There are other alternatives to residential settings, an individual may decide to be in sheltered housing or extra care housing scheme. This option offers independence with an increased level of care and support. There are different reasons as to why people go into residential settings, an individual may be suffering from a chronic illness such as dementia and need constant attention, lack of family to care for them, an individual wanting to be independent from his/her family members or an individual may be living in a disabling environment and needs to be in an environment which is not disabling. To create a good care setting it is important that the
237:- 1.1: The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. These changes are often small to start with, but for someone with dementia they have become severe enough to affect daily life. A person with dementia may also experience changes in their mood or behaviour. 1.2: The Key functions of the brain affected by dementia are: * Language * Memory * Perception * Emotional behaviour or personality * Cognitive skills (such as calculation, abstract thinking, or judgement). 1.3: Depression, delirium and age related memory impairment could be mistaken for dementia as they all manifest with similar symptoms.
As a carer non-verbal communication will become important, body language, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact and tone of voice will have to be taken into account when communicating with a sufferer. As the dementia progresses, it gets more difficult for the sufferer to put a sentence together, regular responses like ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ will be maintained for the longest period of time, in the later stages of dementia the person may find it difficult to speak at all. 2. Explain how physical and mental health factors may need to be considered when communicating with an individual with dementia Individuals with dementia may have other difficulties such as loss of hearing. It is therefore important to ensure that any hearing aids are working well and that you speak in a loud clear voice so you can be understood.
Thompson (2009) suggests that supervision is a process through which an organization empowers staff to meet organizational objectives, which involves a number of tasks from monitoring work tasks and workloads to ensuring legal and organizational requirements and policies are adhered to. Ensuring that Health and safety legislation is adhered to is an example of how the SCA operates within the role of supervisor, making sure that junior care staff are made aware of residents mobility needs by referring them to the relevant risk assessments, important too is the need to ensure that staff are aware of the correct use of all equipment used to transfer residents including safety checks prior to use and the appropriate method for storing said equipment after use, it is the supervisors responsibility to inform and instruct staff where there is evidence of uncertainty or misunderstanding of the correct health and safety
This factsheet looks at where you can go for advice and suggests some equipment and adaptations to consider. It explains how you can get equipment and the help that the NHS and social services can provide. It then gives details of financial help that may be available. People with dementia may find it harder to learn new skills or adjust to new ways of doing things due to gradual loss of memory or other abilities such as concentration. It can be helpful to introduce any equipment or make changes to the home in the earlier stage of the illness.
Introduction to personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s setting (SHC 22) – Unit 4222-202 Care workers promote the opportunity for service users to live in the community for as long as possible, by providing care and support to individuals and families. They work towards an assessed and planned package of support, care or maintenance program, this helps service users maximise their independence. Many duties for a care worker include performing basic personal care tasks as outlined in the service user’s care plan, such as feeding, dressing, assisting to toileting, total body washing. Any changes in the service user’s condition the care worker as a duty to report to senior management. A care worker must maintain an effective working relationship with service user’s, this helps by maintaining good communication.
You will also be accountable for the quality of work and maintaining an up to date knowledge and skills for the profession in wish to work in. The duty of care comes in with my job as a care support worker in the form of caring for people, with multiple mental difficulties as some have learning difficulties and poor personal living skills (day to day life). Where I work we have different levels of care we have people on rehab programmes helping them to gain different life skills such as cooking, cleaning and personal care (baths/showers, cleaning teeth etc) we have one individual who lives in the bungalow attached to the home and we support him with his day to day life making sure he has taken his medication that he needs it is my job as carer to call him for his medication and see that he comes to the medication room and if he requires a doset box with his medication in for a weekend with his family it is also my duty of care to him to explain when the tablets must be taken and the importance of them and to fill out the paperwork explaining what
Individual's approach to this difficult stage of life may be very different from considering it as the beginning of a new life through fear up to denying. Disregarding person's attitude towards what is happening to them they need help in many ways. From mine, care assistant's point of view the most important aspects of end of life care are: psychological and spiritual support (if requested), basic personal hygiene, supporting with eating and drinking and meeting continence needs. Another one which does not belong to my duties is administering proper medication which is basically pain reliefs. I work in a care home on two nursing units where very often I have to take care about terminally ill patients.
The Role of the Carer in Health Care Settings The role of a health care worker is to provide a safe environment for clients while meeting their medical and emotional needs. Care assistants provide basic personal care, social care and emotional support to elderly people who need help with day-to-day tasks. Care assistants may work in hospitals, day centres and residential homes for the elderly. Carers must meet the holistic care needs of the client, including: physical, psychological, social, emotional and safety needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation and personality developed by the psychologist Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970).
A qualified home health aide may also provide personal care to seniors during a limited period of time, provided that he follows a certain care plan and he works under the direct supervision of a skilled professional such as a nurse or a therapist. Skilled services are often not provided on a regular basis. The skilled providers have a programmed home visits to their clients based on a treatment plan prescribed by a doctor. Some of the reasons for hiring skilled services are to speed up hospital discharges, prevent unwanted hospitalizations, and allow an elder to remain in his home while he's recovering from a sickness or during an acute