Profese online 2011, 4(1):1-5 | DOI: 10.5507/pol.2011.001

UNSUITABLE TREATMENT WITH THE ELDERLY FROM FAMILY RELATIONS IN THE NURSING HOMES

Kateřina Ivanová1, Radka Bužgová2, Ivana Olecká3, Darja Jarošová2
1 Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2 Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
3 Department of Social Sciences, Moravian University College, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Aim: On the basic theoretical and references framework of sociology of family submitted research study was to find out the experience of direct care staff with unsuitable treatment with the elderly from their family relations. The study is one of the partial aids of an extensive research that is aimed at elderly abuse in institutional setting.

Background: Placing an elderly person into an institutional care is an intervention into family life as a whole. Though this situation can be very painful by many families there can be found cases where an unsuitable treatment of the elderly can be detected not only during the care in the family but also after his or her placement into the residential institutional care.

Methods: Qualitative part of the research was carried out through the phenomenological research method. Quantitative part of the research was carried out through a questionnaire survey.

Results: The qualitative data pointed mostly at financial abuse of the elderly from the family relations. That was not confirmed in the quantitative part of the research. Based on the results of the quantitative part the most common form of harassment is psychological, then financial and then physical abuse.

Conclusions: The elderly living in residential care homes tend to become a risk group for abuse and harassment. It is clear that the relationship with their family is very important for taking in the dignified aging for the elderly. That is why it is important to concentrate at work with the client as well as at work with the family.

Keywords: family relations, institutional care, unsuitable treatment

Published: April 2011  Show citation

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Ivanová, K., Bužgová, R., Olecká, I., & Jarošová, D. (2011). UNSUITABLE TREATMENT WITH THE ELDERLY FROM FAMILY RELATIONS IN THE NURSING HOMES. Profese Online, 4(1), 1-5. doi: 10.5507/pol.2011.001
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