Graded Unit Planning Stage: Engaging with the Elderly
Graded Unit Planning Stage Kirsty Lafferty
I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which has left him with limited mobility making some tasks harder for him.
For the purpose of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act 1998 I will be referring to the service users as John, which is not his real name.
Since recently suffering from a stroke at the age of 61 John has been left with limited mobility in his left hand side of his body including the use of his arm and some use of his right leg. He is a very shy individual who is finding it a struggle to get used to dealing with his condition as he up until his illness was a fit, reasonably healthy man who worked as a scaffolder and had a brilliant social life. As a result of his stroke he feels like he has lost a lot of his independence and that he needs to rely on others to help him with a variety of things including personal hygiene and getting around outside his home. John still lives at home with his wife of 38 years who is still able to provide a level of care for him although he also has care workers come into his home in evenings to prepare him for bed aswell as his daughter who helps out when she can. Although John has accepted that he does not have full mobility he is finding that it has knocked his confidence and he does not like having to rely on others to help him out so much and is very reluctant to use a wheelchair even when he is tired. Johns not one for being very sociable in the day Centre he tends to keep himself to himself and doesn’t feel confident enough to get into a lot of conversations
I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which has left him with limited mobility making some tasks harder for him.
For the purpose of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act 1998 I will be referring to the service users as John, which is not his real name.
Since recently suffering from a stroke at the age of 61 John has been left with limited mobility in his left hand side of his body including the use of his arm and some use of his right leg. He is a very shy individual who is finding it a struggle to get used to dealing with his condition as he up until his illness was a fit, reasonably healthy man who worked as a scaffolder and had a brilliant social life. As a result of his stroke he feels like he has lost a lot of his independence and that he needs to rely on others to help him with a variety of things including personal hygiene and getting around outside his home. John still lives at home with his wife of 38 years who is still able to provide a level of care for him although he also has care workers come into his home in evenings to prepare him for bed aswell as his daughter who helps out when she can. Although John has accepted that he does not have full mobility he is finding that it has knocked his confidence and he does not like having to rely on others to help him out so much and is very reluctant to use a wheelchair even when he is tired. Johns not one for being very sociable in the day Centre he tends to keep himself to himself and doesn’t feel confident enough to get into a lot of conversations