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ironment and the elderly with deafness and hand of hearing starostnik – okolje | elderly – environment
Cvetka Pangerl
Srednja zdravstvena šola Celje, Ipavčeva 10, 3000 Celje, Slovenia
Introduction: Elderly people are a group of people, especially the deaf or hard
of hearing, who needs special care and help. Often, they are in care in a social
care institution, where employees have to be trained to work with such a per-
son. Besides staff, to the deaf and a hard of hearing person has to adapt the
environment, as well as the deaf or hard of hearing elderly must become ac-
quainted with the traps of life in silence.
Methods: In the survey was used a questionnaire, which was distributed to 240
respondents. We were interested in the opinion of the employed graduated
nurses and students of the Secondary School of Nursing Celje, regarding the
attitude of the environment to the elderly with deafness and hard of hearing.
Results: It is worth noting the difference between the attitude towards the deaf
and the hard of hearing in the past and today, especially in the field of social in-
tegration. Other major deviations in the opinions of the respondents are not
observed.
Discussion and conclusions: Hearing problems with such a person are reflect-
ed in the understanding of what has been said and heard their interaction in
the environment. They have a deficit in the sense of the senses, that is hearing.
In the survey, we studied the lives of deaf and hard of hearing people in the so-
cial care institution. To our satisfaction the deafness and hard of hearing now-
adays are better understood, and the environment is more lenient to the deaf
and the hard of hearing.
Keywords: elderly, deafness, hard of hearing, environment
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Cvetka Pangerl
Srednja zdravstvena šola Celje, Ipavčeva 10, 3000 Celje, Slovenia
Introduction: Elderly people are a group of people, especially the deaf or hard
of hearing, who needs special care and help. Often, they are in care in a social
care institution, where employees have to be trained to work with such a per-
son. Besides staff, to the deaf and a hard of hearing person has to adapt the
environment, as well as the deaf or hard of hearing elderly must become ac-
quainted with the traps of life in silence.
Methods: In the survey was used a questionnaire, which was distributed to 240
respondents. We were interested in the opinion of the employed graduated
nurses and students of the Secondary School of Nursing Celje, regarding the
attitude of the environment to the elderly with deafness and hard of hearing.
Results: It is worth noting the difference between the attitude towards the deaf
and the hard of hearing in the past and today, especially in the field of social in-
tegration. Other major deviations in the opinions of the respondents are not
observed.
Discussion and conclusions: Hearing problems with such a person are reflect-
ed in the understanding of what has been said and heard their interaction in
the environment. They have a deficit in the sense of the senses, that is hearing.
In the survey, we studied the lives of deaf and hard of hearing people in the so-
cial care institution. To our satisfaction the deafness and hard of hearing now-
adays are better understood, and the environment is more lenient to the deaf
and the hard of hearing.
Keywords: elderly, deafness, hard of hearing, environment
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