Factors influencing the (non) use of social services – from the point of view of family members from selected municipalities of the Moravian-Silesian Region who provide care and guardianship for a loved one with an intellectual disability

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<a href="https://kont.zsf.jcu.cz/artkey/knt-202204-0009_faktory-ovlivnujici-ne-vyuzivani-socialnich-sluzeb-z-pohledu-rodinnych-prislusniku-z-vybranych-obci-moravsko.php" target="_blank" >https://kont.zsf.jcu.cz/artkey/knt-202204-0009_faktory-ovlivnujici-ne-vyuzivani-socialnich-sluzeb-z-pohledu-rodinnych-prislusniku-z-vybranych-obci-moravsko.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32725/kont.2022.034" target="_blank" >10.32725/kont.2022.034</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Factors influencing the (non) use of social services – from the point of view of family members from selected municipalities of the Moravian-Silesian Region who provide care and guardianship for a loved one with an intellectual disability

Original language description

Despite the fact that caregivers see social services as an important form of support, in the Czech Republic we are increasingly encountering situations where a person with a disability lives together with their parents in the same household until the caregiver becomes elderly or dies. These families use the bare minimum of social services or none at all. The goal of this paper is to present factors identifying the (non) use of social services from the perspective of family members from selected municipalities of the Moravian-Silesian Region who provide care and guardianship for a relative with an intellectual disability. The data was obtained through field research, which was carried out in 2021 in six municipalities in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Twelve individual and five group semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 communication partners. The data analysis was performed using constructivist grounded theory. Results and discussion: Most of the communication partners prefer caring for a loved one in the form of home care. The reason for refusing to use social services is negative previous experience with social services, namely dissatisfaction with the quality. The issues that family members deal with when providing care and guardianship are: coping with demanding care, fatigue, isolation, loss of social contacts with friends and family, dealing with missing social relationships, the future housing of a loved one, and maintaining contact with the cared for person. To be able to take into account the individual wishes and possibilities of each client, it is necessary to focus on the coordination and networking of support at the community when planning social and follow-up services. Person-centered planning should be offered as a suitable starting point.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kontakt / Journal of nursing and social sciences related to health and illness

ISSN

1212-4117

e-ISSN

1804-7122

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

316-323

UT code for WoS article

000905574300008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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