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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of euthanasia education on the opinions of health sciences students. It was performed among 111 final year students at the College of Health Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey. These students train to become paramedical professionals and health technicians. Fifteen hours of educational training concerning ethical values and euthanasia was planned and the students' opinions about euthanasia were sought before and after the course. Statistical analyses of the data were performed with the related samples t-test by means of the Epi-Info program. Significant changes were shown in the students' opinions on people's right to decide about their own life, euthanasia in unconscious patients, and reasons for their objection to euthanasia after completing the course. The results of this study suggest that education can significantly change a person's approach to euthanasia.

ÖzGeleneksel olarak tüm dünyada aile bakımı yaşlının bakımında etkin bir role sahiptir. Aile bireylerinin bakıma muhtaç yaşlının bakımında geleneksel rolleri devam ederken, ülke ekonomisi bakımından da güçlü katkılar sunmaktadır. Yaşlı nüfusun artması ile birlikte artan bakım harcamaları karşısında sosyal politika düzenlemeleri içinde ailenin bakımda etkin rol almalarını sağlayacak düzenlemelere daha fazla ağırlık verilmeye başlanmıştır. Bu çalışma, yaşlıların uzun süreli bakımında rol alan aile bireylerinin bakım hizmetinin görünmeyen maliyetinin ekonomik boyutunu ortaya koymaya yönelik bir derleme çalışmasıdır. AbstractAgeing societies, together with pressures to restrain the growth of public expenditure, have led to policymakers stressing the importance of the family, friends and neighbours as having an important part to play in the care of the frail elderly. This paper reviews the informal care costs for older people, considers the impact of caregiving on caregivers and tries to estimate the economic value of informal care and the costs that having to devote time to care imposes on the economy. On this basis, it seeks to place a value on the input provided by informal caregivers. It also tries to assess costs to the economy of reliance on informal care costs that should be set against the savings made from the absence of public provision.

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The proportion of older people in Turkey is increasing steadily with a subsequent growth of long-term care (LTC) needs. There is a scarcity of formal care provisions for residential and particularly nonresidential settings. Thus, formal caregiving is not meeting LTC needs nor attracting workers as a labor option. The authors examine the hypothesis that LTC may offer work opportunities for women unfamiliar with caregiving as an occupation, and also examine the need and acceptance of different types of LTC beyond residential care. The authors evaluate an innovative project introducing these two elements to 76 women in İzmir, Turkey, using an analysis framework that incorporates factors related to applications and progression; management assessment; trainees' self-assessment reflecting on their views on aging; and older people's perception of the experience and its impact on their well-being. Trainees reported a major positive shift in their attitudes toward working in LTC and toward the aging process. Users reported discovering a new dimension to care, which directly affected their quality of life. Overall, this community-based initiative appeared effective in enhancing the awareness of the concept of adult day centers providing a social model of care, and appears promising in addressing the growing need for formal LTC in Turkey.