Abstract
Population aging has economic, political and social consequences. Planning needs of long term care (LTC) and reflecting the number of professional caregivers responds to the demographic changes.
Although family caregivers dominate in many OECD countries including the Czech Republic, a number of professionals in these countries will double until 2050 (even triple in the Czech Republic). The need for the existence of quality institutions providing LTC setting is linked with good working conditions and health promotion of their employees.
Within the reflection of the current state of health promotion and working conditions of formal caregivers in the Czech environment, we conducted a qualitative probe (focus groups). The objective was to determine the subjective opinions of this target group to employers' efforts to promote their health by improving the working conditions.
The key theme included the level of workplace health promotion and related positive and negative factors affecting work performance.