Reqirements on the post of an educator of the elderly

Abstract

Education of the elderly is considered one of the ways of raising a person's personal dignity and thus their quality of life. Perhaps the most important factor in this process is the personality of an educator. It is the educator upon whom there are many requirements for the specification which is a subject of research and discussion. Despite this fact training of educators for the elderly education and cultivations of their competences is still very neglected and underestimated in the Czech Republic. The article deals with preparation of educators for programmes for the elderly and development of their competences in the Czech Republic with the aim to highlight the absence of unified formal preparation of the educator. The introduction of the article explains the author´s motivation for the stated topic. The next part is aimed at education of the elderly as such and its importance. The focus is on the role of the educator of the elderly and the present state of their education and development of their competences. Further, the progress of research results will be presented, which is directed at the analysis of lecturing activities of the individuals working with the elderly as well as parallel aims of stating their profession competences as a required state. The conclusion evaluates presupposed use of the results of the thesis.