Dementia in City of Westminster

Dementia in City of
Westminster

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
AREA PRESENTATION................................................................................................................3
PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE AND JUSTIFICATION; HEALTH INEQUALITIES; MAIN
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH....................................................................................4
LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES; SERVICES AVAILABLE; WORKPLACE SETTING 7
AREA OF INTERVENTION..........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSIONS..............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Public health can be defined as a science and art with the help of which disease can be
presented within the society in such a manner that the quality of life can be improved. To ensure
this various public, private and community organisation implement policies so that major
influence on the larger section of the society are managed (Hughes and Williamson, 2019).
Analysis of several determinants of health within the population and threats which are faced by
them are considered to be the basis for the public health. In this report the problem of Dementia
is analysed in the city of Westminster. For the report the analysis of the characteristics of
population is facilitated along with the health status of the population. The issues which are
commonly faced by the population of the Westminster i.e., Dementia is taken in the report for
the selected group of population along with the inequalities which people belonging to different
classes faces. In addition to this different social determinants are identified related to dementia
for which the policies and strategies incorporated within the location are identified.
AREA PRESENTATION
Profile of the whole of practice area: I have been working as a care worker at the Carlton
Dene Residential Care Home which provide day care services as well as residential services to
the paints suffering from Dementia, Alzheimer and any other physical disability so that better
care are provided to the people suffering from Dementia in Westminster. The organisation is
mainly offering services to the elder patients. I have to take care of the patients which have
staying in the centre as well as for the day in term of giving them medicines on time, encourage
them to learn how the patient must behave when they forget about sometimes (Hayashi, 2017).
Also my responsibility is to make the workplace safe for the patients as may are not aware of the
use of various equipments due to dementia which can lead to significant level of accident. The
person related to the patients that I have to deal with are to be managed as they have to provided
reports in context of their recovery and the care that they have to provide them at the home or at
personal level. Along with this the GP's who has been treating the patients must also be
consulted time to time so that changes in the schedule of the patients can be ensured as per their
behaviour in different situation.
Overview of the Location i.e., Westminster: Dementia is considered to be the situation in
which people faces various symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, problems in thinking and