‘normal lives’? This essay will establish whether person-centred care services enable service users to lead ‘normal lives’. The author will examine identity and the concept of ‘normalization’ by exploring Goffman’s work on ‘stigma’ and stereotyping (K217‚ Chapter 5‚ p.6) . In addition‚ the concept of normalization will be challenged by the social model of disability‚ and finally person-centred care will be analyzed and how this can impact the way disabled people receive health and social care services
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K217 – TMA 2 Do personalisation and person-centred care ensure service provision that takes into account a service user’s identity? This essay will try to establish what identity is and if personalisation and person-centred care can ensure a service user’s identity is taken into account when accessing health and social care services. It will look at the work of Berger and Luckman and their suggestion that identity is always ‘socially constructed’‚ and will also explore Goffman’s concepts of ‘stigma’
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Bibliography: Collins‚ 2006‚ Collins Concise English Dictionary. Glasgow‚ HarperCollins Publishers. Open University (2010) K217‚ Adult health‚ social care and wellbeing‚ Chapter 14‚ Ethics in health and social care. Milton Keynes‚The Open University Open University (2010) K217‚ Adult health‚ social care and wellbeing‚ Offprints‚ Swimming in a sea of ethics and values. Milton Keynes‚The Open University General Social Care Council‚ 2010‚ Codes of Practice
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In order to try and answer this question I will firstly explain what ‘critical practice’ is in some detail. I will describe what theories and ideology are‚ as these are both very relevant to this essay. I will talk about various users in the health and social care system‚ but will mostly concentrate on older people‚ so this will then enable me to answer the question correctly. From reading the course material and doing the online work I found there was definitely a lot involved in becoming a critical
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circumstance. Such understandings may offer some pragmatic outcomes for enhancing certain individual results. Psychologists have found that people with disabilities often differentiate themselves and have trouble to feel connected within their wider society (K217‚ book 2‚ p28). This is highly confirmed by many disabled people of being excluded and outside the norm. Furthermore‚ these groups are often working to minimize the negative features to avoid being pushed to the margins of society. It is said in the
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Title: -‘A Report Submitted to the Continuing Care Committee within NHS Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus’. A Report Submitted to The Open University Contents:- 1. Introduction 2 2. Perspective on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and
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Dominika Steadman‚ D1502643‚ L161‚ TMA03 Some people consider that it is essential for a nation’s sense of identity to have a common language shared by all its citizens. There are many ways national identity can be described. One may associate it with sharing a nation’s culture and values‚ one may think about it as something everyone is born with and others might look at it as a way of unity with the country. It can also be argued‚ national identity is a collection of all the above‚ culture‚ history
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Social Lives‚Milton Keynes‚The Open University Byford‚J.(2009) “Living together‚living apart:the social life of the neighbourhood in Taylor‚S.‚Hinchcliffe‚S.‚Clarke‚J.and Bromley‚S.(eds) Making Social Lives‚Milton Keynes‚The Open University End of TMA03 part 2 Word count: 658
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Available at http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=398060§ion=1.6 (Accessed 1 November 2012) The Open University‚ (2012) ‘Activity 2.3: Biomedicine and holism’‚ K217 Learning Guide 2[Online]. Available at http://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=136246§ion=2.3 The Open University (2010) K217 Adult Health and Social Care and Wellbeing‚ Chapter 2 ‘Understanding Health and Illness’‚ Milton Keynes‚ The Open University Wade‚ D‚ (2009) ‘Holistic Health Care‚ What is it‚ and
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Report Challenges‚ Opportunities‚ Strengths‚ Weaknesses and EBI at Law Exchange Ltd Student: M Maher Al-Jarrah Tutor: Michael Dempsy Course: B830 Date: 12/07/2007 Introduction We have to introduce the organisation‚ its structure and business to be able to understand what challenges
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