Explain a person centred approach to enable an individual to use their communication abilities?

Providing Food Menu service with picture is one of the most common person centred approach for non-verbal communicative individual with dementia. It enables individual to choose from the menu identifying picture and written language. Also an interpretation service enables an individual from different culture to use their communication abilities.

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Explain the roles of different agencies in safeguarding and protecting individuals from abuse?

CQC: Care quality commission has their duty to set guideline and monitor on health and social care organisations and agencies to protect individual from harm and abuse. If any care provider fails to protect individuals from harm and abuse or does not meet the standard set out by care quality commission then care provider will be forced to close down and pay penalty.

The Police: Police is mostly the first contact to safeguard and protect individual from abuse. Their responsibilities are to record, investigate, safeguard and report.

Safeguarding Adults Board: Their responsibilities are to share information among all local safeguarding agencies and monitor their action and activities regarding safeguarding issues.

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Identify ways of working that can help improve partnership working

Identify skills and approaches needed for resolving conflicts

How would you use the information about communication abilities and needs of the individual to ensure effective communication?

To establish effective communication and positive interaction you must have to aware of individual’s communication abilities. If you know the person’s communication ability then you have to take into account whether any aid or support necessary to establish effective communication. Suppose an individual with hearing difficulties you are trying to communicate. You have to ensure that individual has his hearing aid on before interaction. If there isn’t any hearing aid then you have to send individual for an assessment to local GP. And if you try to establish written communication with a blind person then you must provide Braille transcription.

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List of different techniques that can be used to facilitate positive interactions with an individual with dementia?

·        Make sure person is conscious (Not sleeping)

·        Noise free environment

·        Be patient

·        Use of gesture, writings, cards and pictures if required

·        Use clear, short and simple phrases for conversation

·        Repeat conversation if required

·        Nod gently when person is replying or trying to reply

Identify ways of working that can help improve partnership working

Identify skills and approaches needed for resolving conflicts

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Why must dementia not be viewed as disability? (Give example)

People with dementia can live active and fulfilled lives with little assistance from others or assistive technology. They experience emotion like everybody else. They have their identity, a history of present, past and future. They are aware of their independence and dignity. Treatment for dementia is also under development. Treatable disease or treatment under research cannot be described, defined or explained as disability.

Example: Mrs A has difficulties in remembering her daily tasks. A simple note can help her to remember her daily tasks. Gentle reminder (from alarm clock to our daily note) required in every person’s life even without dementia. Mrs A is not different from us. Picture, cards and facial expression may help a person to communicate if someone have communication problems.

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What impact could the attitudes and behaviours of others have on an individual living with dementia?

The implication of dementia on a person and his or her relatives and who care for them can be devastating. In the early stages of the disease, life of a person with dementia and their families and relatives may not change a great deal. But when dementia becomes more serious however, home life for the person with dementia will not be easy as family and relatives will find it tiring and stressful. It is quite common people with dementia have sleep disturbance. So family and relative may experience sleep deprivation. Also providing personal care to a person with dementia by  family or relative may cause physical injury. The following impact can occur:

·        Stress

·        Melancholy

·        Tiring

·        Insomnia

·        Difficulties maintaining family life and work life balance

·        Difficulties maintaining social life

·        Physical and emotional harm

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Unit 201, Assignment 2: Case study

Assignment 2.2

It is 1 year since Aggy was diagnosed as living with dementia and although the medication has helped her, she is becoming increasingly confused, forgets to eat and drink and when reminded, she takes a mouthful of food and immediately walks away. Aggy walks up and down the corridors all day and sometimes does so at night. The care team are becoming increasingly worried that Aggy will become malnourished and frail due to her lack if eating and constant walking.

 

·        How can Aggy’s life be better managed within the care home?

First, we need to find out the root cause for her wandering behaviour. Could it be that Aggy is bored restless as little to do to occupy her or wishes to explore the environment or wishes to go somewhere or finds difficult to relax in this environment or is in pain or uncomfortable or frightened. When we will be able to find the exact root cause for this behaviour, then we can put a strategy for Aggy to eliminate or minimise the cause in order to manage her life better within home.

·        How could Aggy be encouraged to eat and drink?

Person centred approach may help her to eat or drink. Providing her choice of food and drink may help her to eat and drink. Talking to her family and friends we may be aware of eating and drinking behaviour. Prompt encouragement is also required. Also, discussing issue with colleagues, supervisor, manager or other health professional may help to find a way to manage better.

·        How can the issue of Aggy’s sleep and rest be managed?

Exercise sometimes help to better sleep. Also bright light therapies help in some occasion. Caffeinated drink or milky drink before bedtime may help Aggy to have better sleep. Nightmare or hallucination sometimes cause sleep disturbance. Discussing with GP may help to resolve if this is the case. We have to consider sleeping environment such as less noise, comfortable bed, right room-temperature, less lightings after Aggy to fall on sleep to avoid getting up in the midnight.

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