The article is focused on the key problems of long-term care provided to disabled seniors above 65 years of their age and disabled children in the Czech Republic from informal carers' point of view. The research is based on 25 semi-structured interviews with informal carers. The results show a serious shortage of (social and health care) services generally as well as for informal carers alone, shortage of useful information and medical devices. In some cases, insufficient coordinative and informative role of general practitioners and paediatricians is also a problem. The informal carers also criticised poor coordination of medical and social care in the Czech Republic., Dobiášová Karolína, Kotrusová Miriam, Hošťálková Jitka, and Literatura
Narůstající počet závislých osob seniorského věku si vyžaduje adekvátní reakci ze strany sociálně zdravotní péče o tyto osoby. Jde zejména o hledání optimálního nastavení spolupráce mezi formální a neformální péčí, a dále o rozvíjení vhodných forem péče - terénních, ambulantních i pobytových služeb a služeb zdravotních a sociálních tak, aby na sebe navazovaly a dokázaly pružně uspokojovat aktuální potřeby seniorů a jejich rodinných pečujících. Článek se zaměřil na situaci v oblasti sociálně-zdravotních služeb určených pro seniorskou populaci v hlavním městě Praha (HMP) ve srovnání s dalšími re - giony ČR a identifikoval nejvýznamnější neuralgické body současného systému dlouhodobé sociálně-zdravotní péče v HMP. Využívá kvantitativní i kvalitativní metody, na jejichž základě byla podrobně analyzována existující nabídka sociálně-zdravotních služeb v HMP a byla reflektována očima zúčastněných aktérů, tj. uživatelů služeb a jejich rodinných příslušníků, poskytovatelů a zadavatelů sociálních a sociálně zdravotních služeb. Výsledky kvantitativního i kvalitativního výzkumu ukazují na závažné deficity jak v nabídce těchto služeb, tak v jejich vzájemné propojenosti., The increasing number of dependent seniors requires an adequate response from long-term care system for these citizens. This mean a search for setting of cooperation between formal and informal care, and need for appropriate forms of long-term care (field care, outpatient care and residential services) There is an increasing need for health and social services to relate mutually and cooperate flexibly, so that they would appropriately meet the current needs of seniors and their family caregivers. The article is focused on long-term care for the senior population in the capital Prague in comparison with other Czech regions and identifies the most neuralgic points of long- term care in Prague. It uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse in detail supply of long-term care services in Prague from the point of view of main stakeholders. Results of the qualitative and quantitative research show serious deficits both in services offered and their interconnection., Mgr. Kotrusová Miriam, Ph.D., PhDr. Janečková Hana, Ph.D., Mgr. Ing. Angelovská Olga, Mgr. Dobiášová Karolína, and Literatura
Czech health and social services have undergone significant changes related to the reform of public administration including the transfer of certain social and health services to the competence of municipalities and regions. Regions also became legally responsible for social services ́ planning process including their registration and since 2015 financing. The findings in the article are based on a qualitative methodological approach, which was used as a combination of public policy documents analyses and primary data analysis. The empirical research was based on focus groups when respondents represented persons caring for the elderly and disabled people as well as providers of health-social services in the Central Bohemian Region. Based on the survey we can state that some types of services are underdeveloped, particularly the domiciliary services, social services for older children and adults with disabilities, respite care and other support services for caregivers. The great problem is the absence of interconnection between health and social services in the region. From the viewpoint of service providers and caregivers the level of municipalities is perceived as closer to the clients than regional level, thus service providers and caregivers aim their demands to municipalities more frequently. and Kotrusová Miriam, Dobiášová Karolína, Angelovská Olga