Long-term care for the elderly and persons with disabilities from the perspective of informal carers
2013
Abstract
The article is focused on the key problems of long-term care provided to disabled seniors above 65 years of their age and disabled children in the Czech Republic from informal carers´ point of view. The research is based on 25 semi-structured interviews with informal carers.
The results show a serious shortage of (social and health care) services generally as well as for informal carers alone, shortage of useful information and medical devices. In some cases, insufficient coordinative and informative role of general practitioners and paediatricians is also a problem.
The informal carers also criticised poor coordination of medical and social care in the Czech Republic.