Client with Complex Needs Case Study on Diabetes Management

Running Head: CLIENT WITH COMPLEX NEEDS CASE
CLIENT WITH COMPLEX NEEDS CASE
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Introduction
This case study will discuss a client with complex needs. The study will take a look at a
single patient, experienced in the clinical profession, evaluating the influence on the standard of
care, as well as on the good health and welfare of the client, of fundamental features of concern.
The case study will enable caregivers to assess essential components of the case as well as
observation and treatment of treatment decisions made and efforts used, and to evaluate areas of
care in the description. This case will traverse the client's need for a patient named Dolphin, an
aged, shanty dwelling adult diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. She was referred to a medical
hospital after she was found living alone in a wanting environment while every member of their
family had neglected her. This study evaluates the features of Dolphin's care which connect to
the control of her situation, the evaluation as well as the monitoring of her social, community-
based, safekeeping and individual needs, as well as the forethought of her coming times need and
maintenance needs. Remarks will happen on government base guidelines and strategies, and to
experts working as a basic requirement of satisfying client needs in this case (Goodwin, Dixon,
Anderson, & Wodchis 2014, p.54).
Discussion
Diabetes is a long-term disease noted to influence conspicuously on the health, welfare as
well as the success of people, families as well as the entire society. Millions of people in
Australia are affected by diabetes. Diabetes has a substantial effect on the public health and the
on the National Health Service and the community –based care resources. The Health Sector has
issued a National Service substructure for the disease, which sets quality for control and

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identification of diabetes and summarizes professional procedures with the knowledge of the
currently available proof on the condition (Goodwin, Dixon, Anderson, & Wodchis 2014, p.54).
Diabetes occurs in two types. They are Type 1 and Type 2. The two types of diabetes are
marked by a tenacious high level of circulating glucose in the blood, resulted from the deficiency
of insulin or a seriously impaired insulin response, or to an association of both components.
Diabetes Type 1 occurs as a result of pro-insulin cells found in the pancreas, known as Beta
Cells, found in the islets of Langerhans, refusing in insulin production, since the immune system
in the body has damaged them. Type 2 diabetes is normally resulted by a lessened volume of
insulin produced by the cells, as well as the opposition of insulin amount in the body, in which
the response of the body’s metabolic reaction to insulin are not much sensitive. Type 2 diabetes
is the current situation which Dolphin, the client in this case has been conditioned (Wodchis,
Dixon, Anderson, & Goodwin, 2015, p.62).
Case Analysis
Dolphin is a woman aged 74 years who has Type 2 diabetes and has experienced it for a
decade. She gets treatment two times on insulin and happens on a daily basis. She lives in a
home where she was confined by the medical group to assist her as she was neglected at an old
age by her relatives. The group monitors her glycaemic management as well as examines her
insulin assortments and her welfare as a whole. Dolphin has a BMI of 35 and has a hypertension
background which is managed by the use of medicinal drugs. Monitoring of her blood pressure
was on a weekly basis. Dolphin lives with other clients confined in a medical institution that
assists elders who suffer from complex conditions as hers. Dolphin is an outgoing woman who

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establishes a friendship with people from different groups irrespective of the religion, race or
background. She is proficient in controlling her insulin as well as calculating her blood sugar.
Despite being proficient, she is not consistent on her prescribed course of medical treatment as
well as her advised diet since it may impede her social activities (Ogloff, Talevski, Lemphers,
and Wood, & Simmons, 2015, p.72).
Dolphin was spotted by a Samaritan who had noted her suffering and reported the issue
to the medical department of the institution. She was unconscious at the time of her recovery
since she was feeding on a poor diet and had no funds to buy her medicine. She was carried by
ambulance by paramedics who felt the need of assisting her. She was diabetic hypoglycemia
which is a condition resulted by an overdose of insulin or insufficient carbohydrate in an
individual subscribed to insulin, or by the client involving in too much exercise leading to
overuse of glucose or by a combination of both (Kinner, Degenhardt, Coffey, Sawyer, Hearps, &
Patton, 2014, p.86).
Paramedics noted that Dolphin's blood sugar was 1.4 mg/dl and controlled glucagon to
countermand hypoglycemia. Dolphin came back to normal when her blood sugar became better
and also provided with facial oxygen and her complete information about her status recorded.
She was later taken to the referred medical facility for a full examination to analyze her diabetes
where she remains accommodated to date. About emergency care propositions for the diabetic
clients, the interests are to rescue the client's life, ease their symptoms, avert diabetes
complications that relate to a long period as well as their recent risk features, and to device
protection which will lessen risk components for their health. The risk components are high