Unit 4 – M2 Case study Rosie is a lady in her 80’s and has just been taken into a care home as her family have recently had to move away‚ and she has been finding difficult to look after herself at home on her own. She used to walk her dog every day to keep herself a little bit active‚ and she used to attend an elderly peoples club every other Thursday‚ here she would socialise with both old friends and friends that she didn’t know until she joined the club. These things were helping Rosie
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service users who require special consideration such as people with learning disabilities can still find the need to live in a group living environment‚ but these establishments tend to be much smaller than the old hospitals. OLPA for example only have homes that are four bedded which enables a truly person centred approach‚ and promotes the independence of the service users to enable them to achieve positive outcomes. Wolf Wolfensberger’s formulation of the principle of Normalisation means “Making available
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in social care‚ because in this sector we work with some of the most vulnerable people in society. They have a right to expect a certain standard of work and a certain standard of moral and ethical behavior. Currently I am working in a 43 beds Care Home. I know the layout and understand the local policies and procedures. My duties are to provide personal and practical care services for service users with a wide range of illnesses and disabilities‚ to assist service users with getting up in the morning
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ASSIGNMENT 204 Introduction to duty of care in health‚ social care or children ’s and young people ’s settings Task A Dear friend I have heard that you would like to work as a care worker and need to know more about “duty of care”. I wish to help and want to try clarify the term to you as much as I can. “Duty of care” is a phrase used to describe the obligation in your role as a care worker. You owe duty of care to your patients/service users‚ your colleagues‚ your employer‚ yourself and
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and procedures. In this assignment I will be explaining how‚ the residential care home‚ of which I carried out my first placement; promotes independence and reduces the risk of abuse and neglect. I will do this by explaining and discussing: approaches‚ strategies‚ principles and will then evaluate the role of multi-agency working in reducing the risk of abuse. Although the residential care homes occupants‚ are all unable to fully look after themselves‚ primarily due to age and related
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maintaining confidentiality‚ this means not sharing an individual’s personal information with another person. Also‚ it’s important to protect the personal information of a client by keeping it between you and the client. This care value occurs in a care home setting when; the Care worker has to maintain confidentiality when looking at personal files of the service users‚ by not leaving it on the computer because someone can walk past and check It. it’s important for them not to share information that is
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and want to make this the focal point of the exercise. Used negatively communication becomes a form of abuse‚ either physically or mentally. I came across a couple of articles about communication breakdown in residential care homes one of which being Winterbourne View care home which cares for people with learning difficulties and autism. Four people were arrested from there in 2011 after secret filming by BBC’s Panorama showed a pattern of serious abuse. Instead of trying to get on with the residents
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for money or trying to make you buy things • People who come to your house and try to make you buy things you don’t want Institutional Institutional abuse can happen in any place which is set up to care for people. This could be a care home‚ a hospital‚ supported living
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I have chosen these responses safety‚ security‚ seeking help‚ serious injuries and alerting for help and have them in this order because they are in order of top priority to help the casualty who has been hit by a car outside the residential care home. I chose to have safety as top priority response as it is really important that the casualty and your safety is the number one priority in dealing with the accident if it is on a dangerous and busy road for example. I then chose to have security as
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situation is that of a man‚ who‚ at the request of his family‚ unhappily (but apparently necessarily)‚ moved to Parkside Manor‚ a small residential care home. Of late Peter’s condition of Alzheimer’s disease has advanced and he has become progressively uninhibited. His behaviour has caused the staff to question Peter’s placement at the care home‚ as some of the other residents are beginning to become troubled and distressed by his behaviour. Some staff feel that with the number of residents needing
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