The first step is a community care assessment, which is usually arranged by the local authority's social services department. The assessment should take place within a reasonable time of social services finding out that they may need community care services. They do not have to make a formal application for an assessment. If social services know that they may need services, they should offer to assess them without them having to ask, they have a legal duty. They have a right to an assessment of their community care needs under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. Ensure that plans of care, treatment and support are implemented, flexible, regularly reviewed for their effectiveness, changed if found to be ineffective and kept up to date in recognition
MSTT was able to speak with Miguel (father) in regard to Miguel staying with him. Youth father has tried to reach out to Miguel with resistance from his son. Youth father has no problem with youth staying with him while his mother is serving her time. An update from last week. Sherlly is not in jail at this time. She was detained for a few hours because of an hit an run. She hit a street light and because she was driving without a license she left the scene of the crime. She is out now and is looking for a lawyer because her court hearing is at the end of this month. MSTT spoke with Miguel and Sherlly on where they see him once she is detained for a couple of years. At this time Sherlly remain youth focused giving him the power of where he's
The Open University (2010) K101 An introduction to health and social care, Unit 3, ‘Social Care In The Community’, Milton Keynes, The Open University.
In this write-up, I would be describing, analyzing and evaluating integrated working in healthcare in England. Over the last periods in the England there has been a growing importance by the government on co-operative care, inter specialised working, and partnerships between the health and community care services.
The Scottish Government [TSG] (2005). National Care Standards - support services (revised march 2005) [PDF] available at The Scottish Government website; scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/239525/0066023.pdf
Mei may find herself feeling stressed as the pressure of being rushed to carry out her specific duties are pushed to the imit. The feeling of not being able to spend as much quality time with her residents as she used to, could have Mei feeling as though she is not providing the care as she would like to. Mei could find that she could be suffering from headaches or is becoming irritable at being rushed to perform her normal duties such as showers, toileting, making beds and helping the residents with their meals and even preparing the residents for bed.
The employees would be damaged because they this would make their compensatory time of no value. Sickness is no fault of the employee as these things happen. If the only time the employee has is compensatory time and it is used when the employee doesn’t benefit. This is like punishing the employee for being sick.
What three categories of risk factors are covered in this chapter? Name and explain briefly any two factors falling into each category.
2- The optimal target consumers, as stated in the case, are “(1) end-consumers (patients) and (2) healthcare providers who would prescribe the medication” (HBR). Based on the case, Printup’s initial and acceptable approach is “to analyze psychographic segmentation of overweight individuals” (HBR). In using this area of segmentation, she is focusing deeper on the underlying issue of why people are in need/want for a solution. This allows a better approach to take in marketing and appealing to the overweight-affected group. Interestingly enough, the impact of overweight on the female gender and the findings on the classification of the five presented profiles coincides with understanding behavior through Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, as discussed
If an individual can’t speak for themselves and be in control of their own lives they will need someone to act as advocate for them. The Care Act 2014 states that if an individual has no-one to assist them to make decisions then it is the responsibility of the local authority to provide an independent advocate to work on their behalf.
What does ‘care’ mean? Care is the provision of what is necessary for your health, welfare and protection of someone or something. However when you talk about ‘care’ in a care practice the term changes and becomes more about enabling people to meet all their needs which would refer to their social, physical, emotional, cognitive and cultural needs. The individual is central to the meaning of care in this context.
If work flow is not managed then deadlines will be missed and staff may duplicate work while other work is yet to be done. There are a few techniques that can be used including business-wide techniques, department/team techniques and individual techniques.
113 Older Adults participated in focus groups where they discussed their use of and attitudes about technology in their home, work, and health care environments. The older adult’s reported significantly more positive attitudes than negative attitudes. Positive attitude were defined as “likes” and negative attitudes were defined as “dislikes”. Positive attitudes were due to how well technology “supported activities, enhanced convenience, and contained useful features.” Negative attitudes were due to what degree the technology “created inconveniences, unhelpful features, and security and reliability concerns.” The results support three notions. First, older adults view the benefits of technology are greater than the costs. Second, they do not support older adult stereotypes relating to their inability to use and fear of technology. Third, in models of technology acceptance, they outline the vital roles of “use and ease of use”. The “digital divide” is the contrast between those who accept new technology and those who do not. According to the article, any product or service that is digital or electronic is known as technology. In order to predict the usage of technology we must understand the factors that affect the acceptance of technology in older adults. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) defined
1.) How would you begin to evaluate the need for the policy and the possible support or lack of support for the policy from your peers, nursing management, and others who might be affected by the policy?
This paper aims to establish the reason why Social Circumstances Reports (SCRs) are needed in the Mental Health Tribunal, and how social work knowledge, skills and values are being utilised in planning and producing these reports. The paper will also discuss the legislation, policies and procedures and the social work theoretical frameworks behind the reports. The dilemmas which may be faced by the social workers in writing the report and how the recommendation in the report is justified will also be explored in this paper.
Social workers specific purpose within this origination is to provide families with emotional support throughout their time as patients within the hospital. This support can include, but is not limited to, the following methods; crisis counselling, individual therapy, and informing patients of their rights regarding difficult decision they may have to make surrounding their circumstances. Through crisis counselling the social worker has to conduct crisis and bio-psychosocial assessment, as identified by Roberts’ Seven Stage Crisis Intervention Model, in order to form the basis for how they can best adhere their patients needs (Roberts, 2007). This methodology is practice widely across the social work department as identified by the social worker interviewed below and is effective in furthering the establishment of an open worker/client relation, which is essential for social worker to be able to provide their best care to patients. Furthermore, additional usage of counselling provides families with a platform for open communication, which allows them to identify any concerns and issues they may have. Counselling is a common social work practiced used and is effectively implemented in this organisation. Within the social work department there are numerous clinical areas in which social workers practice, this ranges from Oncology to Orthopaedics and so on. Throughout