Profession Practice and Cultural Safety

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DIMENTIA
Introduction
The second leading health issue in death in Australia is dementia. According to
Australian statistics, annually the estimated deaths of this health issue is 6.0 to males and 12.3 to
females. This depicts that especially in females it is the leading cause of death. The high rates of
deaths are experienced because the health issue causes a progressive decline to the individual’s
health hence many parts of the body do not function. The disease can lead to loss of memory,
lowering the intellectual capability, makes an individual not to participate in social skills and
physical exercise. It affects the old age group. The disease can also lead to disability among the
individuals affected with it in Australia. The disease is believed to affect more than 50 million
individuals’ globally. This means that most of the people of the region are affected by this health
issue (Edberg et al., 2018).
In Australia the country has formulated an approach which takes care and support all
people at all stages of dementia. One of the team is the Merri health innovative specialists. These
program provide intervention techniques and education to the patients with the disease. They
also have community services in which they bring care at their home. Moreover, this program
has helped the aged people living with dementia to fill the gap that is experienced in Australia.
Moreover, service dementia consultants in Australia provides emotional support and solves all
the psychological problems which they experience in their life. In these they are able to respond
to their behavioural changes in their life.
The health issue affecting most people at an old age in Australia is dementia. The most
common form is Alzheimer. According to the cultural view, the researchers believe that

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dementia in Australia is an epidemic which is based on the elderly and hence to treat the disease
the medical practitioners should consider the social-historical and cultural conditions. The people
of the social class are more affected with the disease because they don’t have the ability to access
the health care services, they do not have any support to treat the dead and hence eventually they
die because of their social class. On the gender factor, the disease affects females than males.
According to age, the old are people are more prevalent to the disease. It is evident that all the
areas in Australia are prevalent with dementia disease. The informal care provided by the friends
and family will contribute to the people living with the disease. According to these, the types of
health delivery to the health issue will be discussed, the social determinants of the health issue,
cultural safety, and person-centred care will be discussed in the essay (Kenning, 2016).
One major type of health care delivery offered to the health issue in Australia health care
is the primary care and community-based services. This involves timely diagnoses of disease
and the method is performed through screening. This is performed that the health physician can
access information, formulate evidence-based treatment and provide care and support to the
people with dementia (Kim 2017). Primary care involves screening older people so that they can
recognize individuals with the disease. The screening helps to treat the disease in its early stages.
In this patients with the positive results undergoes diagnoses and hence receiving the required
treatment. It is evident that older patients might fail to report for the screening process and hence
the medical practitioners visit their homes offering the primary care. In this case, the patients are
advised to visit health care annually for the wellness of their bodies. The government of
Australia has formulated a case finding a scheme which is aimed to increase and improve the
treatment of the health issue among the old individuals. This primary care practice helps to
decrease the death rates experienced in the country because the diseases are treated at an early

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stage. Moreover, medical practitioners also offer person-centred help to the patients so that they
can think positively about the disease (Wakerman et al., 2017).
The two types of health care offered in the Australian HCS concerning dementia are a
community –based and institutional dementia care. These two health care delivery has
contributed to the improvement of the disease due to the strategies applied in them. In
institutional care offered to a dementia health issue, it makes sure that the health care in Australia
have supportive services and specialized medical care to the patients with the health issue. This
institutional care is considered to be the best care of the dementia disease in that it treats the
disease even in its advanced stages ("Australia's health 2016, Summary - Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare", 2019). In these, the patients are taken care of in the hospital. In community
–based care this care involved the nurses to create awareness to the individuals who face
socioeconomic problems and hence offering help to them. This involves applying the primary
care first of screening and hence offering essential treatment to the individual. The institutional
care approach allows the medical practitioners to build a multi-disciplinary team which will only
deal with the cases concerning dementia in health care. In this, they believe that they will control
the death rates, provide a safe environment to the patients, ensure that patients take medicine
effectively and they are able to educate patients on the common issues of the disease and what to
know when the disease worsens (Jafarjalal et., 2017). On the community-based health care the
nurses offer the families being diagnosed care and also provides them on the guidance on how to
solve the issue. This is because when these patients in the community are not managed the
disease develops at the end stage and hence it becomes costly when treating it. Community-
based care helps the patient to be proud because he or she is given substantial care. In this case,
there is no need to go to the hospital because the nurses treat the patients when he or she is at