Older people and Social Care My presentation topic is social policy and older people and the key act I’m going to mainly focus on is the NHS & Community Care Act 1990. Going with the assumption that an older person is one whose age is 65 or over – the one distinguishing feature that they possess is that they appear not to work for a living. Older people have always been a major focus for social policy and because the UK is an ageing society‚ their importance to the subject is increasing further
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INTRODUCTION A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land. Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water‚ for commercial demand‚ and for shelter from wind and waves. Ports often have cargo-handling equipment‚ such as cranes and forklifts for use in loading ships‚ which may be provided by private interests or public bodies. Often‚ canneries or other processing facilities
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INTRODUCTION HOW PEOPLE LEARN Learning can be defined formally as the act‚ process‚ or experience of gaining knowledge or skills. Burns conceives of learning as a relatively permanent change in behaviour‚ with behaviour including both observable activity and internal processes such as thinking‚ attitudes and emotions’. Burns (1995) considers that learning might not manifest itself in observable behaviour until some time after the educational program has taken place. Learning helps us move from
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Many people wonder what helps to make a novel/short story/any other work of literature into a timeless classic. To tell the truth‚ there are various literary devices that go into these pieces that help them becoming induring. One of the most important devices is setting. Setting contributes to the mood of a piece‚ which can change the whole way you think of a story. Two stories where this is very clear is Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. While reading
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The Manufacturing Process * 1 When the potatoes arrive at the plant‚ they are examined and tasted for quality. A half dozen or so buckets are randomly filled. Some are punched with holes in their cores so that they can be tracked through the cooking process. The potatoes are examined for green edges and blemishes. The pile of defective potatoes is weighed; if the weight exceeds a company’s preset allowance‚ the entire truckload can be rejected. * 2 The potatoes move along a conveyer belt to
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marriage and so they grow up thinking it’s the right thing‚ or in some cases‚ the only way. This is considered to be awful from the perspective of many Westerners but in many parts of the World‚ this is considered normal and even acceptable‚ as well as encouraged. First of all‚ what is an arranged marriage? An arranged or pragmatic marriage is a “marriage planned and agreed by the families or guardians of the couple concerned” (Oxford Dictionaries). For many centuries‚ arranged marriages were the most
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DESCRIBE THE RISKS AND POSSIBLE CONSQUENCES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNF PEOPLE USING THE INTERNET AND MOBILE PHONES. There are many risks involved for children using the internet....this may be that the child has innocently mistyped on the keyboard and are exposed to porongraphic images.Parents have the option to block certain things popping up on the computer screen Children use networking sites‚ such as facebook‚ they will state their name‚ their age‚ address etc‚ they will also post photos of themselves
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What motivates people at work? Critically evaluate the contribution of theory and research to understanding of how and why people are motivated at work. There have been a large number of theories looking into motivation at work and the factors which affect it. In this essay I will be exploring three key theories in the area‚ each provides a very different angle on what motivates employees at work. To begin I will look at a need theory of motivation‚ Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory (1959)‚ as
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Mary F Piecuch Jon Ross IDS-1600-F1-01 28 January 2013 Adapting + Work is Key to being Self-Made The rise of women’s equality has gained momentum in the last forty years; however‚ it has been in the works for well over one hundred years. Adapting to the climate is what we must all strive for‚ women are adapting to our ever-changing economic climate more successfully. While more recent times have seen women rising to the mainstream working class and becoming a “breadwinner”
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To get money should be the reason for why do people. We work in exchange to earn money‚ which is the factor to acquire what we need in daily lives. Although people have a right to choose whether they want to live either with sufficiency economy or extravagant economy‚ they do have to work hard in a different way. For those whose lives lie on the philosophy of sufficiency economy‚ they will have to work to survive even though they do not need money. People need to buy food‚ clothes and other necessarily
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