Local Community Resources and Provision for Integrated Care Planning

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
PART A...........................................................................................................................................4
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
Local community resources and provision that supports integrated care planning/working. 4
Local unmet needs related to healthcare provision................................................................5
Difference between health and social care providers and types of interagency care provision
................................................................................................................................................6
Evaluation of local resources..................................................................................................6
PART B............................................................................................................................................7
LO2..................................................................................................................................................7
Individual’s capacity to identify own care needs...................................................................7
Role of healthcare professionals in supporting individuals through person-centred care......7
Process of different person-centred assessments in defining own care pathway...................9
Evaluation of a capacity assessment to identify areas of improvements................................9
Reflection.............................................................................................................................10
LO3................................................................................................................................................10
Impact of own relationship with individual and multidisciplinary team in delivery of care
pathway.................................................................................................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
Need for person-centred communication in implementing person-centred plans................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
Dementia is an overall term which is used for diseases and conditions characterized by a loss
of cognitive functioning like thinking, remembering, reasoning, language, problem solving etc.
which affects the daily activities of a person. This also affects their ability of taking decisions
regarding basic things which are important in living a normal life and doing day-to-day
activities. Thus this condition requires that the patient is taken care of by the health professionals
so that they can live their lives effectively without depending on others. Dementia is increasing
in the old population of Slough Borough council with a prediction of 50% increase in the total
number of older people with dementia over the next 15 years. Slough Borough council is the
local authority for Borough of Slough in South East England, UK. As the problems related to
dementia in its population is increasing it is important that the people are given with high health
care which can help in giving personal care to the patients so that they can feel a part of the
community and can be supported in their old age. In this report a care assessment in which an
individual can choose their own pathway of care will be made along with a reflection on the
assessment in fulfilling the needs of case assessment.
PART A
LO1
Local community resources and provision that supports integrated care planning/working
In order to provide high quality and integrated care to the people who are in their old age
and whose independence or well-being are at risk it is important that the local community’s
social and healthcare units provide care to the people. This can help in protecting public health
and preventing ill health and premature mortality along with reducing health inequalities in
community so that high health benefits can be provided to people. There are a significant number
of people in Slough Borough who rely on adult social care services which makes it important to
provide integrated health and social care services to them so that the well-being of society can be
increased (Buggy and Moore, 2017). There are various resources present in Slough that provide
integrated healthcare services like Public Health Nursing 4 Slough which provides an integrated
0-19 public health nursing service and up to 25 years for individuals with Special Educational
Needs and Disability (SEND). The team provides supportive, focused and caring culture so that
innovative solutions can be found and better health in the society can be promoted. Berkshire

Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) is a specialist mental health and community health
services trust which also helps in providing integrated healthcare facilities to the patients in
Slough. The Joint Strategic Needs assessment (JSNA) is the means by which local authority and
its partners assess the healthcare needs of Slough Borough which help in determining the level of
integration of healthcare services which needs to be done. There are also various services present
in the Borough which help in providing services to the dementia patients like Langley Haven
Dementia Care Home, Care Services Slough, Oak houses etc. These centres provide high quality
services to the patients of dementia so that they can live their lives efficiently and also do their
regular daily activities effectively. These service providers also stay in touch with the family
members of patients so that high quality and effective services can be rendered to the patients
through integrated health care.
Thus all the above determined organisations help in providing integrated healthcare
services to the people who need support to live their daily lives in an efficient manner. Also
many residential and nursing care homes are available in the Slough Borough that helps in
providing personal, emotional and other care to the people while also enabling them to live as
independently as possible in a safe environment (Bearne and Sevdalis, 2019). This help in
increasing the sustainability of the healthcare system and also help in ensuring that the healthcare
needs of people are effectively met. The Care Act, 2014 help in improving the health care
facilities by including various new responsibilities so that along with integrated health care the
patients are also given independence, well being and dignity. Thus in Slough Borough various
community resources and provisions are present that help in enhancing the health facilities so
that better care and protection can be given to people along with ensuring integration of health
and social care so that overall promotion of well being in the society can take place (Gillespis
and Hawkins, 2017).
Local unmet needs related to healthcare provision
In order to ensure healthy society it is important that all the healthcare related needs are
efficiently fulfilled so that the health and well being of the people in society can be promoted
which can help in ensuring a better and sustainable environment. This can be made possible by
identifying all the unmet needs related to healthcare so that health conditions in population can
be prevented and better health facilities can be given to population (McEvoy and Jatana, 2017).
In the Slough Borough, the unmet need/gap related to healthcare provision which has been