Case Study Assignment on Vulnerable Person

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Case Study Assignment on Vulnerable Person
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Social isolation and loneliness are one of the major area of concern in UK and it is
mainly seen among the older age people of UK. Social isolation refers to the lack of social
support or contact and on the other hand the loneliness is the feeling of being isolated or being
alone. With growing percentage of loneliness and isolation, it is also seen that, there are various
adverse health effect due to the isolation and loneliness. Among them, depression, general health
condition, quality of life are very important health issues (Courtin & Knapp 2015). In this case
study of Clara, it is seen that, after death of her husband, she became isolated from the society
totally and start to become lonely. In order to avoid loneliness, she had started to engage herself
in competition letters. According to this letters, she had won lottery and to claim her winnings
she had to pay in advance fees. After that, she started to play more competitions regularly and to
give more money to the scammer. It is another problem for the lonely people to be the game of
the scammers. According to a report of BBC News, it is seen that almost 230,630 cases of fraud
were reported in 2015 ( up to end of march) ( Douglas 2015). Clara was also a victim of
monitory fraud and spent a huge amount of money. Even she had no money to buy her food. She
had complained to the health care worker that to distract her mind from her husband’s death, she
had done all this. Although she had full mental capacity, but she still did not believe that she was
fooled by the scammers. During this time, she had already played almost 15 competitions and all
the times she was fooled by the scammer. Due to those scams she had lost all her money. In this
essay, care interventions that can be used for Clara are discussed. Along with this, the legislation
acts to protect Clara is highlighted.
In order to support Clara, there should be two type of interventions. The first one is for
giving support related to the monitory frauds that she had experienced and the second one is for
helping her to come out from the loneliness and social isolations. Firstly, from the case study, it

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was seen that, due to her husband’s death Clara started to feel lonely and she started to isolate
herself from the society. Due to this social isolation, she had become a game of the scammers.
In order to engage herself to any kind of work she had started playing those fraud games. Even
after getting no prize after paying money, she did not stop playing. Moreover she started to play
more games in order to win more amount of prizes. Even she failed to realize the fact that she
was trapped by the scammers in spite of having full mental stability. She had lost all her money
and she even did not have any money to buy her food as she had played 15 competitions
simultaneously. In case of all the competitions results were same. Even After the health care
worker and trading standard worker had informed her about the scam, she did not want to believe
this truth as the playing was her weapon to negate loneliness. She did not even want to lose the
way in which she was trying to forget the grievances of her husband’s death. So it can be said
that the primary concern for Clara was to abolish her isolation from the society and loneliness. In
order to do this, various method can be used. Firstly, the social interactions should be increased
so that she would not feel lonely anymore. Enhancement of the social facilitation will help Clara
to interact with the peers or other people who are also lonely. In this type of practice, there is
reciprocal benefit to the people who are participating in this process (Gardiner, Geldenhuys and
Gott 2018). In order to achieve this, Clara may be encouraged to participate in group activities
rather than lottery competitions. Clara may enroll herself in any charity funded friendship clubs
or in a group in which the members shared a common interests with Clara. As a part of group
activity, if Clara participate in such things, it will be very much helpful for Clara as she would be
in touch with other and also can interchange her thoughts with each other. This may help Clara to
get rid of her loneliness. As she started to lose her consciousness, she might need a psychological
therapy. In spite of having complete mindfulness she failed to recognize the monetary fraud. This