The Long-Term Care Delivery in the Hospital of Pelhrimov and Its Quality

A year ago a discussion with the topic of the long-term care hospital, where the most numerous group of patiens is formed by older population, took place in mass media. I do not agree with the image of health resorts for the long-term sick presented to the public by mass media. I decided to demonstrate the functioning of good practice through the example of the hospital in the town of Pelhřimov and its section of curative rehabilitating unit. In the theoretical part of my dissertation I deal with the problems of ageing, gerontology and geriatrics. I also characterize a geriatrics patient.. Then I devote myself to the structure of helath services and their finance, to the brief description of the history of the Czech institutional care aimed at the historical development of the follow-up health care and its prezent state. The conclusion of the theoretical part is devoted to the concept of quality, to the definition of this concept, to the quality of health services, to the indicators of quality, to the accreditation and certification. The empiric part of my dissertation deals with the general description of the hospital aimed at the terapeutic rehabilitating unit, farther I devote myself to the qualitative research, to the metod of obtaining data, to the finishing complex of respondents and to the data..