for have individual communication needs. The elderly clients I care for generally have ill health‚ the illnesses they suffer from can be physical and mental. Physical illness ranges from minor life limiting illness like obesity‚ to illness that prevents clients from leaving their bed‚ and are cared for in bed. Mental health illness ranges from minor confusion to extreme paranoia and various levels of dementia. The diverse needs of my client group mean that I have to be aware of individual needs every
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mentally ill are hardly ever successfully rehabilitated or integrated back into the community. The main goals of mental health facilities are usually focused on what the institution wants instead of what the resident wants. Symptoms of chronic mental illness are distorted perceptions‚ loss of contact with reality‚ delusions‚ hallucinations‚ confused thinking‚ unstable and inappropriate emotions‚ bizarre behavior and impaired judgment. There is social awareness that can be achieved from chronically mentally
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time and not you’re worries. Also try to accept things you can’t change‚ if you find a way of coping and managing with things you don’t like it will prevent you from taking your feelings out on others. Three different types of accident or sudden illness in social care setting Three different types of
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individual characteristics‚ illness characteristics and provisional characteristics. Kasl and Cobb define health behavior as any activity undertaken by individuals who see themselves as healthy for the purpose of preventing disease or dictating it in an asymptotic stage (Cited in Sankar‚ 2001). For the present study health care utilization is distinguished from health seeking behavior as any action undertaken by individuals who perceive to have a health problem or illness‚ for the purpose of dealing
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systems‚ a culture of violence and many more. (Handbook: Child Protection - UNICEF IPU. 2004) Childhood Illness Many childhood illnesses are caused by spreading of viruses. After all young children in groups are breeding grounds for organisms that cause illness. Sleep walking‚ bed wetting‚ night mares‚ stammering and many more factors could be signs of some kind of illness‚ not always. Children’s illnesses should be taken utmost care and
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Perspectives In this assessment I will be identifying three different social groups and explain how their health may differ from the general population; I will also be using sociological perspectives to discuss different patterns and trends of health and illness. Gender- “Women live longer but suffer from more health problems in their lifetime‚ and many are specific to the female gender” Agnes Miles‚ Women‚ Health and Medicine. According to the stats‚ women suffer from more health problems during their
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People with mental health issues deserve the right to choose their treatment and should have access to proper treatment. Mental health patients are people‚ meaning they are entitled to the same human rights as anyone else. In order for patients to be protected‚ Mental Health in America (MHA) suggests that‚ “[states create] and enforce laws which permit persons with mental illnesses to designate in writing‚ while competent‚ what treatment they should receive should their decisional capacity be impaired
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Hands of Hope in the Human Services Professions The Human Services profession is an occupation where one is not limited to do just one job or one sense of duty. I discovered the profession is a more of a mission rather an occupation where one who is pursuing this career must be caring‚ patient‚ willing to set aside one own personal viewpoint and must be able to work with a wide range of diversity. More importantly‚ able to perform on a professional level‚ with the client’s best interest‚ despite
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different‚ and from a caring perspective‚ are both as important as one another when putting a care plan in place for service users such as Trevor . Models of illness are used to analyse how illness arises and to predict what treatment might be effective.; Most models are implicit and not formally described.In the context of health and illness‚ a model will specify what factors are of importance in determining whether a person is ill‚ (and conversely‚ by implication‚ what factors are not relevant)
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not fit a classical illness or do not fill well together to create one illness but rather symptoms of different illnesses. The physician often notices that the parent is overattentive or too helpful. The parent makes the smallest symptoms seem much larger. When the physician dismisses the case‚ the parent is very distraught and will often make the symptoms worse in order for the physician to take more notice to the child next time. All too often the parent producing the illness is in the health care
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