Case study - role play, tips

 Watch the videos and read the text. Write down 10 tips for successful social interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIURx2HrSRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5DP_q8iAQ
http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/field_education/forms/2011-2012files/Social_Work_Skills.pdf

Care Homes and the Elderly in the UK

Video links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SiSnoY6MFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYbZg_mktA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLckFBAEkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtfidR1Ovu4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB0uPouIcXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrNpX913KkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFG1jtf6Zdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvQtjY3-bcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DvYE12CM0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDOJxKxNKsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekux5CdlZsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0VMdxtYw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWlGLFoWrUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoYaiqkV_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9KL2J-bgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnFC1zFHVmI

Aged care (Documentary)

Watch the video and write in 10 sentences what it is about.

Elderly housing, safety and nutrition

Watch the videos and write in 15 sentences what they were about.

Elderly Housing - Skilled Nursing Homes

Elderly Home Safety

Elderly Nutrition - Why Proper Nutrition is Important for Seniors

Seniors

Describe the video in ten sentences.

Write 10 sentences about:

1. senior social problems 2. senior diseases 3. senior free time activities 4. retirement  5. changing of appearance in the old age
 

Alzheimer’s plan struggles - Text 5

Alzheimer’s plan struggles

A Sue Ryder Home aims to provide specialized care in separate facility. The history of the Sue Ryder Home in Prague is a story with some unexpected twists. Sue Ryder Care o.p.s. is a London-based international charity organization, “providing specialized health care to people with disabilities and life-shortening diseases.” Lady Sue Ryder, the charity’s founder, served in the UK as an operator for operations in occupied countries during World War II. After the 1989 revolution she sent Tom Noel to scout Prague for an appropriate location for a senior care facility. He soon made the acquaintance of Nováková and by 1994 they had secured the historic 15th-century Michelský dvůr building to renovate for the home.

B In 2002, three years after the senior care facility in Prague 4 was established, a private donor stepped forward to finance a new building for Alzheimer’s patients. Plans were drawn up, construction commenced, and the facility was expected to open. Unfortunately, money for the Alzheimer’s project ran out after an initial investment of 18 million Kč, leaving a shortfall of 12 million Kč and a half-completed structure at the back of the Michelský dvůr.

C The home has two nursing departments with 56 places for clients for temporary and permanent stays, with an average resident age of 86. With front and back courtyards, a garden, a chapel, community centre, and a restaurant offering diabetic-friendly cuisine for seniors, the home offers an alternative to institutionalized senior care. But what makes the Home unique is that it offers specialized geriatric nursing training for health-care workers, family support, cultural activities, in-home care, and a day-care facility, which offers a variety of activities, including pottery classes, memory games, birthday parties and canis therapy.

D Alzheimer’s patients require specialized, round-the-clock care. Often the only option is to place the patient into a public mental facility, which Nováková says is like a death sentence, as most patients die within a few months. Nováková estimates that 5-6 percent of all people in the Czech Republic over the age of 65 suffer from Alzheimer’s or dementia. Current estimates of occurrences of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in the Czech Republic have them at similar levels to the rest of Europe, according to Nováková. Which means the problem is equally prevalent here, but there are far fewer resources for coping with the diseases than in Western countries.

E Because the Czech Republic is now considered to be “quite developed” by the UK-based Sue Ryder Foundation, their funding priorities have moved to less-developed places such as Kosovo, Malawi and Albania. At their Prague facility, the client contribution for full-time residency is about 250-300 Kč per day, while actual costs are closer to 900 Kč per day. The Sue Ryder Foundation UK now expects the Czech Health Ministry to make up the shortfall.

make acquaintance – seznámit se

scout – pátrat

shortfall – deficit

twist – zlom

1) Read the article and match each of the headings to a paragraph.

1 Amount of ill people

2 History of Sue Ryder Home

3 The funding has been stopped

4 Money for the project ran out

5 Description of the Home

2) Read the article and answer the questions.

       1 What is the article about?

2 Who runs the Home and where is it situated?

3 Describe the Home.

4 What is the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease?

5 What are problems of the Home?

3) Explain the following words.

1 disability

2 permanent stay

3 diabetic-friendly

4 in-home care

5 dementia

4) Answer the following questions.

What are types of care for seniors? What are differences among them like? What are pluses and minuses of seniors staying at home?

Adjusted to:

http://www.sue-ryder.cz/en

Caring for the elderly - Text 4

Caring for the elderly

A Anyone who is healthy, under 40, and living in a developed country now has a good chance of surviving past 100. But surveys show that many people show that many people think that old age means only boredom and mental and physical decay, and do not see any advantage in this.

B The medical problems associated with old age are classified by gerontologists under the four Is (also known as “The giants of Geriatrics”):

·         intellectual impairment / confusion,

·         immobility,

·         instability,

·         incontinence.

These problems are seriously disabling, and elderly people are often highly dependent on nursing care. Many are bedridden. Neurodegenerative diseases, sleep disorders, depression, problems with eating, and skin breakdown are the main areas of research and hot issues for the elderly and for the people who take care of them. Physical and emotional abuse by relatives and care staff is also receiving attention from health authorities and the police in a number of countries.

C Studies show that chronic impairments in elderly people such as deafness and muscle weakness are frequently mistaken for failing mental abilities. Thus, an elderly woman admitted to Accident and Emergency Department after a fall may be referred to a social worker to judge if she is able to take care of herself, whereas, if she were 40 years younger, there would be a full medical investigation.

D Gerontologists argue that it is possible to grow old and die without losing faculties to dementia. But while many believe that “old” is just a state of mind, in reality factors such as the loss of a lifetime partner, and a sense of uselessness and social isolation after retirement, tend to make the elderly more prone to apathy and depression, which increases vulnerability to disease.

E Elderly people can be very demanding to nurse. They can often be inattentive, with disorganized thought and speech, and disturbed behaviour. But geriatric nurses have to build meaningful relationships with the elderly patients in long-term care. They should be patient, enthusiastic, and understanding towards their problems.

confusion – zmatení

decay – úpadek

disabling – vyřazující

faculties – schopnosti

impairment – zhoršení

inattentive – nepozorný

prone – náchylný

vulnerability – náchylnost

1) Read the article and match each of the headings to a paragraph.

1 Referring elderly people to be mentally disabled

2 Introduction

3 Depression brings about to a disease

4 Problems of old age

5 Relationship with a nurse

2) Read the article and answer the questions.

       1 What is the article about?

2 What are the four Is?

3 What are typical problems of old people?

4 Do we behave differently to a forty and eighty years old woman? If yes how and why?

5 What causes depression of elderly people?

6 Describe a good geriatric nurse.

3) Explain the following words.

1 deafness

2 Accident and Emergency Department

3 lifetime

4 gerontologist

5 enthusiastic

4) Answer the following questions.

What are typical problems of elderly people in the Czech Republic? What are their typical diseases? What helping medical aids do they need? What kinds of pension do you know?

Adjusted to:

GRICE, Tony. Oxford English for Careers : Nursing 1 Teacher's Resource Book. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. Caring for the elderly, s. 30.