More and more older people today are facing dementia and it has a major impact on certain areas of their lives. In addition to affecting people with dementia, the disease also affects life of relatives and the caregivers. The theoretical part of my thesis is a presentation of dementia, how relatives of people with dementia experience it, communication with people that have the dementia and institutional care of those people. The purpose of my research was to investigate how dementia is coped with in the Home for older people Naklo, and how it's accepted. I researched the communication between people with dementia, their relatives and employees in the Home for older people. I also researched how openly do they talk about dementia, how much knowledge they have about the disease, where have they acquired the knowledge, how does dementia affect the relationships between everyone, the presence of fear and the overload for relatives and employees a like, what help is available for relatives in the home, how satisfied are the people with dementia with their stay in the home and what else would they require. The results showed poor knowledge about dementia with both relatives and employees of the home. They also showed the desire for more knowledge in that area. People with dementia don't know anything about their disease and have not been introduced to the knowledge about it. The relationships with people with dementia have changed and communication has become basic and alienated. The collaboration between employees of the home and relatives of the people with dementia is poor. People with dementia are visited only by their children and the result of that is a strong presence of loneliness. At the same time, the results also showed satisfaction with the care they are given in the home and the home itself. My suggestions are, to increase activities for people with dementia, to include volunteers for prevention of loneliness, to increase the social network and the involvement of relatives in the home, to organize lectures on dementia for relatives, and also lectures on dementia for employees several times a year.
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