A Report on the case study of Mr. C. Lazo

“A Report on the case study of Mr. C. Lazo”
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Table of Contents
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................3
Type of Abuse............................................................................................................................................3
The legislation care act..............................................................................................................................4
Safeguarding..............................................................................................................................................5
Safeguarding is provided for the Well-being and Empowerment of the individual.........................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The term “vulnerable adult” can be given to an individual or a person who is above eighteen
years of age and who is in need or may be in future will need the care services for reasons like
mental disability, any kind of impairment, age factor, and who is not capable of taking care of
himself or herself or in cable of protecting themselves in the case of any harm caused to them
(Dunn, Clare and Holland, 2008). Also this term was used in No Secrets for describing those
adult individuals who were in a need to be safeguarded. But in 2011 it was suggested by the Law
commission that the usage of this label “vulnerability” itself is very haunting and in appropriate
to be used, it should no longer be used as it also sounds very demeaning, stigmatizing and
disempowering. The Care Act uses this term as “adult with care and support needs” or simply it
uses the term “adult at risk” (Johnson and Boland, 2018). The following case study is also about
one such individual who is a vulnerable adult. Mr C. Lazo has intricate consideration and bolster
needs and was being upheld by various organizations. He encountered a progression of
arrangement moves which affected his passionate prosperity bringing about a decay of conduct.
He was additionally getting physically week due to not having legitimate nourishment. Concerns
were communicated by his consideration group that there might be a fundamental physical
reason for him not having proper food and getting in shape. He was admitted to a local intense
medical clinic trust for perceptions and indicative tests. Amid his stay in medical clinic, he didn't
get the fundamental tests to discount a physical wellbeing condition as a main driver of his
physical appearance. He was released from clinic 7 weeks after the fact as it was felt that his
condition was because of conduct and not physical causes. He was released to a nursing home
for end of life care.
Type of Abuse
The first and foremost thing to understand and analyze is the type of abuse, an adult has been a
victim of. There are various categories of abuses like sexual abuse, mental abuse, emotional
abuse, psychological abuse etc (Yon et al., 2018). All these kind of abuse are not found in the
case of Mr. Lazo. As there were no signs of physical violation on his body and neither any kind
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