Health & Wellbeing: Individual Needs and Diversity in Case Study

This report delves into the concepts of health and wellbeing through the lens of a case study involving Grace, an 80-year-old woman with arthritis. It explores various perspectives on health, including the holistic approach, and identifies factors impacting Grace's health, such as age, family condition, and physical limitations. The report addresses the impact of diversity on her care, emphasizing the importance of person-centered care to meet her specific needs, including assistance with daily activities and healthcare access. Ultimately, the report underscores the significance of a holistic and personalized approach to improve Grace's health and overall quality of life, advocating for safeguarding her rights and providing comprehensive support.

Health and Wellbeing for
Individual

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Defining health and wellbeing from range of perspective..........................................................3
Identifying factor impacting individual health............................................................................4
Addressing impact of diversity in case study..............................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health refers to a state of complete physical, mental along with social well-being which
can not merely the absence of infirmity or disease. According to WHO, health is highly
important and can include the state of mental, physical and social well-being. Health and well-
being is fundamental for overall health within individual which can enable them to overcome
from difficulties and achieve better quality of life. There are various factor that can impact
individual health and certain source of information that can enable them to reduce the impact of
factor and help to plan better and effective healthcare decisions. Chosen case study is physically
disabled female and ageism. In this report, there is discussion about health and well-being
according to scenario and range of prospective that can enable model of health. There is also
discussion about identification of factor which can impact individual health that includes
different barriers, enablers for assessing healthcare. There is also a discussion about impact of
diversity within case study which can inform about the individual need and how to provide a
person-centred care for better health improvement (Abraham, (2019)).
MAIN BODY
Defining health and wellbeing from a range of perspective
For better and effective quality of life, there is a need to ensure about the health and well-
being. This can influence individual health and improve quality of life which can be explained by
any individual. In this, there is a case study about Grace who is 80 years old and live alone in her
village where she grew up. She is suffering from Arthritis in both knees and not having any
individual who can take care of her. She is not able to move and face difficulty in performing
various activity in her house. Grace needs proper care and support within household work and
daily activity. There is a need to implement model of health which can be highly effective and
allow Grace to improve quality of life by receiving better healthcare support.
Holistic approach is one of the model of health which is highly effective and can be
suitable and appropriate for Grace according to her lifestyle and requirement. In this, Holistic
approach refers to providing support for looking up whole individual in not just their mental
health need. This is the one through which a healthcare professional can take care about the
individual emotional, physical, spiritual and social well-being that can enable them to deliver
quality of care and support for improving patient health and their quality of life (Idowu, (2019)).

There are various aspect of Holistic health which includes mental, spiritual, social
emotional and physical aspect. In this, Grace need to get physical support that can allow her to
perform various activities within her house. This can be more effective and can support Grace in
improving our quality of life. Other aspect are also important where emotional and social support
can be more effective and support Grace to expand her life with better improvement in her health
and well-being. In this, there is a need for nursing staff to provide Holistic approach for
improving and supporting Grace for her life. In this, nursing staff should support in performing
daily activity within household work and monitor her health with some period.
This can be effective and allow healthcare professional to take care of Grace physical
health. This can be effective and allow Grace to improve health and get support from the nursing
staff (Montayre & et. al., (2019)). According to case study, Grace need to get some support for
visiting hospital along with going shopping. Through the Holistic approach Grace can get better
care and support and allow her to enable her for visiting hospital and help in the shopping. There
is also a perspective that a holistic care which can enable healthcare staff to take care about the
quality of life of Grace and improve her health. This perspective can be effective and can help us
to provide better physical and emotional support that can enable Grace to spend a quality of life
with some physical improvement within her health.
Identifying factors impacting individual health
Different factors can be identify within the case study that can impact on Grace's
declining health. There are some of the factor which may include age, family condition, Physical
health, need of support, possessing disease. There are some of the factor which have high impact
on Grace health. This can be considered as a barrier to achieve better health and well-being. In
this, these identified factors or barrier should be tackle for achieving better health and improving
quality of life (Dahl-Michelsen, (2020)).
Ageing is one of the barrier which is highly effective and creating the cause of declining
health. In this, there is need better care and support due to her age that is 80 years. She is old lady
and does not have physical strength to perform various activity on her own. Here, a holistic
approach can enable her to perform her household activity. It better impact and allowed to
provide better health and well-being (Delgado, (2020)).
Family condition is also one of the barrier for Grace to get support and care. She is
widow and her children have moved away. So, no one is there to care for Grace. Due to this, she

is all alone and need holistic care approach which can enable her to get better care and support
for spending her life with better effect.
Due to 80 years of age, Grace is physically weak and need for better support. She can
face difficulty in performing the household activity and her daily activity. Through getting
holistic approach can get able to perform those activities with some care and support.
Possessing disease also create a barrier for living quality of life. Grace need to get a
holistic care approach that can enable her to provide better health and ensure through monitoring
on regular basis (Wolffenbuttel, (2019)).
In this Grace have the individual right to get safeguarding and their support. In this, every
individual should taken care about their health and ensure about safety from harm or neglect. In
this, venerable adult get proper care safety and support for spending quality of life with
improving better health and well-being.
Addressing the impact of diversity in the case study
Diversity refers to causing rough interaction, cause discomfort, perceived interpersonal
conflict, lack of trust, concerned about disrespect, lower communication and other problem. This
is effective and can have a impact on Grace health improvement. In this, there is need to ensure
about addressing the impact of diversity within case of Grace. In this, there is a need to ensure
about the grace need that can allow her to get better health and well-being. Grace needs may
include care and support worker that can help her to perform her daily activity and household
work. This can also enable her to perform quality of life where Grace need some care support
that can enable her to visit hospital and helping her in shopping (Jeffreys, (2020)). These are
some of the basic need which Grace needs effectively. To fulfill this need, there is need to
provide a person-centered approach that can be also holistic approach that enable Grace to
receive quality of care and support in performing various activity for whole day.
A person-centered approach can be highly effective where healthcare professional or
nursing staff can provide care and support from performing every activity to the medication for
achieving better health and well-being.
Through person-centered approach Grace can take care of daily activity and help in
performing various activity, This can enable healthcare professionals to provide support to Grace
that can enable her to process better quality of life with improving in her physical health and
well-being. This holistic or person-centered care approach can be effective in delivery of quality

healthcare services to Grace (Liberatore, (2017)). This can also allow to keep monitoring her
health and take decision accordingly to achiever better and improved health.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that there are various factor that can impact a
individual health and well-being. There is high impact of the factor and perform various and
effective outcome for individual health and well-being. There are various prospective that can
relevant with the case study and have better understanding about providing support and care
through holistic approach. In this report, there is a discussion about out different range of
perspective regarding health and well-being. There is also discussion about factor identification
which can impact individual health. This report also includes addressing the impact of diversity
to perform better outcomes.

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