UNIT 4222-234 HSC 2030 PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR SLEEP 1.1 Explain how sleep contributes to an individual’s well-being sleep is essential for our health and wellbeing. It allows our body to rejuvenate and restore itself. It helps the body to create new cells. Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest causes of premature aging. Tiredness can significantly affect your mood and how you feel. Sleep can help lower blood pressure and elevated levels of stress hormones. Your cardiovascular system is constantly
(2015), 9 Things You Never Knew Your Body Does While You Sleep in Cosmopolitan magazine provides general explanations on the various processes the body cycles through while individuals are sleeping. The article outlines process such as the body’s tendency to lower in temperature, toxin cleanses, paralysis, neural cell repair, and immune system activation which occur during sleep (Peikoff, 2015). It goes on to outline many statistics concerning sleep apnea and its effect on life expectancy in females (Peikoff
Issues and the Elderly (2) "Identify and discuss the role of the nurse in providing family centred care to an elderly client who is palliative and living at home with his/her spouse or another family member". Palliative care is an approach to provide a coordinated medical, nursing, and allied health service to address the patient's physical, social emotional and spiritual needs for people with progressive incurable illness. Palliative care seeks to deliver allied health service within the environment
out-patient care involving weekly counselling and some support from a male role-model. Grace requires out-patient care involving care during the day from a knowledgeable caregiver who can provide activities suitable for a 4-year old. Medical assessment is necessary to identify any medical concerns related to her bed-wetting and her speech-language lags. Emily requires out-patient care involving weekly counselling sessions and/or group support for single-parent mothers. Family Emily and Gary would
children between the ages of 1 and 4. In adulthood, cognitive performance is correlated with the amount of sleep. Sleep allows for consolidation of memory and neural mechanisms (Bernier,2013). Therefore, an increase in sleep duration and quality should improve cognitive performance in children. Amongst college students, various links have been demonstrated to indicate that the amount of sleep reflects academic performance. Neural imagines reveal that grey and white matter in the frontal lobes increase
of mattress companies now offer hybrid models. They combine the special elements found in different mattresses and put them together. The outcome is proving to be some pretty awesome mattresses. People claim to get better, longer, and more restful sleep. They also say it’s making some remarkable improvements in their lives, such as less back and other types of pain. With mattresses, a hybrid is usually the combination of innerspring and another
Due to reports of the consequences of lack of sleep in adolescents and children (i.e. Alfano et al., 2007; Gregory et al., 2005; Link & Ancoli-Israel, 1995; Meijer et al., 2000; Wolfson & Carskadon, 1998), the current study aimed to establish whether variations in sleep significantly affected the well-being and academic attainment of university students. It was hypothesised that those students with insufficient sleep would experience negative effects to their well-being and achieve poorer grades
health and education services to support and promote opportunities for all disabled children and their families in Enfield. The service is open to any disabled children and young people who have significant global delay, autism or life threatening conditions under the age of 18. In my role as inclusion development manager I am responsible for enabling disabled children and young people to access mainstream activities of their choice within the borough. I provide the resources, staff and training
to get rid of it. Sleep is Important First, you need to ensure that your sleeping position is conducive when it comes to maintaining the natural curves of the spine. Avoid sleeping on your stomach. Such a sleep posture can cause headaches and pain when you wake up. Sleeping on your stomach also places the spine in a wrong or unnatural position. Instead, try sleeping on your back or side. If you are a back sleeper, it is advisable to place a pillow under your knees. If you sleep on your side, insert
evolutionary standpoint, that sleep is an important part of the success of an animal. But what fitness does sleep confer to an organism? Although sleep occurs across many species of animals, the function of sleep behavior is not fully understood. Studies might suggest that this behavior might play a role in several important processes, such as the regeneration of tissue and energy management (Sara, 2017, Rasch and Born, 2013). Recent work in the field suggests slow-wave sleep may fulfill