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• Elderly care out from the care system: the challenges of family carers

  2-24.

  A. M. Tróbert

  Zs. Széman

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  373

  The overburdened long term care system increases the role of family carers in taking care of older adults. Undertaking the role of care put a great burden to family carers and cause many negative effects to the family roles, the field of employment and to the carers’ personal physical and mental health too. The formal care system solely focuses for the need of care receivers and hardly find services targeted to family carers. This study, using the analisis of ten family caregiver interviews, overlaps the main difficulties they are facing.

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• Application of Hungarian version of Test Your Memory (TYM-HUN)

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  A. Égerházi

  Z. Gy. Kovács

  É. Magócs

  G. J. Szőllősi

  Sz. Harsányi

  Sz. Garbóczy

  L. R. Kolozsvári

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  1125

  The change in brain functions is a natural consequence of aging, e.g. difficult to recall names, to remember numbers, to learn new things. However, mental decline and dementia are not part of natural aging. Dementia is primarily a disease of the elderly. Neuropathology of Alheimer’s dementia starts long before the clinical symptoms of dementia, part of a mild cognitive impairment (MCI) might be due to this. At this stage, recognizing the cognitive dysfunction may give the opportunity to slow down the progression, respectively as soon as causal treatment becomes available, it could be used. The Hungarian version of "Test Your Memory" (TYM-HUN) is a suitable short self-test test for screening dementia and is also expected to be useful to detect MCI.

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• Dementia and family. The role of Alzheimer cafe in reducing the burden of caregiving families

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  G. Kiss

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  222

  In the last years, the international researches have turned towards families caring for elderly people with dementia /see the works of Zarit et al. 1985, 2005; Aneshensel et al. 1995; and Kaplan 1996/. The majority of these researchers analysed the stress burden of the caring family member and its consequences, role conflicts, and the tensions in the caregiving family (Zarit et al. 1985; Aneshensel et al. 1995; Kaplan 1996; Zarit et al. 2005). The revelation that in terms of Romania, we know nothing or almost nothing about the burden of families caring for elderly people with dementia and its effect on the primary carer, played was an important factor in the choice of topic. This is why, in a vast empirical analysis, in Transylvania, 50 interviews and questionnaire surveys were made with people caring for elderly with dementia in their own homes and 50 families whose relatives with dementia have been moved to a long-term residential home in the past 12 months from the time of the survey. Gathering data took three years (2015–2017). The research included the inquiry interview with the primary caregiver family member, in which we assessed the functional barriers and the psychosocial difficulties (Szabó 2000). The analysis of the levels of social skills was built upon this, and it unfolded the main characteristics of self-sufficiency, existing social skills, and social adaptation. This survey pointed out the everyday tasks in which the client requires help. With regard to family care, we have also analysed the independent living ability of people with dementia. These three angles offered the guidelines for the assessment of “objective burden” of the caring family member. Reviewing the distribution of caring tasks within the family is based on this, which helps us finding out who the key persons are, the ones undertaking the primary caregiving duties. For analysing the formation of roles within the family, we have devised our own criteria (Szabó–Kiss 2015). Starting from the objective burden, in regard to the “subjective burden”, we have obtained valuable indications about the emotional effect of caregiving family member. The detailed assessment of self-sufficiency through which we have analysed the measure of functional degradation of people living with dementia, was added to the devices of the analysis (Szabó 2000). The internationally approved scale of memory and behavioural problems (Zarit 1985) is connected to this, which measures the distractive attitude of the person living with dementia and its effect on the primary caregiver. The survey of the primary caregiver’s burdening is also connected (Zarit 1985), and so is the assessment of the negative and positive attitude towards the caregiving tasks (Farran et al. 1999). A six-step focus group is added to the devices of the research, in which the primary caregivers, by hearing each other’s cases and following thematic questions, open up more easily about the critical periods of caregiving and the pivotal factors of institutional placement.

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• Alzeheimer cafe – the cafe of acceptance: -opinion article-

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  M. Szilvásiné Bojda

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  120

  The article shows the basic principles of the Alzheimer Café movement and it provides information about the fist experiences of the initiated movement in Nyíregyháza town.

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• Gerontofitness - the beneficial effects of regular exercise on the physical and mental health of aging people

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  A. Csinády

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  297

  Exercise plays a vital role in lifelong development, so it is very important in the elderly. Those who exercise regularly enjoy a better cardiovascular status, their motor capabilities remain more satisfactory, they complain less of depression, sleep disorders, and stay more confident and more independent even in older ages.
  Recreational sports have expanded the sport to the everyday people, for whom the goal is to provide the fitness needed for everyday life. The new concept gerontofitness, emerged recently, which deals with the sporting activities of the elderly and the beneficial effects of those.
  Nowadays a new goal is to create programs that encourage older people to exercise regularly. At the same time, there are many obstacles to these, because the physical activity of the elderly is partly influenced by cultural factors, stereotypes and attitudes, mostly in the direction of inactivity.

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• The role of active ageing in the consumer protection

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  A. Bene

  K. Balázs

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  247

  Worldwide recognized the high prevalence of deceit aimed at elderly individuals (Boush,
  Friestad és Wright, 2009; Valant, 2015). Following the active middle-age, aging individuals
  perceive several physiological and psychological changes. Naturally, these changes do show
  individual differences. The aging generation members’ typical communication related and
  social features are to blame for these deceptions, unethical abuse of the vulnerability. Elderly
  individuals are more susceptible to persuasion than younger adults (Visser és Krosnick,
  1998).
  In the present study, we summarize features appeared in the literature which can establish
  older people’s vulnerability. Furthermore, we report an interview-based-study, in which the
  examinees shared their experiences on suspicious offers.

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• The effects of animal assisted activities to elderlys’ distress

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  Z. Virginás

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  222

  Animal- assisted therapy (AAT), a type of therapy that involves animals as a means of treatment, has been discovered by the American psychologist Boris Levinson, 1960. The aim of this study was to determinate how animals can improve person’s emotional and physical well-being. The participants in this study were 111 people. Each participant was evaluated before and after the AAT intervention using objective psychological methods: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS, Lovibond, 1995, set of three self- report scales designed to measure the emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress). In summary we can report the following result which could be valuable in the field of psychological science, that animals may be used in therapy dealing with depression, anxiety and stress.

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• The role of aestethics in the „active ageing”: (A téma szubjektív vázlata példákkal)

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  B. Boga

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  163

  Gerontology includes all disciplines related to man from the point of view of how they touch the old people, in other words: all human sciences have their gerontological chapter. Maslow assembled the hierarchy of human needs among which he ranged the aesthetic needs as well. This paper at first deals with the topic of how the aesthetic need changes in the course of ageing concerning the own body, the environment and the artistic (visual and musical) experiences. The aesthetic stimulation has or can have outstanding role in realization of „active ageing” paradigm and promotion of quality of life, it can be used voluntarily for this purpose. The aesthetics can open way toward the spiritual sphere, it can be very important in old age.

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• The role of volution and social effects in grandparental care

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  A. Csinády

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  154

  The role of grandparents is very important in our lives both as parents and as grandchildren. The care provided by them is an emotionally influential experience that also serves as an attachment pattern. The grandparents, especially the grandmothers, have had a role in the survival of grandchildren since ancient times. Presumably it was the postmenpausal women, the grandmothers, whom made it possible that human children began to have a long developmental period, which is of great importance in human cognitive evolution.
  However, there are a number of questions about grandparental help, answered by researchers with both evolutionary and social explanations. These studies take into account how the grandmother's role appeared during human evolution, what factors influence grandparental help and how the parents and grandchildren will relate to it.

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• About the questions of consumer protection of elderly people: Kerekasztal beszámoló

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  Á. Bene

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  128

  Round table discussion on elderly consumer protection issues.

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