Social Care practice with older people Assignment
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Social Care practice with older people Assignment
Added on 2021-01-02
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1DESCRIPTION................................................................................................................................1FEELINGS.......................................................................................................................................1EVALUATION................................................................................................................................2ANALYSIS......................................................................................................................................2CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3ACTION PLAN...............................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTIONSocial isolation means the quantity & quality of the social relationships which a personhas at individual, community, group & societal levels. Apart from this loneliness is a subjectivefeeling that is faced when there is a difference between a person's felt & ideal levels of socialrelationship. Furthermore, it has been examined that older adult are especially at risk, when latelife changes that affect social connectedness & social networks. The report aims to demonstrateintegrate relevant theory to highlight your understanding of primary prevention in relation tosocial isolation and loneliness among older people from a social care perspective.DESCRIPTIONIt has been determined that there has been a growing in this topic of social isolation andloneliness among older people over years (Christiansen, Larsen and Lasgaard, 2016). Moreover,elder aged people are considered as more vulnerable to loneliness & social isolation, and are atrisk of number of health and social problems which can be connected to aloneness directly. It is akind of state of social segregation; emotional loneliness that appear in the absence of close ones.It has been observed that, the range of lonely and isolated older people are seeking for assistanceand this has risen by 42% in past few years reflecting Ireland's rapidly ageing population. I am a social carer, taking care of a lady in Ireland since 2 weeks and her name is AnnetteEgan. She is 75 years old professional woman, very happily married & having two children. Shenever thought that she would feel the kind of loneliness that makes her heart feel pain (Cohen-Mansfield and Perach, 2015). Due to work, she moved to Wales 20 years ago and met herhusband and settled into life there. Then they both decided to return to Ireland two years ago sothat their children would grow up there only. But afterwards she regretted about that decision andshe realised that she never felt that loneliness before. Their children left them alone, and afterfew months her husband died and she is living alone from last 2 months. She works full-time sothat she can ignore her isolation feeling. Even she does not have any close female friends anymore in this country and she craves it & miss it so much.FEELINGSI have been taking care of her, and after I heart her story I felt very bad for her as after allthis that has happened to her, she left her job and now she is living alone at home, performinghome based work for survival. Following the death of her husband Mrs Egan became1
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