Anti Discriminatory Difficulties

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This assignment is going to discuss difficulties that may arise when implanting anti-discriminatory practice justifying ways of overcoming these difficulties in a health and social care setting, such as diets, language, dress, life style and specific care practices. There are many ways that difficulties may arise when implanting anti-discriminatory practice, such as you may not know what someone’s beliefs are. For example if someone is Muslim and they only eat halal meat then you should make sure that this is available for them. You should also check their care plan to see their needs and to find out other things such as their preferred way of communication. For example if someone is deaf then they may lip read or they may prefer to use…show more content…
This could be a difficult if there was no smoking area for them. To overcome this and to make sure that there is no discrimination you should make sure that was a designated smoking area outside the building for the service users. Another difficulty is if there was a service user who was part of a different culture and they wanted to pray. All members of staff and service users should make sure that they respect each other no matter what their culture or beliefs. There should also an area where they could go to pray if they wished to do so. Also there may be service users who are vegetarian and don’t eat meat. This could be a difficulty if there was no other option for them on the menu. The menus should contain options so that there is something on the menu for everyone and different options such as a vegetarian option. This will stop discrimination because it means that everyone is getting a choice about what they want to eat. Also there may be a diabetic who does not want to stick to their sugar free diet and this could affect them and make them ill. To overcome this problem you should try to give them advice and tell them the consequences if they don’t stick to their diet. If they still want to no longer stick to it then you can’t tell them what to do, you have to respect their

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