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Background: Nursing homes with special regime provide long-stay services to persons with reduced sufficiency due to chronic mental disease or addiction to habit-forming substances, as well as to persons with senile, Alzheimer's dementia and other types of dementia who have reduced self-sufficiency due to the above stated diseases and whose situation requires regular help of another natural person. The regime in those facilities providing social services is adapted to specific needs of such persons. When caring for...

Background: With regard to the demographic ageing of the population, healthy ageing and health literacy of the elderly population, including both healthcare and prevention of diseases and health promotion, represent a hot topic. The health promotion in the elderly is focused on getting information and particularly on the practical application of the information to actual situations. The healthy lifestyle in the old age supports the physical and psychological condition of the elderly population. The elderly need to...