Limitations Of Adult Social Care

An essential job duty for any healthcare professional is to be able to service clients. The Code of Ethics (1999) outlines that service means to use the knowledge that a social worker has acquired through training and education to assist clients with issues that are inhibiting them from living their life completely and without suffering. By this definition, a social worker’s job is to assist a client with real-life issues, such as depression and anxiety, which are faced by the majority of the elderly population (Richardson & Barusch, 2006). For a social worker, assisting clients who face mental illness means

| WEAKENSSES: * financial support and available funding * reputation of services as such mistreating patients * lack of access to technology in these areas * management or staff availability * lower income areas * undifferentiated service lines

People are poor and not all can afford the fees for care or have insurance.

There are major challenges faced by policy makers such as trying to control the cost of Medicaid spending because Medicaid is the biggest payer of these services. Policy makers must ensure that they are also keeping the individual served front and foremost in their decisions. Ensuring that quality services are met is one piece of the puzzle. As stated, unfortunately it seems that those who have lesser insurance or who cannot afford these services are provided with less than

bankruptcy, lose their homes and jobs due to the inability to pay such extranomical medical

• Social care, social control, and rehabilitation: assisting clients to meet their social needs who cannot provide for

As far as Society plays into this, the high cost economically results from price of dealing with and treating distressed patients. Burdens resulting in an increase of support needed to take care of kids who can't become self supporting and greater demands for medical help are becoming a problem in our society.

                                        Review the articles found and focus on the similarities and differences in services to the various populations.

The increase of expenses - As politicians continue their dissension amongst each other, the situation is worsening in our healthcare system. According to the World Health Organization, to achieve universal health coverage, countries need a financial system that enables people access to all types of health services without incurring financial hardship (Carrin, Mathauer, Xu, & Evans, 2011). This idea would be the foundation of innovative ideas that the U.S. could reform its healthcare system, but too many ideas are sabotaging any valid efforts. In the mean time, the U.S. healthcare system continues to deal with issues such as the increasing uninsured Americans (over 49 million), expensive administrative procedures and the inability to measure the accuracy of quality of care, access of care, and the increasing healthcare spending and financing that limit our ability to efficient utilize resources.

Mrs Durant would be considered a vulnerable adult based on the guidance outlined in ‘No Secrets’ (Department of health (DH) 2000) due to her age, disability and her inability to take care of herself. Within safeguarding adults, no specific Law is currently implemented, which means each Local Authority (LA) will have their own policies that need to be adhered too.

UNIT 2 - PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ADULT SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW In this assignment, you will look at the importance of reflective practice in adult social care. You will explore how reflective practice can improve your development and practice and contribute to the quality of service provision You will also look at the process of planning development, and the importance of feedback and reflect on how your values, belief systems may affect your practice. TASKS There are three tasks to this assignment. TASK 1 2 3 TASK 1 You are going to be a mentor for a new social care worker as part of their induction process. Part of your role is to help them prepare for the review after

The most prevalent barrier to health care in my opinion is insurance and access for low-income families. In the U.S. health care delivery is expensive than in other countries as per a study conducted by the Kaiser Family foundation. Due to the high health care cost, it is difficult for people with no insurance or low-income to access health care. Though the federal and the state governments have instituted public health insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and expanded coverage this population is still vulnerable. To overcome access to health care, costs and few indirect economic barriers such as lost work time, childcare costs, transportation, personal and ethnic considerations should be overcome. Most of the time access to health

difficult to access healthcare. In many families the adults in the household need to work

With many living in poverty and on unemployment whether by choice or due to lack of insurance, the crime rates rise also leading to risky behaviors. These risky behaviors sometimes end up leading to the emergency room settings. This increases the cost of health care with no primary care physician available.

High transportation costs in order to reach any sort of medical facilities prevents people from seeking medical care and/or contributes to preventable deaths