Disengagement Theory Of Health And Social Care Provision Essay

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In this assignment I am going to evaluate the influence of two major theories of ageing on a health and social care provision, the provision is a residential care home. The two major theories are disengagement theory and activity theory; the elderly may take different approaches towards these theories as individuals within the care home all have different needs. Each individual within the care home will go through the ageing process as some people can disengage from people or they can be more active. When planning how to provide services to meet the needs of each client I must take into consideration of whether each individual need the facilities to disengage from people or whether the need the facilities to become more active. Also, I must…show more content…
To keep clients active and reduce the chance of them becoming withdrawn from society I have thought about services such as befriending, shopping trips, luncheon clubs and many others which will help an individual enhance their daily living. These services would increase the individual’s confidence and self-esteem because they understand that the professionals who will be providing these services are here to help and encourage them to keep active in a positive way. Luncheon clubs/coffee mornings will allow others from the area such as friends and families of the clients within the care home who feel lonely or cut off to interact and keep their social interaction active as they grow older. Also, when people get older they like to have a group of friends normally about 4-5 who will go places together this is a social circle and when clients move to residential care they can’t do this no more which means that they lose contact with them certain indivudals.However, having luncheon clubs and coffee mornings allow their friends to visit, which means people won’t lose their social circle because they will have the chance to still engage with that group. However, sometimes there can be barriers which are causing people to withdraw from socialising

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