About Death and Dying
Dying and death is currently an updated topic about which we should think, speak, and that both
in a general and especially in a professional way.Zobrazit text
Sociální práce s umírajícími
Dying and death is currently an updated topic about which we should think, speak, and that both
in a general and especially in a professional way.Zobrazit text
In their paper the authors consider the importance of educating workers of helping professions, i.e. professions working with people and for people in the area of thanatology and keeping company with the dying people and the mourners.Zobrazit text
In the past decades the interest in the hospice and palliative care has rise up in the western countries, but also in the countries of Middle and Eastern Europe including Slovakia.Zobrazit text
Caring for a patient in palliative care includes caring for his/her family. Caring for a dying relative is very demanding, limits the working process, family life and social relations, and is often connected with physical and psychological vulnerability.Zobrazit text
The paper analyzes the context of dying and death. This situation is perceived from the perspective
of social work as a difficult life situation. Stakeholders are not just dying client and his or her family, then the survivors, but they are also accompanied by the team of professionals.Zobrazit text
The issues of dying, death and mourning influence also children even more that adults are aware
of. The connection of childhood and death may seem nearly paradoxical and may associate almost contradictory breach because childhood is perceived as a joyful period of life and death as the final stage of human being.Zobrazit text
Relief for mourners can be provided by nearly anyone, but guidance for mourners requires more –
the guide must satisfy certain demands. To carry his or her role competently, the guide must be prepared for it in both theoretical and practical ways.Zobrazit text
The author of the text looks into the role of rituals in the mourning process. Within the following overview statement, the author defines “transitive ritual” in which specific categories of separate and consecutive phases are distinguished in accordance with Arnold Van Gennep (1909).Zobrazit text
This article inquires into the comparison of the range of motivational components’ congruency used or present in the practice and documents of a specific non-profit organization and the real needs of its employees.Zobrazit text
Title of this article is: How do elderly people perceive the end of life? Paragraph is interested in a question how is the end of life constructed in the biographical narrations of seniors. Zobrazit text
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