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Impact of family life cycle transitions

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Student Name: Navjot Kaur ghumanStudent ID:e087748632475/03 Knowledge Test – Short Answer QuestionsE1144Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing, Home and Community)Module 8: This is assessment 3 of 3.1. Background/OverviewWhen you work as a support worker in community and home care,part of your work will involve having effective support relationships with clients’ carers and families.Working with carers and families can be a satisfying and positive experience for the support worker and together they can form a partnership to improve client experience and outcomes.2. BriefThis assessment consists of three (3) parts.This assessment provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the following areas:The carer role and the impact it has on carers, families andfriends.The impact of the lifecycle transitions and family structureson the personIncluding family and carers as part of the client support team and strategies to work positively with them and monitoring, promoting and assisting carers with their rights, their health and their wellbeing.DeliverablesPlease submit this assessment in Word doc format.To do list:1.Write your name and student ID in the space provided at the top of this page. 2.Read the background/overview and brief sections of this document.3.Complete the 3 parts.4.Write your answers in the spaces provided.5.Save the Word document using the naming convention: your student number_assessment number.doc. For example: “12345678_31135_01.doc.”6.Upload your document in Open Space using the relevant Assessment Upload link in this Module.
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3. QuestionsThe carer role and the impact it has on carers, families and friendsPart 1Read the scenario and then answer the questions that follow.You work at CareShore home and community services.You have just started to visit Anna to provide support to her at home. Before you supported Anna, you visited to provide support for her husband Kostas, who now resides at the CareShoreresidential facility.Anna is still at home and is missing having Kostas with her. She used to love to cook for him but since he is at CareShore, she has lost interest in cooking and has started to not bother to feed herself. She appears to have lost weight. You have noticed Anna’s low spirits and that she doesn’t have all the usualgroceries in the kitchen cupboards and the vegetable patch in the garden is starting to look unkempt. Previously Anna would have a Greek treat ready for your visit and she would urge you to eat some when you made her a cup of tea, but this has stopped as well.Often Anna would have her friend Dulcie visiting during the day. Dulcie lives close by down the street and she and Anna share a love of the garden. They have known each other for forty years. When you ask Anna about Dulcie, she is vague and says she is not sure what Dulcie is doing, she seems to be toobusy to visit.When you ask her, Anna says she has not visited Kostas in two weeks, as she is worried that it will upset him to see her, and it is a long way on the bus to CareShore. She says she feels guilty that she could not look after him like he wanted at home. She says she was too weak and she is useless. Anna cries and says she misses him, she misses feeling him beside her in bed at night, and that her life is empty.Anna is walking more slowly than she usually does and is always wearing her slippers, whereas before she always wore her shoes and stockings during the day. She says her arthritis is playing up and she sometimes gets a bit short of breath from her asthma.Anna says Sia and Irene (her daughters) visit when they can but she does not like to bother them as they have busy lives.When you are talking to Anna, Sia arrives and Anna immediately looks brighter. She tells Sia she is busy and coping well with her support worker’s assistance around the home. Sia looks worried.When you leave Anna’s home you find Sia waiting outside. She asks to speak with you and reveals the following;
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The family are very worried about Anna, as she will not let them assist her and she will not go to live with any of them.Anna has told her family that she has been visiting Kostas but they have found out from CareShore that she has not visited for two weeks.Sia doesn’t know what supports she can access to assist her and Irene to care for their mother and she is finding it difficult to take the carer role. Anna has always been the ‘rock’ of the family caring for Kostas and helping with grandchildren.Irene is a nurse, and she is worried that Anna is sick and won’t admit it. She has asked her to goto the doctor but Anna tells her that she is fine.Sia asks you not to tell Anna she has spoken with you. She does not wish to upset or embarrass her mother.A. The impact of being a carer can be felt in many different ways.Complete the table below outlining who is the carer, and the impact to the carer in each of the situations from the scenario.The situationWho is the carer in this situation?What are the impacts of the caringrole to the carer?Sia and Irene have been providing support to Anna and are worried about the changes in her health.Sia and Irene are the carer in this situation The impacts of the caring role of the carer in this prospect is better healthcare provision, enhanced healthcare approach and advanced or sustained healthcare approach and better lifestyle approach as well for Anna and also implementation of hope and energy for Anna that has been missing lately. The impact here is an engaging daily life process as well and this will also help in betterment of Anna’s health condition, given the fact she feels lonely and is getting engrossed with her health problems.
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NYS- Please focus on the situation. What is the impact to Sia and Irene of caring for Anna?Sia speaks to you about her concerns for Anna and how she hasalways been the ‘rock’ for the family.Carer is Anna in this contextImpact of the carer here is a strong and a well rooted family structure where there is a unity and also a sense of togetherness and a sense of understanding that can help in combining or associating all the family members together, which Anna had been doing for so long. It’s great that you were able to realise a positive impact to the carer.You see Dulcie down the street andshe says she doesn’t know what to say to Anna about Kostas going into CareShore. She says it makes itdifficult to visit Anna. Dulcie is the carer hereImpact of Dulcie as a carer here is brining in a sense of refreshment and happiness in Anna. The primary impact here is a sense of togetherness, spending of quality time and communicating as well that will have a positive impact on the health of Anna.NYS- Please read the situation again. It does not say that they are currently doing gardening together.What’s the impact to Dulcie by being a carer to Anna?NYS- Please resubmit the highlighted answers. The rest are good.
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B. Now that Kostas is in the CareShoreresidential facility, Anna’s care relationship with him has changed. State the current or potential risks for Annawith the change to the care relationship.Real or Potential Risk AreaWhat potential risks for Anna with the change to the care relationship?(20 words)Physical risk It includes falling down somewhere, lack of steady walking and also joint pain as she is having arthritis. Other risk includes breathing trouble and no instant support or care at the moment Emotional risk It includes loneliness, lack of a companion and also lack of love, care and support. Psychological risk It includes talking to herself, self thinking and depressionLoss of companionshipLack of assistance in day to day life and also lack of normal day to day activities like cooking, eating together and othersChange in perception of self Feeling less confident and energized, feeling down and also feeling lowly andde-motivated Satisfactory
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C: In this scenario, Anna is not visiting Kostas. Outline what you could do to assist Anna to visit Kostas and to participate in the changes and transition of moving him into Residential Care,giving two practical examples of what you could do to assist. (50-100 words).Here Anna can be encouraged to accept the change and thereby take it easily so that she can continue the emotional bond and connection that she has had for her husband for so long and that will help her or assist her in visiting Kostas in Residential Care. Example includes- creating some space for both of them at the Residential Care so that they can spend some quality time together and this will encourage Anna to visit her husband. Other example to assist Anna to visit Kostas include providing Anna with a private service of accompanying her to Residential Care as she cannot walk very steadily and is recently having acute arthritis problem. These are two ways or examples in this aspect. One example here is advising Anna to spend quality time when she is on a visit to her husband and also talk about all the happy and precious memories they shared together so that Kostas can feel jovial and gay and that will ease out the process of accepting the changed situation.NYS- Please think of one other strategy that you can do as a support worker in the home and community setting. Providing a space when she visits Kostas will be done bythe staff in the facility. What can you advise Anna to do when visits Kostas?
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