The View of Family Members on Care Options for the Elderly with a Disability

The bachelor thesis deals with the topic related to the choice of a care about a senior. The theoretical part specifies the terms senior and disability and focuses on the issues of a senior and his/her family and the related multigenerational living, family care about seniors, health-social care about seniors and also on specific services for seniors. The empiric part was based on a structured interview, in which 8 multigenerational families living in one household from the Týn nad Vltavou region were addressed. We looked into the opinions of family members and seniors on the possibilities of the care about a senior in the research and consequently we compared their responses. The bachelor thesis reflects the difference between the opinions of seniors and family members with regard to the possibilities of the provision of care about a senior. Care provision in the natural setting is the wish of a senior, but this wish is not always identical with the opinion of a family member. Lack of information among the respondents leads to fears of institutional facilities or incorrect information and notion of the stay in such a facility. The lack of information was also obvious in the instance of the possibility of providing care to a senior when the family members rather showed worries in most cases. The respondents should thus be more aware of the possibilities of the care about a senior to be able to ensure a dignified old age for a senior, lived according to his/her ideas, so that it benefits the whole society