Active Support and Independence in the Service Sector

374 promote active support

1.1 The hotel model is where support staff does things for people and they become observers in their own lives. Active support is a way of ensuring that people are able to engage and participate in their own support.

1.2 Identify practical changes that could be made within a service setting to:
*Promote individuals - Making environments easy to maintain and comfortable for the individuals
* Support informed choices - Putting in place communications showing information in a way that it is understood by the individual
*Improve quality of life - By making an individual’s choice of activities, food etc. person centred so that they enjoy what they do in life, therefore making them happy.

2.3 If an individual undertakes a certain task and if he’s compensated for undertaking that same task it can be considered a positive reinforcement.
There are different ways o positively reinforcing an individual’s participation in activities like: a specific reward, compliments, doing a specific activity that the individual enjoys

4.4 To improve the quality of an individual’s participation to promote independence it is necessary that the individual is aware of the choices he can make. Those same choices have to be person centred, meaning that it will be choices that the individual will enjoy the outcome. By having active support it enables more independence to the individual. Staff should encourage and support them to take part in social, economic and cultural activities, help the individual to use equipment to aid their independence. By having well placed information it also enables the individual to be informed of what surrounds the individual.