries to respond. I also describe the concept of dignity, clarify the needs of seniors and their families. I also mention the possibilities of social services that focus on the elderly or support the carers. The main topic of the work is to introduce and evaluate the consulting portal and all its activities. The project includes many professionals such as a lawyer, nutritionist, financial expert, psychologist and social worker. Range of areas of consultations is therefore wide. However, in order for the project to reach the public as much as possible, it is necessary to direct activities right, to promote the consulting portal and increase interest in the topic of old age and aging with it. In practical part, through interviews with experts and project participants, I evaluate the functionality of the project and I map where improvements would be appropriate. Using an evaluation questionnaire, I focus on client satisfaction with consulting and, based on statistics, I also evaluate the success...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between media use and body image in senior citizens. This study specifically targeted older people who participate in regular physical activity. Seniors participating in the 2006 Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah were surveyed concerning current body image and total media use. The sample included 691 participants. Lower body image scores were recorded among seniors who watched greater amounts of television. Magazine readership and body image displayed no relationship among men or women. Total media use did not influence body image scores among seniors. Male participants exhibited a stronger relationship than female participants between television use and low body image scores. Results indicated that males were vulnerable to messages targeting body image in a similar way to that of females. The findings of this study suggest that individuals may still be influenced by ultra thin images prevalent in media well into their older years.

År 2030 kommer det att finnas uppemot 500 000 fler individer över 75 års ålder jämfört med idag. Ungefär var fjärde person i åldern 75-84 år har en nedsatt rörlighet och många av dem bor i bostäder med låg tillgänglighet och anpassning för individens specifika behov. Den låga tillgängligheten bidrar till en försämrad boendesituation och kan i sin tur leda till sämre livskvalitet. Ensamhet är vanligt bland äldre och kan bidra till ökad oro, otrygghet och depressioner. Ensamheten grundar sig i en känsla hos individen av att sakna ett sammanhang där denne känner sig deltagande och upplever en gemenskap. En bostadsform där äldre möts kan återskapa denna känsla av gemensamhet och tillhörighet vilket kan bidra till ökad aktivitet och livskvalitet för individen. En bostad med högre tillgänglighet och kvalitetshöjande faktorer ger möjlighet till ett längre kvarboende för den äldre i den egna bostaden. Kvarboende bidrar till en ökad trygghet hos individen som tillåts åldras i den invanda miljön. Samhällskostnaderna förväntas minska med ökat kvarboende då kostnaderna för hemtjänst understiger kostnaderna för ett eventuellt särskilt boende för samma individ. Syftet med rapporten är att redovisa för den problematik som finns kring äldres bostadssituation och visa på möjliga förbättringsåtgärder. Målet är att visa en gestaltning av ett seniorboende med kollektiv inriktning som skapar gemenskap och trygghet för den boende. / Year 2030 there will be up to 500 000 more individuals over the age of 75 comparing to today. Approximately every fourth individual in the age of 75-84 have a reduced mobility. Many of them lives in houses with low availability and adaption to the specific needs of the individual. The low availability contributes to a decreased living situation and it can lead to impaired quality of life. Loneliness is common among elderly and can contribute to increased concern, insecurity and depression. Loneliness is often based on a feeling of missing a social context of participation and community. A form of housing were elderly meet can recreate this feeling of community and belonging which can contribute to increased activity and quality of life for the individual. A accommodation with a higher grade of availability and factors for increased quality gives a possibility for the individual to live longer in their own home. The remained living contributes to increased security for the individual who is allowed to age in a well-known environment. The social costs are expected to decrease if more individuals age in their own homes since the costs of home care are lower than the costs for retirement home for the same individual. The purpose of the report is to present the problems around elderly's housing situation and present improvements. The goal is to present the design of a senior housing with a cohousing alignment which creates communion and security for the residents.