The thesis Seniors´ position in society is focused on the social issues of age and aging in society. The aim of the thesis is to determine how generations (young generation, generation of middle-aged and seniors) perceives the seniors. The theoretical part of the thesis gradually explains the key terms that relate to the issues. Individual chapters are focused on the developmental stages of life, the demographic trends, the aging and age, the age and seniors, the quality of life of seniors, seniors and society, seniors and families and seniors and the state. In the practical part of the thesis is an analysis of statistical data with focusing on the demographic aging. Within the framework of empirical research was used qualitative method. In the practical part of the thesis the interviews with representatives of the young generation, the generation of middle-aged and seniors were analyzed. The analysis is divided into thematic units such as perceptions of aging, age and seniors, the perceptions of the quality of life of seniors, the leisure times of seniors, the society in context with old age, the media in context with old age, intergenerational relationships and family and Czech Republic's pension system. The results of the empirical research are summarized based on research questions.

A social rehabilitation in the Seniors´ Home Máj in České Budějovice A social rehabilitation is a complex of activities encouraging an independence, self-sufficiency and social integration of clients of the Seniors´ Home. An aim of the thesis is to evaluate a progress of the social rehabilitation in the Seniors´ Home Máj in České Budějovice. A qualitative research was carried out to achieve objectives of the thesis. Five clients were chosen in order to determine a subjective evaluation of the social rehabilitation. Semi-standardized interviews were conducted with them. An observation method was applied at their engaging in activities in the Seniors´ Home as well as at seniors outside this facility, and a method of document analysis. Obtained information has been contained in case studies and they were analysed by using a grounded theory. Semi-standardized interviews were also conducted to find out attitudes of the professional staff and managers to the social rehabilitation. Factors affecting clients´ social functioning were also monitored in a course of the observation. Information from the interviews with the staff and the observation were again analysed through a method of the grounded theory. The thesis confirms findings of similarly oriented researches. It shows that the course of the social rehabilitation is influenced by institutional, personal and economic influences. The effect of applied methods and techniques of the social rehabilitation depends on an approach of the staff as well as clients and a quality of the clients´ social relations. The research has proven that an integration of clients in the facility as well as outside is supported by a wide offer of leisure time activities. Even if the clients in the Seniors´ Home have enough opportunities for mutual meetings, they are not usually successful in establishing a fully-fledged friendship and they often feel lonely. Although there is encouraged self-sufficiency per clients´ individual needs in the Seniors´ Home Máj, therapeutic activities are conducted and clients participate in physical activities, their level of self-sufficiency reduces. Results of the diploma thesis are stimulating for the staff of the Seniors´ Home Máj as well as for other social service founders and providers.

Dissertation deals with the problem of seating furniture and its evaluation in terms of typology, ergonomics, safety, quality of design, used materials, ecology and other properties important for its optimal use and function in the public interior. It defines methodology for its evaluation and appropriateness of use in the given interior and for a given purpose. Ageing population brings the need for adjustment of the interior; the work clarifies the requirements for creating of non-discriminatory environment from the point of view of people with limitations and seniors. Proposal to amend the regulations is based on the analysis of normalized values, the results of the current anthropometrical survey and addition of parameters that were processed by using ergonomic software.

Presented diploma thesis titled "Activation in the care of seniors" deals with the issue and the use of activation aktivities in nursing care of seniors in homes for the eldery in the South Bohemia region, Central Bohemia Region, West Bohemia region and in tha Vysočina region. The main objective of this diploma thesis was to map out what activation activities are used by nursing staff and what activation activities contribute to the self-sufficiency of the clients in the homes for elderly. The theoretcal part of this diploma thesis contains an information about the age and aging issues. Further part of the diploma thesis is dedicated to the definition and characterization of the notion of activation and description of the role of nurses in the care of seniors. It also approaches using of communication, motivation and sensual activation from the nurse's point of view. The following objectives have been set: Identify nurse's share of senior activation in providing nursing care in homes for elderly and also identify, which activities in the context of activation in nursing care are expected from family members of seniors from nursing staff. To achieve the goals have been set following research questions: Which activities are used by nursing staff in the context of activation in the providing of nursing care? How do activation activities contribute to the self-sufficiency of clients in seniors homes? What are activation activities from the perspective of family members expected from nurses? To achieve the objectives was chose a qualitative research, and the research sample consisted of nurses and family members. The results showed that the activation of providing nursing care to seniors is really important to them. Under the notion of activation, the nurses imagine the clients keep their self-sufficiency. An important factor that greatly affects the activation process is the lack of qualified staff in the homes for the elderly. Therefore we supposed that one of the possible solutions how to improve the activation in nursing care is to increase the number of professional and qualified staff. The research also showed, nurses activate the clients with the support of communication, mobilization, but also with the help of all day activities.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2001-11-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:34:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 dominguez_garcia_me_mar.pdf: 401348 bytes, checksum: 1715a8be4ba43e311791038ffbb960a3 (MD5) / Com o início do novo milênio, o Brasil passa por profundas transformações na sociedade. Estima-se que, em 2025, a cada cinco brasileiros um terá 60 anos. Os jovens de hoje estão preparados para lidarem com as novas tecnologias. No entanto, as gerações anteriores, consideradas atualmente da Terceira Idade, não tiveram esta formação e estão vivendo numa sociedade altamente informatizada. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos: Caracterizar o usuário potencial da Terceira Idade, quanto ao uso da Internet nos grupos da UNATI-UEL e do SENAC-Londrina; Identificar a utilização da Internet por usuários da Terceira Idade; Verificar se a Terceira Idade está familiarizada com a Internet e Detectar os sentimentos e aspirações dos usuários da Terceira Idade diante da Internet. A metodologia utilizada nesta pesquisa foi de estudo de caso, sob um enfoque quantitativo-qualitativo. Utilizamos questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas, diferentes para cada instituição estudada. Os resultados obtidos nos permitem concluir que: 1) ambos os grupos pesquisados compreendem a importância da utilização da Internet nos dias de hoje; 2) esta oferece maior facilidade e comodidade na realização de suas tarefas diárias; 3) traz informação e estimula a criatividade. / With the beginning of the new millennium, the Brazilian society is being transformed. It is believed that, by the year 2025, one in five Brazilian citizens will be 60 years old. The youngsters are prepared to deal with new technologies but the previous generations, which are currently considered to be the elderly, are not. In fact, they live in a society which is highly technological. Based on these facts, the purposes of this research are: to characterize the potential elderly user as for the use of the Internet in UNATI - UEL and SENAC - Londrina groups; to identify the use of the Internet by the elderly; to verify if the elderly are familiarized with the Internet and to detect their feelings and aspirations towards the Internet. The methodology used in this research was the case study under a qualitative-quantitative focus. A different questionnaire with open-ended and multiple choice questions was used for each institution studied in this research. The results obtained led us to the following conclusions: 1) both groups understand the importance of the use of the Internet nowadays; 2) it is easier and more comfortable for them to accomplish their daily tasks with the Internet; 3) the Internet brings information and stimulates creativity.

The prevention of seniors´injuries The injuries of people at seniors age have become one of the serious issues of today´s medicine, presenting not only the health problem but also the social one. The most seniors´injuries associates with falls and slips. The second main cause for injuries are the traffic accidents, the next one following upon are the accidents, which happen often at home during the casual activities. The intoxication at the old age is not rare either. The prevention of the falls and potential injuries is based on reduction of hazards of accident occurrence. The prevention, which leads to continuing reduction of the accident rate at seniors age corresponds with the goal no. 5 that is stated in the World Hospital Organization {\clqq}Health 21`` Document. The chosen exploratory method was the quantitative sociologic research based on on-the-spot requiries by the use of question form. The research sample of population consisted from seniors from 65 years old up (130 correspondents) chosen randomly in the region of České Budějovice within the year 2005. The data were all compiled in the Organization For Injuries Preventions in South Bohemia software program. Seniors faced the health hazard and injuries mostly at homes, which are mostly caused by restriction in movements. The most casual ones are the falls. The protective instruments and equipment, which might reduce the injury risks (for example non-barrier entries, skidding devices, bars and so on) still are not the standards for seniors today. The knowledge and understanding the emergancy phone numbers is not sufficient either. The possibilities of prevention for seniors are various, but have not been much exploited yet. It seems the seniors should be firstly adressed by public health employees, which they are in casual contact with and they usually rely on. The topic of prevention of injuries should be also more discussed at education programs destined for seniors.

The magisterial thesis deals with problems of seniors' pastime activities regarding the media, especially television. The theoretical part describes and explains what a qualitative research means, what this research aggregates, what the term media means, what kinds and roles we can distinguish amongst the media. The thesis aims on the importance of the media as well. This work draws from a theoretical knowledge and a self qualitative research in the practical section. The research is based on having qualitative talks with seniors. The work should find out what kind of media is preferred among seniors and why, or what role the media play in everyday life of a senior. This thesis is also focused on pointing out the fact that more seniors interest themselves in learning how to work with the internet and how they benefit from using the web. In addition, I would also like to show how the contemporary seniors spend their leisure-time and how the media participate in their lives.

This thesis deals with "Smoking of senior Citizens". Smoking of tobacco is the most significant reason of illnesses and early death in the Czech Republic. Reduction of smoking is a basic condition for decrease of deaths caused by tumour and cardiac diseases.The goal of the thesis is to monitor prevalence of smoking in senior citizens and detect their awareness of smoking. 206 respondents at the age of sixty and above paricipated in this research. 50 % of these people vrote that they had never snoked. 20 % of informants were active smokers, at the time of this survey, and 55 % of senior citizens wrote that they considered nicotine addiction to be a disease.The author tries to verify the hypothesis concerning smoking of senior citizens who suffer from chronic disease. 44 % of the respondents, who were active smokers at the time of the survey, suffered from chronic disease. The researcher uses the next hypothesis because she wants to confirm the fact that senior citizens have a positive attitude to prohibition of smoking in the restaurants and in public areas. The research verified this hypothesis - 72 % of the informants had a positive attitude to prohibition of smoking in public.

This research study investigates the lived experiences of eight Black women senior secondary school leaders (hereafter referred to as Black women senior leaders) so as to elucidate their understanding, perceptions and experiences of senior leadership. Educational reform has taken place in England during the Thatcher, Major, New Labour and Coalition governments, leading to significant changes in secondary schools in England. These changes have resulted in new leadership roles, challenges and high levels of accountability. Moreover, the role of headteachers and senior leaders have been widely researched and discussed (Brundrett, 1999; Bush et al. 2006; Lumby and English, 2009; Leithwood, 2009, 2012), yet the experiences of Black women senior leaders is absent from the literature, which has focused on the experiences of Black minority and ethnic teachers and leaders (Powney et al. 2003; Bush et al. 2006; Coleman and Campbell-Stephens, 2010; Johnson and Campbell-Stephens, 2014) A social constructionist, interpretivist paradigm was adopted for this thesis and, using an intersectionality lens, the complexities of Black women senior leaders’ multiple identities and experiences were explored. Sixteen transcripts were generated from two semistructured interviews with the participants and my own, to explore how their race; gender; and, social class intersect to shape their leadership perceptions, beliefs and behaviours. Moreover, this research study is interested in gaining a better understanding of how Black women senior leaders develop their personal and professional identities; the value they place on formal and informal leadership preparation, development and learning approaches; and, how they maintain professional relationships with colleagues. The key findings are presented under the three research questions where Black women senior leaders’ narratives elucidate the lessons they have learnt throughout their senior leadership journeys, which provide insights into their experiences, offering practical advice to help other Black women and colleagues considering senior leadership.

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo conocer la relación entre religiosidad y depresión en adultos mayores residentes de albergues en Lima Metropolitana. La muestra estuvo constituida por 150 adultos mayores, 88 mujeres y 62 hombres, con edades entre 65 a 90 años (promedio de 77,84 años) de Perú. Los participantes fueron evaluados con la Age Universal I-E 12 (Simkim & Etchezahar, 2013) y la Escala de Depresión Geriátrica (GDS-15) (Gómez-Angulo & Campo-Arias, 2011). Los resultados mostraron que el factor de Orientación Social de la variable Religiosidad presentó una correlación débil y significativa con la variable Depresión, mientras que el factor de Orientación Personal no mostró una correlación con la Depresión; rechazando así la hipótesis planteada. Asimismo, se obtiene resultados de las correlaciones entre las variables según las variables sociodemográficas. Se discuten las implicancias y sugerencias para futuras investigaciones. / This study aimed to determine the relationship between religiosity and depression of senior citizens living in retirement homes in the Lima Metropolitan area – Peru. The sample was composed of 150 informants: 88 women and 62 men, whose ages ranged between 65 and 90 with an average of 77.84. Two instruments were applied: Age Universal I-E 12 (Simkim & Etchezahar, 2013) and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) (Gómez-Angulo & Campo-Arias, 2011). Results revealed that the social orientation of religiosity has a weak but significant correlation with depression whereas the personal orientation showed no correlation with depression. Based on these data, the hypothesis is discarded. In addition, results of correlations among variables regarding sociodemographic record were obtained. Finally, implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.