This may affect the service user in such a way that they may feel they they are not wanted. They may feel that the service that they hoped for is not actually what is seems and may make the service user feel insecure and depressed. This could then lead to an infringement of rights. Health and social care professionals have a duty to promote the rights of their patients and service users and to challenge those people who may infringe the rights of others. In the past, services have been accused of not letting service users know about some of the facilities that could be available to them: this is because practitioners knew there was no funding available to support the provision of the service.
Discrimination and stigma of dual diagnosis can be isolating, which often results in patients not seeking care in the first place. Individuals with a dual diagnosis face treatment challenges, this often relating to the lack of appropriate services available for patients with a dual diagnosis. Lack of funding for public substance abuse and mental health delivery systems consequently results in people with a dual diagnosis being placed on waiting lists, leaving them untreated or with the option of private mental health services. Patients may not be able to access private mental health services, due to their lack of money or inadequate private health coverage to cover the long-term treatments, which are required for patients with a dual diagnosis. Services available to a patient with a dual diagnosis are often restricted due to their co-morbid disorder, until this disorder is treated they are unable to access these particular services (Drake, Essock, Shaner, Carey, Minkoff, Kola et al, 2001).
Some reported disadvantages are EHRs can be costly to implement. They can make a patient feel depersonalized. The time spent on the computers takes time away from the patients. There are too many types of EHRs and not all are able to communicate with each other. Medical records contain information about a patient's health and medical treatment history, leaving room for the possible violation of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, (HIPAA) (Ellis-Christensen,
To start, positive symptoms are physcotic behaviors that more times than less are not seen in healthy people. It has been said that people with positive symptoms often "lose touch with reality" because of the fact that their symptoms do not stay with them 24/7; they can be full speed one minute and barely recognizable the next all of this depending on whether or not the person is taking medicine or receiving treatment. Positive symptoms include hallucinations (voices being the most common type), delusions, thought disorders, and also movement disorders. Next is negative symptoms, negative symptoms are associated with disruptions to normal emotions and behaviors. When a person is experiencing negative symptoms it is sometimes confused with depression because they share some of the same symptoms such as needing help with everyday tasks, failing to take care of their basic hygiene, laziness or no drive to help themselves with anything.
Reasons for the link between mental illness and recidivism have been argued for many years. These victims lack the services, case management and extended treatment that decrease
2.3 Individuals who have dementia are not aware of the requirement for living, They can forget to do the essential things that are vital, taking medication, personal hygiene, eating are often forgotten. They can get lost or hurt and not understand what is necessary to correct the situation. Individuals cannot act in a manner of a responsible adult which why dementia is viewed as a
The individual may have lived with untreated loss for so long that they are unwilling to undergo assessment or treatment • Lack of person-centred care – sensory loss is not noticed, or noticed but not properly diagnosed • Seeing individuals only in terms of present or past conditions – this is known as ‘Diagnostic overshadowing’ – a pre-existing condition such as mental illness leads to new symptoms being ignored, or an existing sensory loss may be known about but another loss develops that is missed or ignored. Also, a loss may be acknowledged but deterioration not noticed or admitted • Ignorance of how
Recognize the myths about aging and negative attitudes about older adults. Start challenging the myths. There are many erroneous beliefs in our society –e.g. that older adults’ lives are less valuable and older adults are less deserving of having their rights respected; that older adults feel emotional pain less or do not have sexual feelings; or that older adults are largely responsible for growing health care or other social costs. Recognize that a label like “elderly” or “seniors” tells us little about what to expect from a person.
Governments, employers as well as citizens continue to struggle to keep abreast with the soaring health care costs. Economic analysts identify health care costs control as the key driver for wider economic stability for any sovereign state. In fact, President Obama made this a primary focus in his intended reforms. Although citizens are the
Therefore those people who do not have Medicaid or some type of insurance cannot acquire the help that is needed. On the state level those with a serious mental help need may receive help through the Assertive Community Treatment Act 2008. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is working to form a behavioral health system that allow Americans to receive operative treatments and services in their communities for mental and/or substance use disorders. Although effective treatments exist, far too little people with behavioral health disorders receive the help they need (Behavioral Health Treatment,