Critical Issues in Adult Care

Critical Issues in adult care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CW 1. To examine legal and ethical issues associated with adult care practice. .......................3
Covered in PPT...........................................................................................................................3
CW 2. To assess theoretical perspective in H&SC.....................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Adult care is referred to as a program or service which in turn helps in assisting
mentally and physically impaired adults. These individuals tend to require long term and
institutional rehabilitation and care (Mason, Cornes and Dobson, 2017). A theoretical
perspective in turn is referred to as the set of assumptions which is useful in addressing
the questions and find effective relevant answers in order to analyse results. This study
will critically highlight on examining the legal and ethical issues associated with adult
care practice. This study also examines the key safeguarding and abusive issues within
the health care sector. Furthermore, this study demonstrates the theoretical perspective
in health and social care in order to resolve such issues and provide better care
outcomes.
MAIN BODY
CW 1. To examine legal and ethical issues associated with adult care practice.
Covered in PPT
CW 2. To assess theoretical perspective in H&SC.
As per the case, Margaret Jones is the main care taker of the son Paul who
tends to have a learning disability. Paul tends to have high degree of depression and
anxiety. Paul is good at speaking his language but he has difficulty in understanding the
language of other people. June is a daughter of Margaret and they do not have a close
relationship. Margaret has suffered 3 falls within this year. This in turn happens
because of poor vision problem and poor balance. She again experiences a fall which in
turn results in broken arm and hip for Margaret. Paul has also been experiencing
persistent pain in the abdomen. He also tends to have headache and has difficulty in
sleeping.
One of the major and critical issue faced by the Margaret is that, it tends to have
faced institutional abuse because the social worker of the hospital were not acting in
authoritarian manner. Health care practitioners within the hospital institution tends to
have poor standard of care because they consider moving Margaret to the residential
facility because of the shortage of the beds within the hospital. One of the key
safeguarding issue because Margaret wants to go back to the Paul even she was
finding it hard to recover and was feeling restless. But the healthcare practitioners were

sure that moving Margaret to the residential facility will in turn leads to deterioration in
the health outcomes of an individual. Even though, the health care workers considered
to moving Margaret to the residential facility because of the lack of the beds within
hospital premises. Eklund, and et.al., (2019) sought to establish the fact that, Patient
centred care theory is appropriate within the case because it aids health care
practitioners in providing quality care to the patients which is responsive and respectful.
This theory helps in taking into consideration individual needs, values and preference of
the patient seeking care. Patient centred care theory is considered to be very useful in
improving the health outcomes of an individual which in turn results in improved patient
satisfaction, high degree of morale of the employees, higher productivity and in turn also
leads to reduction in the cost associated with the care. Methley and et.al., (2017) said
that, Patient centred care theory is considered to be very useful in defining the needs,
desires, goals and wants of the individual patients rather than focusing on the key
priorities of the health care practitioners. This theory is useful in enhancing the health
outcomes of the Margaret by providing them with proper medical treatment and
assessment by helping her to improve the vision and physical balance of the Margaret
in order to reduce fall. Health care practitioners must also focus on assessing Margaret
to recover from the broken arm and hip. Institutional abuse towards Margaret tends to
result in lack of poor care practice within the care setting of the Margaret. Institutional
abuse results in maltreatment of the person and poor standards of the care because of
the discharge of the vulnerable adult due to lack of availability of the bed or resources.
This in turn impose the patient at the greater risk of fall and disability. Safeguarding
people by protecting them towards the health of an individual, human rights, well- being,
etc. in order to provide high degree of care services to the patients. Rantell, Cardozo
and Khullar, (2017) sought to determine the fact that, Integration of Patient centred care
theory within the hospital sector helps in respecting the preference and needs of the
patients, integrating and coordinating care, providing physical comfort and emotional
support, involving family and friends and assessing care, etc. in turn helps in gaining
better quality care results in case of Margaret. Application of patient centred care
theory within the adult care sector in turn helps in better utilization of the resources,
improving the outcomes of the patients, increasing satisfaction of care among patients