Школа соціальної роботи ім. професора Володимира Полтавця

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    Support for elderly people with dementia in the lifelong education system
    (Varna University of Management, 2023) Tymoshenko, Nataliia; Romanova, Nataliya; Martovytska, Nataliia
    The rapid increase in the number of elderly people with dementia requires the development of new strategic approaches to their care, since the existing support concerns a rather narrow medical segment of treatment. In addition, caregiving is a rather burdensome task for those who perform it, problems of "social ageism", social exclusion and a certain stigma on the part of other peopleisquite common.Accordingly, the systematization of modern theoretical ideas about dementia, description of its manifestations and symptoms, generalization of information about modern forms of work and features of care and support of elderly people with dementia are aimed at solving the mentioned problems.The description of the forms and methods of work in the process of care at different stages of the dementia development is an important part of the specialists’training in the process of lifelong education. A new paradigm about the importance of creating dementia-friendly communities is formulated and problems that require more detailed scientific research in the future are identified. This actualizes the search for ways to develop the adult education system, stimulates the necessity to improve the quality of educational services, provide different categories of the population with equal access, opportunities and freedom of choice in lifelong education.
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    Supported housing in Ukraine during the war
    (2023) Kabachenko, Nadiya; Boyko, Oksana
    Supported housing is an alternative to a large number of boarding schools, psychoneurological dispensaries for people with disabilities and institutions for elderly people which are still acting in Ukraine, and, due to the war, there is a tendency to its growing. Supported housing envisages a significant level of inhabitants’ independency, but, at the same time, provides relevant support for them. The importance of such support is being significantly increased during the wartime when a large number of people, in the first instance those who belong to vulnerable populations, loose their house, relatives and close people, who might be providing them with the relevant support in case of other circumstances. Thus for the purpose of the study it was important to explore how the Ukrainian state regulates the number of institutions where supported living is organized and to understand what creates barriers for creation and development the units for supported living in communities. Based on the study outcomes it is possible to state that the number of such institutions acting in Ukraine is quite small. One of the most important reasons for the above is that the standards developed by the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine which the place for supported living has to meet are quite high. In addition, according to the requirements, accommodation for 6-12 persons has to be provided by a large number of personnel, specifically, an administrative and economic personnel, social workers, home assistants and a psychologist. There are lots of communities which are not able to provide relevant requirements, especially within the war conditions when there is a large lack of resources, both material and human ones. Thus, it’s very actual, in the first instance, to simplify the relevant requirements, to organize training that would ensure an opportunity to community representatives to arrange supported living for their inhabitants and to prevent them from being accommodated to the institutional facilities.