of higher cognitive functions. These include impairment of thinking‚ memory and orientation‚ learning ability‚ language judgement. The resulting disability depends on the interaction between the underlying disease process‚ the individual and the social and built environment. 1.2 Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia. The key functions of the brain that are affected are: • Parietal Lobe – For behaviour‚ special awareness and recognition. • Frontal Lobe – For
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independence‚ non-participation and social exclusion for vulnerable users of services in health and social care? 3 2.2 Analyze how organizational systems and processes are managed to promote participation and independence of users of health and social care services 5 2.3 Analyze the tensions that arise when balancing the rights of the individual to independence and choice against the care provider’s duty to protect users of services in health and social care 6 3.1 Use a case study above on MR
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Unit 2 – Individual Rights in Health and social Care Diversity and equality in society Diversity and equality in our society is based upon community that consist of people from different background. There are many factor that contribute to the diversity and equality of the mainly social mainly * Social * Political * Equality * Biological Social Factors Social factors emphasises values that families hold function together every day. The values are based on their cultural
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Introduction The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) has made an active commitment to promote the creation of healthy work environments that support excellence in patient care. There is a plethora of evidence supporting the notion that unhealthy work environments contribute to many other serious problems in healthcare such as medical errors‚ patient readmission‚ and nurse turnover. Therefore‚ the AACN has put forth six essential standards for the establishing and sustaining of healthy
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information important? •How will you use this information in the future? On April 14‚ 2003 the Health Insurance portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) took effect‚ and these federal regulation have had an impact on the field of healthcare. It affords certain protections to persons covered by health care plans‚ including continuity of coverage when changing jobs‚ standards for electronic health care transactions‚ and primary safeguards for the privacy of individually identifiable patient information
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Legislation/policy/best practice guidance | Summary | Safeguarding Vulnerable groups Act 2006 | Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 restricts contact between children and vulnerable adults and those who might do them harm. | Mental Capacity Act 2005 | The Mental Capacity Act 2005 prevents people who lack mental capacity from being mistreated or wilfully neglected. | Deprivation of Liberty safeguards | This is guidance for PCTs‚ Local Authorities‚ hospitals‚ and care homes to support them
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The types of incidents and emergencies which are arising in section A‚ • Accidents in this section we can see that the accident has happened because a s they quoted ‘some this explains that one of the staff member was abusing one of the elderly person. • Fire is also accrued in section A in the accidents ‘The flooding has caused electrical and a fire has started the lower floor kitchen of the home and is a spreading quickly’ this shows that fire started in the resident’s floor. • Major disaster
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–Lo2) To understand how principle of support are implemented in health and social care practice it starts from analysing equal opportunities ‚independence ‚ individuality respect ‚partnership and having a lot of respect for different cultures and value also providing care support and a lot of attention for individual for friends and family . Also understanding how the principle of support are implemented in health and social care involved a lot of confidentiality (policies about sharing information)
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administered by the government (Department of Health & Department of Children‚ Schools and Families). Anything that falls into the statutory sector means they have a legal duty to provide the services that they do (such as a school). Funding for services within the statutory sector comes from various forms of taxation (income tax‚ national insurance and council tax). Services are run by NHS Trusts and local authorities‚ they employ doctors‚ nurses‚ social workers‚ care workers‚ teachers etc. Independent
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For example a leaflet‚ letter or appointment cards. These are all ways which communication can be written. An example of this in health and social care is a receptionist sending a client a letter telling them their appointment has been changed or cancelled. And advantage of this type of communication is it can be done 24/7‚ it can be formal or informal and also it can be sent in different
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