Identifying and Meeting Health Needs of Individuals with Learning Disabilities

Learning Disability-
Identifying and Meeting the
Health Needs
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Health and care needs by Carlos :................................................................................................3
Nursing Interventions to Meet Care and Health Needs of Carlos...............................................4
Various nursing model and framework to assess health care needs............................................5
Identify constraints in implementing care plan...........................................................................8
Various roles played by multi disciplinary framework and their families..................................9
Legal and Ethical Principles of Person Centred Healthcare Approach.......................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Disability identifying and meeting the health needs is very necessary task for providing
excellent health care services to disable person. Currently different healthcare organisations
within different countries are taking various innovative steps towards for identifying disability
within local people for providing them the best health care services. Currently NHS (national
health services) of the United Kingdom also plays very great role in identifying disability to meet
the proper health need (Grue, 2016). That’s why local disable people within the UK are very
satisfied with healthcare services which has provided the NHS. This report mainly discusses
some appropriate ways for identifying disability. Some other important factors also have been
included in this report which has based on healthcare of disable person (Weber, 2017).
MAIN BODY
Health and care needs by Carlos :
 Health of Carlos needs high attention by nurses and doctors who could provide proper treatment
and assistance to patients where they can address various issues faced by patient, which will
leverage fundamental aspects on which Carlos can feel better. The doctors and nurses should pro-
vide various therapy sessions to him through which his anxiety issues can be controlled and fur-
ther counselling should be governed towards optimum best techniques which could provide better
treatments to him for his future lives (Thaut and Janzen, 2019).
 Carlos faces difficulty in verbal and non-verbal communication where he faces difficulties his
livelihood activities and also towards studies within academic lives for establishing strong work-
ing performance. The doctors should look before this problem and take classes of him where
speaking and language barriers should be treated and ethical they should not hurt his sentiments.
Carlos working efficiency can be improved with slow pace of time and regular practice sessions
by therapists (Wong and et.al. 2019).
 Carlos autism problem, Fragile x syndrome has largely affected his sensibility and physical abili-
ties towards various performances within varied horizons which has also impacted his attitude to-
wards life’s essential duties. The doctors and therapist should take care of health and care needs
of Carlos by taking special care of not hurting his sentiments and providing him proper acre and
nutritional diet by which they can enhance his working abilities (Velmeshev and et.al 2019).
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 Carlos autism problem has lowered his abilities to gain practical experience towards lives
through low working performance towards academic careers, which has impacted his morale
highly on various margins. The autism treatments should be taken place by doctors, healthcare
practitioners where specialised services towards person care and personal ethics should be taken
high care for not hurting his sentiments (Hviid,Hansen and Melbye, 2019).
 Health and care needs of Carlos can be understood that he faces difficulty in normal walking
also various times in his life through which his sentiments and physical activity of life has been
lowered. The various impacts on his personal lives and his disability to perform well in his col-
lege has highly lowered the various parameters on which doctors and nursing practices should fo-
cus so that required practices of treatments should be governed (Holiga and et.al 2019).
 Carlos faces Fragile X syndrome where various inabilities and low potentiality to perform vari-
ous functional operations in day to day lives where the practical working efficiency has been low-
ered due to high impact of autism (Chou and et.al 2019). He faces difficulty in communicating
with people and memorising various important topics in lives due to which the rational proper
treatment should be given. Family and friends also play an important role in contribution towards
cooperation while Carlos get treatments and therapy sessions by doctors, nurses in his home and
proper care should be given to various functional parameters and ethics so that he feel comfort-
able for long time in treatment (Davidson, 2019).
Nursing Interventions to Meet Care and Health Needs of Carlos
There are several healthcare and nursing interventions that can be used to meet the care
and health needs of individuals suffering from Fragile X Syndrome or Autism such as Carlos.
These are as follows:
Diagnosis: Firstly, the patients suffering from Fragile X Syndrome or Autism such as Carlos
needs to be adequately diagnosed of his condition by the healthcare nurses by a combination of
visual screening and appropriate medical tests in order to assess the exact details of their
conditions (McGuinty and et.al., 2018).
Referrals: After the patient has been diagnosed for Fragile X Syndrome or Autism condition,
they need to be referred to all appropriate healthcare professionals, which can provide necessary
treatment to them such as psychologists, therapists, counsellors and neurologists or a
combination of these.
Education: Another immensely important nursing intervention is the education of the patient’s
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