My Day as a Carer

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My day as a carer My client is a 93 years old lady with classified mixed dementia . Her condition seems to be mainly affecting her memory among other things which is extremely short. At times she can forget in less than 5 sec of reminding who I am and that I am there to look after her needs. Therefore my role as a carer in this placement involves a big amount of reassuring and reminding my client of my presence and aspects of every day life. Apart from verbal contact I also use written cards for my client to read . My service user also suffers from fear of going out. Although once when we are outdoors she is really enjoying it so the main part considers of motivating her and showing of positive factors which comes with it. When I wasn’t sure how to deal with this fear of my client my manager gave me the support I needed in form of a valuable advice which helped me solve this dilemma between the duty of care and my clients rights. In regards to safety there is a gate preventing my client from going upstairs as already she had an accident falling of stairs prior to my arrival here which ended whith broken femur. My client uses a walking frame to keep her stable,chair raisers, hearing aid and some monitoring aids plus automatic night light we use them mainly at night to keep her safe as she is prone to falling . When it comes to communication my client has a great sense of humour so I always try to make her smile and we have great fun together when in good mood. As I got to know my client very well over the past year have been able to adapt very quickly to her mood swings and react and meet her needs successfully and fast . Apart from verbal contact which my client enjoyes very much I also use written cards as I have mentioned. This comes very handy whenever I am in the other room occupied with housework etc. to keep her calm and confident that she is

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