Vpliv revščine na kakovost življenja starih ljudi v Zgornji Gorenjski

Zupan, Maja (author)

V diplomskem delu sem v teoretičnem delu najprej predstavila revščino med starimi ljudmi, socialno zakonodajo in socialno varnost. Nato sem se dotaknila socialnovarstvenih prejemkov in pravic starih ljudi. Zanimala so me socialna omrežja starih ljudi, vloga družine z vidika socialnega dela in kakovost življenja ter zadovoljevanje potreb starih ljudi. Dotaknila sem se tudi načina in strategij preživetja starih ljudi pri reševanju revščine. Za raziskovanje sem uporabila kvalitativno raziskavo, v katero je bilo vključenih osem oseb iz enočlanskih in veččlanskih gospodinjstev v urbanem oziroma agrarnem okolju različnih občin Zgornje Gorenjske. Moj glavni cilj je bil raziskati, kako imajo stari ljudje zagotovljene osnovne pogoje glede materialne varnosti, kako se je spremenil finančni položaj po upokojitvi, poznavanje socialnovarstvenih pravic starih ljudi, pridobivanje informacij le-teh in vpliv sprememb socialne zakonodaje na življenjski svet starih ljudi. Zanimale so me tudi strategije preživetja starih ljudi, ki so neposredno vezane na pojav revščine. Ugotovila sem, da so stari ljudje s trenutno življenjsko situacijo zadovoljni in svoje finančno stanje označujejo kot dobro. Na upokojitev se niso pripravljali, čeprav ima prehod iz obdobja zaposlitve v obdobje upokojitve negativen vpliv na finančno stanje posameznika. S socialno zakonodajo so seznanjeni, informacije pridobivajo iz različnih medijev. V večini primerov starim ljudem neformalno pomoč zagotavljajo sorodniki, s katerimi so v dobrih odnosih in imajo z njimi pogoste stike. Prav tako bi se nanje obrnili tudi v primeru finančne stiske. Stari ljudje živijo skromno življenje in za soočanje s finančno krizo uporabljajo odrekanje in racionalizacijo potrošnje, kot je pridelovanje hrane doma in varčevanje pri nakupih. V prihodnosti bi bilo treba vzpostaviti več medgeneracijskega sodelovanja. V lokalnih skupnostih bi bilo potrebno starim ljudem zagotoviti brezplačno pravno in finančno svetovanje ter osebe za svetovanje glede socialnovarstvenih pravic. Kaže se tudi potreba po medsektorskem sodelovanju, povezovanju in soustvarjanju rešitev.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: stari ljudje, upokojitev, revščina, socialna varnost, socialna omrežja, strategije preživetja
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Organization: FSD - Faculty of Social Work
• Year: 2020
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-116857
• COBISS.SI-ID: 22257923
• Publication date in RUL: 13.06.2020

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Impact of poverty on the life world of older people in the Upper Gorenjska region

Abstract

In the theoretical part of this diploma thesis, I first present poverty among older people, social legislation and social security. Then, I focused on social security benefits and the rights of older people. I was interested also in learning about social - networks of older people, the role of the family in terms of social work, the quality of life and fulfilling needs of older people. In the end I took interest also in survival strategies of older people solving poverty. For the analysis, I used a qualitative research, which consisted of eight persons, in the same or joint household in urban or agrarian environment of different communities of the Upper Gorenjska region. My main goal was to investigate how the older people are guaranteed with the basic conditions for material security, how the financial position has been changed after retirement, knowing the social rights of older people, getting the information about them and effect of changes in social legislation on lives of older people. I was also interested in older people’s survival strategies that are directly connected to the problem of poverty. During the research, I learned that most older people are satisfied with their current life situation and they mark their financial status as good. They weren’t preparing for retirement, even thought the period from employment to retirement has a negative effect on financial status. They are aware of social legislation and they got the information from different social medias. In most cases the financial help is given to older people by relatives, who are in good relations and keep regular contacts. They would also trust them in case of financial crisis. Older people live a humble life and for facing in financial crisis they disclaim and rationalise consumption of food production at home and save on purchases. In the future it would be necessary to establish more intergenerational collaboration. In local communities it would be needed to provide free legal and financial consoling and persons for consoling social security rights. You can also see the need of intersectional collaboration, connecting and creating compromises with solutions.

• Keywords: older people, retirement, poverty, social security, social – networks, survival strategies