The master thesis deals with the group of senior voters in the institutional care. Firstly, seniors may feel excluded from public life, as well as they may face a number of problems because of their age and worse health condition. Those factors might limit their interest in politics. Secondly, the retirement home environment plays very important role because it significantly influences self-conceptions of its clients. The study tries to find out the motives of seniors's electoral participation as well as their following political news across the media. Thesis is also concerned with the political agitation, campaign and discussions with politics, The aim of the thesis is also to describe the preparation, conduct and atmosphere during the elections in retirement home. Master thesis is also focused on the seniors' relationship with the younger generation, their children and grandchildren, and on seniors' reflection of their position in the society. Key issues for the thesis are how seniors ponder their future. Master thesis tries to describe processes of aging as well as the general specifics of senior relationship to the politics. For the research purposes, 12 qualitative interviews were carried out in retirement home "Pohoda Chválkovice" in Olomouc.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:325060 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Proksch, Pavel |
| Contributors | Linek, Lukáš, Grygar, Jakub |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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