Hospice care in aware laic society on Prachatice

The bachelor work deals with issue of Hospice care and accompanying of dying. The work is divided into two parts. Theoretical part is written on the base of science literature and contains 4 chapters. The first chapter deals with all phenomenons related with death. It describes each stage of the process of dying and closer to the position of today´s society to death. The second and the vastes chapter considers Hospice care, its history, forms and funding. It is also focused on importance of volunteers, social workers and pastoral assistants as multidisciplinary team in Hospic. The third chapter represents palliative care, which is the main pillar of Hospice care. The forth chapter is focused on accompanying, communication and care of soul of dying and his family. The second pratical part comes from the theory and is based on research. There are determined two goals of the social research (if the laic society from Prachatice and near surrounding is aware of hospice care and if the businessman are willing help to Hosic of sv. Jan N. Neumann in Prachatice.). There are defined two hypotesis. In research were used questionnaires for two groups of respondents, for laic public and for businessmen. The total number of respondents was 145