INTRODUCTION:The development and improvement of medical and social services for people with disabilities is one of the indicators for providing life quality to elderly people. Training of geriatric specialists is one of the ways to overcome the deficiency of professionals possessing specific knowledge and skills to take care of elderly and aged people, with or without disabilities. During their training, the students, majoring in Geriatric Care acquire professional competencies for work with elderly and aged people with or without disabilities (visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, etc). Formation of communication competence in students is an important part of the professiogram. The curriculum envisages diverse training methods, facilitating the formation of skills required for communication with patients, in conformity with their individual characteristics and system of values.
Abstract:The influx of migrants to European countries, including the Republic of Bulgaria, is constantly increasing from regions experiencing military conflicts and countries that are economically undeveloped. At present, the Republic of Bulgaria is regarded by asylum seekers as a transit state on their route to the economically developed European countries. The people seeking asylum in the European Union have different sociocultural, ethnical, religious, and health cultures. These differences make their adaptation to their new environment difficult and the situation creates economic, social, and health problems for the accepting countries. The enforcement of uniform European standards and laws for social and health integration of migrants facilitates the process and protects the local people from infectious diseases and social-economic problems. The analysis of documents of the European Union, from international and Bulgarian organizations, shows policies have been developed to guarantee the rights of individuals, seeking protection. A major issue for the successful adaptation of migrants is their unwillingness to observe the laws and regulations of the countries where they settle.UDC Classification: 614.1, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v4.788
Было проведено анонимное анкетное исследование с выборкой, сформированной по случайному принципу, у 186 больных сахарным диабетом 2-го типа (из них 105 женщин и 81 мужчина) из города Стара Загора, Болгария. Целью исследования было изучение мнения опрошенных лиц с сахарным диабетом о необходимости предоставления им всесторонней помощи и социальной поддержки для повышения качества жизни, об их желании проконсультироваться на дому со специалистом патронажа больных диабетом, о тех темах, по которым они хотят пройти консультацию, а также об уровне их информированности насчет осложнений нелеченного сахарного диабета, симптомов гипогликемии и гипергликемии, о готовности опрошенных лиц пройти обучение для приобретения знаний о том, как жить с диабетом и на какие темы они предпочитают пройти обучение. Стало ясным, что у пожилых людей с диабетом появляется потребность в уходе за здоровьем, в социальной поддержке для повышения качества жизни. Более половины опрошенных респондентов старше 65 лет (52 %) с диагнозом сахарного диабета нуждаются в предоставлении им разного рода помощи, социальной поддержке и патронаже медсестры на дому для целях повышения качества жизни. Бо́льшая доля (60 %) опрошенных лиц хотят быть проинформированными насчет их лечения, тогда как 50 % - насчет питания, 39 % - насчет двигательной активности, а 50 % - насчет осложнений диабета. An anonymous random survey of 186 diabetic patients over 65 years of age with Type 2 diabetes (105 women, 81 men) from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, was randomly conducted. The opinion of the diabetic patients has been studied about the need of help (health and social) to improve their quality of life with diabetes; their desire to be consulted by a health care professional in a home environment; the topics they would like to be consulted; their awareness of the complications of untreated diabetes; the degree of awareness of the symptoms of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia; their rediness to be included in training to acquire knowledge of a life with diabetes and preferred learning themes. It turns out that elderly with diabetes report having a need for health care and social support to improve the quality of their life. More than half of the surveyed respondents (52 %) over the age of 65 who were diagnosed with diabetes need health and social assistance and nursing home patronage to improve their quality of life. A high percentage (60 %) of those surveyed also need information with regard to the treatment; 50 % with regard to nutrition, 39 % with regard to exercise and 50 % with regard to the complications from diabetes.
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