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CARING FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE By László Bakonyi Home
director Hungary
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Demographic data

• Based on demographic data the population of the
  world reached 6.1 billion until 2001 and it
  increases by 1.3, that is to say by almost 80
  million every year

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Demographic data

• The population over 60 of the world reached half
  a billion and the people of 80 and over reached
  10 within that

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WHO defined the life sections lately as follows

• 50-60 years of age the age of transition,
• 60-75 years of age the age of aging,
• 75-90 years of age elderly age, above
• 90 years of age very old and above
• 100 years of age the age of Methusel

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Demographic data

• Hungarian demographic conditions
• aging and reducing population
• reducing families
• increasing number of divorces
• reducing number of children
• increasing proportion of women
• increasing mortality of men
• increasing number of womens chronic illnesses
• increasing exposure
• increasing regional differences
• increasing standard deviation regarding health
  and life quality and increasing risk.

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Demographic data

• The mortality risk of the elderly arising from
  chronic but non-contagious diseases was the
  following based on the surveys
• method of living 40
• harm caused by the environment 15-20
• genetic harm 20-25
• deficiency of the health care 15

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Demographic data

• The elderly belonging to the following groups are
  especially endangered
• older than 80
• elderly living on their own
• elderly in grievance for mourning or in
  depression
• elderly with mental disorder
• elderly that fell several times
• elderly with incontinence problems (urinary,
  rejections incontinence)
• those that cannot cope with the events of the
  latest period properly or successfully.

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The following forms of care belong to the basic
social services

• service provided by the village and farm warden
• meals
• support at home
• support given to families
• support given at home supplemented with a
  signalling system
• community care
• support service
• social work in the street
• day care

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Social services in small regions
The field of associations projected to small
locations

• professionalism the care can be insured to all
  the locations belonging to the small region based
  on uniform professional principles
• establishing and operating new services (legal,
  psychological consulting)
• separation of the family supporting and child
  welfare care in one location
• a harmonised co-operation should be created with
  the participation of a professional manager
  (supervision, discussion of cases)
• the quality of services has improved /
  employment, schooling of qualified workers
• the self-caring ability of the ones that use the
  service is increasing
• safe and economical, efficient operation

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Social services and task in small regions
Expected results

• the life conditions living in small regions are
  improving
• the self-care ability of the elderly is improving
• the number of people waiting for lodging
  institutions is reducing
• the mental condition of elderly people is
  improving
• the opportunity to acquire information is
  improving
• the needs are satisfied at a higher level

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The specialised care forms belonging to the
framework of personal care are the following

• the institution providing the care,
• rehabilitation institution,
• lodging home,
• institution providing temporary placement,
• other special social institution.

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Tasks of the institutions that undertake to care
for the elderly

• to assist in accepting the elderly age,
• to provide information on, to teach how to spend
  the inactive years actively,
• to facilitate the availability of the services
  customised to the needs of those that use the
  care,
• to create the daily life schedule and to
  facilitate the availability of services,
• to insure activities that serve prevention and
  rehabilitation.

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The staff of the elderly peoples homes work
based on the following basic values

• they insure the complete preservation of
  self-esteem and human dignity for the dwellers,
• the acceptance of their abilities and life
  experiences,
• they help keeping, increasing the dwellers
  external relations,
• they support the perfection of the emotional,
  social, intellectual abilities of the dwellers,
• they insure the right of free will and decision
  to the largest possible extent,
• they accept their emotions and the generation of
  their intimate relations,
• they care for the dwellers in a customised way,
  in consideration of their individual needs, by
  accepting their religious habits, ethnic and
  cultural traditions.

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Council for the Elderly

• The government operates a Council for the Elderly
  in order to improve the life conditions and to
  assert the interests of the elderly, which
  regularly transfers the difficulties, problems of
  the social care system to our countrys
  parliament. As the manager of the methodological
  institution it is my task to transfer the
  questions in connection with the care of the
  elderly arising in practice to the members of the
  Council for the Elderly.

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• What should a society be like where a human
  being can remain a human being even at their old
  age?
• The answer is simple the human being should be
  considered as a human being all over its life
• Simon de Beauvoir
• Thank you very much for your honourable
  attention!