Unit 1 Health And Social Care Demographic Analysis

In America, people are changing their views on aging and the elderly. Some of the reasons that the attitudes are changing could be due to more elderly people are remaining in the work place longer, as opposed to retiring early. Riffkin (2014). And there is the fact that we baby boomers are living longer. Even though the U.S. only ranks 53rd with a life expectancy of 79. That’s an increase of one year since 2010. (“The World: Life Expectancy” 2016)

Experience working in the field of health care lends insight to the growing needs of the older adult population, and the barriers which impede our capacity to meet them. As the Baby Boomer age is approaching older adulthood, the rise for financial,

All health and social care services need to gather information from each service user so they can meet the care needs for each individual. For example, someone working within a care home may notice that one of the service users need more help with personal care, so to help the service user the service provider will discuss this and offer assistants. A new care plan will be put in place for the service user so that service providers will know that assistants is needed with personal care. Some needs of one service user may be the same or similar as another but before a new care plan is provided, research will need to be carried out to ensure this. When research is carried out it will focus on the care needs of the individual but also improve them and identify other needs which the service user

The rapid growth in the number of seniors in America and around the world is creating a global demographic revolution without precedent. During this century, advances in hygiene and water supply and control of infectious diseases have reduced the risk of premature death much. As a result, the proportion of population over 60 years in the world is growing faster than in any previous era. In 1950 there were approximately 200 million people aged over 60 worldwide. By 2000 there will be over 550 million, and by 2025, the number of people over 60 is expected to reach 1,200 million.

As a care worker you can find out information about the individual by putting the individual in the centre of any kind of planning and supporting. You can do this by communicating with the individual and find out more about their history, preferences and wishes. It is extremely important that you work in a non - judgemental manner. You have to make sure that you don’t discriminate in against the individual. By supporting the individual to be independent, you can also ensure the equality and general practice. You can kindly encourage and empower the individuals

A disability is a condition of impairment--a physical or mental condition--that limits a person’s activities or functioning. Handicap is used when legally specifying life processes or social activities that adversely affect a person’s functioning. A handicap is much more limiting than a disability.

Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - This act describes a disabled person as someone with "a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities", which has or can be expected to last for more than 12 months. Conditions that impair an individual's abilities in this way include those that hamper mobility; manual dexterity; physical co-ordination; continence; the ability to lift; carry or move everyday objects; speech; hearing or eyesight; memory or ability to concentrate, learn or

A2 Health & Social Care – essay on the provision of care in the UK

There are many different types of needs that need to be met. They are health, development and social care. There are also PIES needs. As my service is within health I will need to explore how their health needs are met by Carters Green Medical Centre. Depending on their life stage I need to consider their social and or development needs.

UK Health and Social Care System with the effect of policies and legislations in England Health care system

In this essay I will analyse the concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health and social care services. I will take a look into how perceptions of specific needs have changed of time. I will also include the impact of legislation, social policy society and culture on the ways that services are made available to individuals with specific needs. This will include me analysing the needs of individuals with specific needs, explain the current system for supporting individuals with specific needs. I will also evaluate the services available in a chosen locality for individuals with specific needs.

There has been steady growth in the residential aged care industry between 2002 and 2012 according to Baldwin, et al. (2015). It is expected that over the next ten years there will be a rapid expansion of the residential aged care industry which will lead to a considerable growth in government expenditure (Baldwin, et al. 2015). Also, there is a prediction that the population aged older than 70 years will increase over the next ten years (Baldwin, et al. 2015). This will impact on the decisions made by the Australian Government as to how the aged care industry will be structured (Baldwin, et al.

The increase in life expectancy is partially to blame for the increase in elderly citizens, as there are now better medicines and medical procedures to cure ailments which could have easily killed a person 10 or 20 years ago. As Levine said, "There are more elderly and a larger proportion of elderly in the population now than ever before in the history of the world, and individuals live longer and have a longer span of healthy, vigorous life than ever before" . We have to prepare, not only to have more aged people in the work force, but also to have adequate pensions and supplements to aid these people when they do retire.

Disability is ‘any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being’.

“For purposes of nondiscrimination laws (e.g. the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Section 188 of the Workforce Investment Act), a person with a disability is generally defined as someone who (1) has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more "major life activities," (2) has a record of such an impairment, or (3) is regarded as having such an