Care Interventions for Empowering Vulnerable Groups with Chronic Conditions

Safeguarding in Practice

Topic: A review of Care Interventions for empowering vulnerable group or
persons
Today, a number of people are living with lower quality of life (QoL) due to some chronic
conditions which adversely impact the health. It includes poor employment, less social
interactions, mental and physical disorder etc. Therefore, to improve health of such people, care
services are integrated on routine basis with aim to enhance QoL and get a number of potential
benefits (Patmore, Meddaoui and Feldman, 2019). An essay is made to determine the overall
effectiveness of care interventions, that are integrated to improve Quality of Life, for vulnerable
groups or persons having chronic conditions. For this purpose, a case study based on Clarrie is
chosen, who is a young women and having an eating disorder problem. Due to improper diet
from few weeks, this patient is frail (Hamilton, 2019). However, community mental health team
provides support to this woman to overcome from mentioned problem, because she lives alone in
a privately rented flat. But Clarrie has refused to accept any such kind of support and seeing her
vulnerable condition, landlord has asked to move out from their property. Considering this case
study, some interventions are given in the present essay, for empowering Clarrie to accept the
services of community health team, for well-being.
Eating Disorders can be described as illnesses which are characterized via habits of irregular
eating, that severe distress about shape or weight of a body (Valbrun and Zvonarev, 2020).
Disturbances related to eating may include excessive or inadequate food intake that ultimately
leads to damage the well-being state of an individual. Therefore, it would highly affect the health
of individuals in both emotional and physical manner, it potentially sometime leads to create life-
threatening conditions also. Along with this, eating disorders also affect organ system of body
such as cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, neurological and more. The health consequences of long
term eating disorders are constipations, frequent vomiting, blood sugar fluctuation, blockages,
lowered sex hormones, prolonged and severe dehydration etc. In general, the most common
forms of such eating disorders include problems like Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder
and Bulimia Nervosa, which may develop in persons regardless of gender and other biological
components, at any stage in life (O’Connor and et. al., 2019). But typically, it may appear during
young or teenage years which highly affect their quality of life. Classified such issues as a
medical illness, if appropriate treatment is given then it would help in healing the specific types
of eating disorders. In context with present case study of Clarrie, as she lives alone in a rented
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