“from a Service Users Perspective Critically Evaluate an Aspect of Adult Community Care Services”

This presentation is going to talk about person- centred care, confidentiality, respecting privacy and dignity and protecting from risks and harm. The common core principles are important to every Health and Social Care setting as they provide a basis for a general understanding of promoting good mental health and recognising signs of poor mental health among everyone receiving care and support. The aim of care home are to meet the identified needs of individuals who live in that home. An older person might need to live in that care home for years. It is important for staff to be aware of responsibilities in delivering care to support the individuals who live at that home. These common principles of health will help develop the workforce that respond confidently to the individuals and supporting the life they are leading.

Staff working in partnership with a service user’s family will become more aware of families' individual needs, and know more about an elderly person's home context, thus enabling them to be aware of how the care home is different or similar to their own home and understand the elderly person’s behaviour with this in mind.

In1948, the Nation Health Services separated both older people and disabled people into two categories one group who they thought was sick and the other group for the people needing care and attention. The people who were thought to be sick were placed in hospitals and the people who were thought to need care and attention were placed in residential homes. The local authorities were able to charge for the individuals using th residential homes even if they were deemed as sick or needing care and attention but

In addition, Community Care Services provides much needed monitoring and support service to ensure the older person is able to live in their own home. They cover everything from community nursing, meals, domestic help, personal care, home modifications, transport and day therapies and support for people with cultural and identifiable needs, as well as for people with particular health conditions. For example, meals on wheels services provide a nutritional food, Vital Call service to help the aged people in an emergency case. Some of the ways may support the older people are get assistance with “home help”,

In this report I will be investigating how care services meet the needs of individuals by firstly analysing the needs of an individual using care services. Then I will go on to explain the roles of the care planning process in identifying needs, and explain the features of a positive care practise. After explaining that, I will analysis positive care environments and evaluate how they meet needs before finally explaining the role of legislation in promoting a positive care environment.

When on a placement in a care home, the elderly were treated without respect, they were shouted at by the staff and poor manual handling was used when moving the elderly residents. This was just one care home out of hundreds, not all care homes are like this and the clients will be treated with respect and dignity.

Elderly in care not getting washed fed or cared for properly, abuse and neglect in care homes

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As the healthcare system in this country has changed, so have traditional nursing homes. Families have the right to expect that their loved ones will be taken care of by professionals in a caring environment. Unfortunately, may people are being abused and neglected in nursing homes. It is very clear that abuse is a serious problem among nursing home patients, and something needs to be done to put a stop to it.

This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. The essay consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce, including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The first part of this essay will consider how principles of support are implemented by using Overton house residential care home to evaluate and explain how principles of support are applied. Key concepts such as person-centred approach and dilemmas and conflicts arising from the

Growing old is something that no one ever wants to talk about but unfortunately in the end it happens to everyone. Growing up away from most of my extended family I never had an older presence in my life, besides my parents which some would argue were still kids themselves. With this grey matter in my mind about what it was like to be an older member of society I began to look into senior living homes. It always intrigued me where the line was drawn and in what circumstances should someone be put in a senior living residence and who made that distinction. Any given day you are guaranteed to see one of these older citizens doing everyday functions, for example shopping, exercising, interacting with others, the list goes on so why are some men and woman of the same generation in assisted living homes when others are not. When touring some of the senior living agencies in my area the distinction between the seniors in theses programs and the seniors I saw in public became evident. The seniors in these programs in one way or another needed help with everyday affairs. Whether it was something minor like having trouble with mobility and moving around to something a little more serious like having certain disorders or diseases. These men and woman needed help leading a stereotypically normal life. This is what drew me to The Benchmark. This agency’s staff was trained in a wide variety of caregiving tactics as well as having trained nurses on duty to ensure

The purpose of this study is to: Investigate the provision of supported housing for the elderly by

A care home is able to provide, or provides services like nursing care, medication management, emergency care and personal care such as feeding, managing incontinence, assistance with dressing and so on.

Like all other developed countries, Australia is greying. The proportion of older adults, that is, people aged over 65 as defined by the Australian Government (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2016b), rose from was 8.6 per cent to 15 per cent from 1960 to 2015 (The World Bank, 2016) and is projected to reach 18.7 per cent in 2031 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016). Population ageing is even more serious in rural areas (Department of Health and Ageing, 2008). This is evident in Little Whinging, a remote village in Queensland, where around 20 per cent of its population is expected to be over 65 by 2030 and the number may rise to 25 per cent by 2050. With the projected growth in the ageing population resulting increase in demand for healthcare and assisted living programmes, the society needs to address the problem of population ageing as a whole. A decreasing dependency ratio speaks to the importance of sustainability to meet the needs of older adults as 36 per cent of older adults in Australia are living in poverty (OECD, 2015). Little Whinging is calling for recommendations for keeping older adults independent. In this report I make three evidence-based recommendations. These include 1) provide home modifications suitable for older residents through reverse mortgages, 2) build a senior day centre to organise social activities, exercise facilities and other services for older residents, and 3) not to neglect older residents who do not seek help.

The traditional concept of nursing homes is something that is currently metamorphosing and experiencing rapid change and consolidation of the industry. Before the development of nursing homes, there were almshouses before the 19th century. The elderly individuals that were broke or incapacitated resided in these houses. In the past, such homes were crowded because many individuals in the geriatric population were dispersed by the Industrial Revolution (Rinc Del Rio, n.p). Furthermore, the need for this type of care was enhanced by the Civil War. At the time, many local governments were for group housing, which was preferred over