Running Head: Elder Abuse In Nursing Homes‚ The Effect on The Community and Preventive Measures to Decrease Elder Abuse. Elder Abuse In Nursing Homes‚ The Effect on The Community And Preventive Measures to Decrease Elder Abuse Abstract This paper serves to define and identify the various
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who lives in a residential care home because she developed early-onset Alzheimer’s a few years ago and her daughter can no longer care for her at home‚ as her arthritis has also become more severe and she struggles to do basic things by herself now as it can become very painful for her to move at all at a moment’s notice. I am a carer who works at the residential care home that she lives in. A fault with the electrics causes a fire to start in the downstairs of the home. I am upstairs with Anna helping
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who can no longer be cared for by their family in their own home. This may also happen in the case of a child who has been abandoned or orphaned. Where parents are unable to cope due to illness or other problems they may agree to their children being taken into the care of the Health Service Executive (HSE.ie). Residential care refers to care that can be provided in a home (for children in the care of the HSE) staffed by Care Staff. The home or centre is referred to as a children’s residential centre
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themselves or others‚ and should always be a last resort for the minimum amount of time). Staff neglected patients by failing to take steps to provide a safe and secure environment for them. Parkfields residential Care Home‚ Butleigh. Parkfields care home‚ a small family run residential care home for the elderly and infirm‚ in Butleigh‚ hit the headlines after the manager was found guilty of manslaughter on a number of her service users. The Manager failed to provide a safe and secure environment due to
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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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