Vplyv alkoholickej závislosti seniorov na život a starostlivosť v zariadení sociálnych služieb
Impact of Alcohol Addiction on Life and Nursing Care of Seniors Living in Senior Care Centre

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on an increasing number of seniors who are addicted on alcohol while providing social services in a senior care centre due to poor health conditions, suffering from disability, or the need of helping care from another person, because they can not take care of themselves. Alcohol addictions is not only about a set of negative impacts on the physical health of the senior, but also means the worse mental well-being, poor social status or low quality of life, on the other hand, it causes an increased risk to the staff of the facility in providing social services. Alcoholic addiction has been confirmed in those seniors who have had previous past experience with alcohol addiction or had been treated, the most of them do not overcome negative traumas experienced in the past, have low motivation and low resistance to mental stress and coping strategies. The most of seniors declared good feelings connected with alcohol addiction giving them space to relaxation, to escape from reality, or negative life feelings associated with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and loneliness.

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