Supporting Individuals in Life Events

The provided text discusses the significance of providing support to people who are recovering from life events. It highlights the crucial role of organizations and loved ones in this process, with various policies and practices in place to aid recovery. The text references multiple sources, including books, journals, and online articles, to emphasize the importance of support and well-being in these situations.

Supporting Significant
Life Events

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Impact of significant life events on individuals...............................................................1
1.2 Possible group responses to significant life events that occur to one of its members .....2
1.3 Analysing impact for others in health and social care when an individual......................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Effectiveness of organizational policies and procedures in supporting individuals and their
social networks.......................................................................................................................3
2.2 The way others in social networks may provide support to individuals .........................4
2.3 Suitability of external sources of support for those affected by significant life events. .5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Possible organisational responses to the need to support individuals ...........................6
3.2 Own personal contribution to the support of individuals.................................................6
3.3 Recommendations for improving the support in health and social care organisation for
individuals and their social networks.....................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Any life event occurred with an individual can have a great impact on his mental as well
as physical health. This makes a person thinks over that event again and again. Moreover, it
takes a long time to recover from it and make a person able to live a normal life. But, for certain
time period, the way of living life of a person changes (Tracy, 2015). It takes a lot of time for a
person to overcome from any life event. Usually, life events occur naturally. In this report,
dementia and bereavement are taken as the examples of life event.
This report shows about how an individual is socially and physically impacted while
suffering from dementia and bereavement. It shows that how different groups respond to
individual needs and life events. An analysis has been made on social and health care facilities
available for individuals in life events. Also, the way organisational policies and procedures
support person in overcoming life event are shown. Furthermore, recommendations are made for
improving the health and social care support to individuals.
TASK 1
1.1 Impact of significant life events on individuals
A person suffering from different life events affects his mental and physical health in a
different way (Oswald, Proto and Sgroi, 2015). It depends upon the way a person is able to react
and deal with it. Individuals start feeling lonely and his behaviour is completely changed. He
stops communicating with others and prefer to remain alone. There are three impacts on
individuals, that is, social, physical and psychological as described below:
Social impact- The social impact of life event is that people start avoiding interacting with
society. People suffering from dementia develop a feeling of grief. It changes their behaviour and
they get angry as well as frustrated. In bereavement, individuals stop talking with others and they
do not share their problems. Also, friends become an important part of their life as well as they
act differently with others.
Physical impact- It is related to the health of a person. Dementia people find it difficult to
swallow food and drink water (Zessin,, Dickhäuser,. and Garbade, , 2015). Moreover, they are
not able to sleep properly. However, they do not take proper diet that makes their muscles weak.
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Also, they feel tired most of the time and their blood pressure increases along with neck and back
pain which makes person weak.
Psychological impact- It is related to mental health of a person. In both the life events, persons
have a great impact on their mind. They are not able to understand the situation and reacts with
sarcasm. Also, they lose confidence in themselves and do not take interest in any of the
activities. Things done by them are often not proper. People do not easily trust others. Not
getting enough sleep affects their immune system as well. (Wahlbeck, 2015) .
Rita might have stopped talking to her friends. She might not feel
comfortable sitting and talking with her friends. Also, she didn't have share her
thoughts and might get angry on little things.
1.2 Possible group responses to significant life events that occur to one of its members
In order to overcome a life event, friends and relatives play an important role in helping
and supporting the persons. These people support them every time and always listen to solve
their problems (.Creech and et al., 2014) In case of bereavement, relatives and friends understand
the person. They motivate them to overcome the life event. A patient may be affected in a
positive or negative way. Also, social network of people provides support by fulfilling their
needs. Patients may feel guilty by showing negative behaviour towards their peers.
Apart from this, friends and family members also get frustrated. It is because; they are
Moreover, emotional and social support are given by the family and society.
Furthermore, there are various methods by which groups help individuals to support and
overcome the situation.
Associates- They are group of people who create association to provide help to people. They
help person by supporting the family members to get involved in life events.
Communal media- It refers to the social media through which person can share his views and
ideas. It helps them in getting relief by sharing their feelings. For example- when they share
thoughts and then people provide help to them (Billett,. Dymock,. and Choy,, 2016).
Websites- Internet can be a very useful tool in providing social support. There are different
websites through which useful information can be gained to overcome life events. It shows the
ways or methods that can be used.
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In social support Rita friend Sue and her 8 friends might have helped her to get medical
treatment. Rita residents should have supported her in doing so Besides this, in professional
support doctor have helped her in by making her understand about taking treatment.
1.3 Analysing impact for others in health and social care when an individual
In order to provide support to people to recover from life event other health is also
impacted. It is because they have to continuously deal with them to provide care. Also, it is very
difficult to deal with them as their behaviour changes quickly. Doctors, psychiatrist, etc. provide
social support to recover from life events while friends and relatives provide physical support.
Besides this, there are various charities that gives guidance and support. Books and articles are
there to know several methods that can be performed to overcome the life event. (Tracy,
2015)
Proper care must be given to overcome the loss of loved ones. But sometimes, it highly
impacts the social workers as he or she is not able to deal with that person. This affects the
mental and physical health of them (Kant,., 2017). With this, the behaviour of staff changes and
it becomes difficult for them to handle that person. Their personal and professional life gets
imbalanced and this makes them aggressive. Thus, there is an adverse impact on other's health
while dealing with bereavement people.
Due to death of Rita, Sue her best friend will be highly impacted. It is because they both
have been friends for 40 years. So passing of Rita can have a negative impact on Sue behaviour.
Sue might get upset and would have talked to others.
TASK 2
2.1 Effectiveness of organizational policies and procedures in supporting individuals and
their social networks
An organisation can be important element in providing support to individuals in
recovering from life events. An individual is highly affected at place of work. It is due to
pressure of personal needs that has to be fulfilled. Also, it is the duty of organisation to develop
policies that provide support to families of individual. Policies made are given below:-
National dementia strategy 2009- It was established to make people aware about dementia and
it various conditions. Also, it states that how to deal with it.
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Prime minister challenge 2012-- It states that communities must be developed to help people to
recover from dementia. Also, organisation must provide improve its working environment.
(Neff, 2016) .
Dementia discovery fund- In this many business provide funds to organisation who take care of
people suffering from dementia (Diener, Oishi and Lucas, 2015). This was established to
contribute business towards care centres.
Dementia communities- Various organisation have set up different communities or groups to
provide support to family of individual suffering from dementia. Also, they provide services at
work place.
Dementia research institute- This institute has been set up to identify dementia people and
helping them to overcome it. People are sent to care centres where they can be treated. For this
they been provided financial help by various organisation. (Kant, 2017).
In this case it was duty of social care organisations to provide support to Sandra. They
should have given social and financial support to her. Apart from this, government should also
develop some policies to help single women.
2.2 The way others in social networks may provide support to individuals
In order to recover from life events the relative and friends provide a huge support. They
help in living a normal life. Apart from this the social network or person like colleagues also
helps in overcoming life events. They provide various types of support like financial, social, etc.
A group will help Sandra in various ways so that it becomes easy for her to forget his husband
death and lead a happy life (Neff, ., 2016). They will change her behaviour by communicating
with her. Besides this several kinds of support is describes below:-
Physical support- It is given to improve the physical health of a person. For this different
strategies are developed to identify the needs of individual. Proper care is taken of person by
providing them healthy diet. With this individual feels happy and gets relief from grief.
Social care- It is given by social workers and groups. They work together to identify needs and
involving patients with society. Care workers can help Sandra in giving social support. This will
help her to recover from grief.
Psychological support- Sandra can go to attend sessions on how to recover from grief. This will
help her in changing behaviour. Also, her friends and relatives can help her in this situation.
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Spiritual support- It is given so that Sandra can easily communicate with others. This will help
her getting involved with others. With this she can trust others and her mind will get fresh. Also,
a better environment can be given to her to live. (Holston, 2015) .
Social relationship- having an effective social relationship with others helps in sharing views
and feelings. By this it becomes easy to talk freely with other regarding any problem or issue.
Thus, by solving this social relationship supports in grieving process.
Family and friends- family and friends play a crucial role in providing support. They help in
identifying our needs so that it can be fulfilled. Also, they motivate and encourage to overcome
from grief. Besides this, they provide a positive environment.
2.3 Suitability of external sources of support for those affected by significant life events
Apart from internal support, external sources can also be used to support people suffering
from life events. Thy will help in providing a better environment to overcome life events. Every
individual acts differently with others (Walsh and Kane, 2015). So it becomes difficult to
identify the nature and attitude of person. In this external sources can be very useful to fulfil their
needs. These sources are:-
Give and take treatments- In this certain methods such as therapy and homeopathy is used. It
helps in understanding the person so that its needs can be identified.
Meditation and dream- The best to recover form life event is meditation. There are people who
provide training for doing yoga. It main aim of these group in to provide treatment and care to
person recover from grief. (Berry and et..al., 2017)
Workplace support - It is related to work place support that is given by co-workers. There are
many communities that provide support to people. For example - Alzheimer's society is
encouraging people to work with employees so that focus of dementia people can be changed.
(Creech and et..al, 2014) .
Hospital care - It is provided by hospitals to improve behaviour of people. It helps in making the
person independent and comfortable. Also, doctors communicate with individual to identify need
and boosting confidence (Sobotka and Msall, 2016). It changes the mental health of person. In
this way, individuals can be recovered from life events.
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Yes, in Sandra case internet group should have supported her. They have helped her in by
giving social support. They should have communicated to her regarding needs. Besides this,
groups should have given financial support to her. No, Cultural competency is not required in
this case. It is because Sandra was already in shock so interacting with other people might have
impacted her behaviour in negative way.
TASK 3
3.1 Possible organisational responses to the need to support individuals
There are different policies made by organisation to provide support to people to recover
from life events. These policies are made to identify their needs so that it can be fulfilled. In this
the manager and employees observe the behaviour of person. This is useful in identifying what a
person wants and how his behaviour can be changed. Moreover, organisation can send person to
care centre so that he or she can get a better environment or facilities.
Second thing that can be done is to guide the patient for care centre. In involves clinics,
dispensaries, etc. where proper treatment and care be given. Experts provide these kinds of
services and follows up patient to observe his mental health.
Care giver organisation in UK provide social, physical care, etc. to patients. They have
proper plans and strategies to deal with different persons. It helps in providing effective care to
them (Holston, 2015). They are having experienced staff to help children, old age people and
youngsters.
At the top level there are health committees that develop procedures for providing care to
people. They set basic standards so that each individual can be given equal treatment.
Professionals and staff develop various methods to support bereavement people.
3.2 Own personal contribution to the support of individuals
My personal contribution towards supporting bereavement and dementia people will be
beneficial. I provided support to people but still in requires some more training and knowledge in
this. I know that different age group are having their own needs and demands so accordingly
strategies are developed to deal with them. Each individual reacts differently to life event and
therefore, their behaviour must be understood to identify needs. I found that youngsters are more
aggressive and do not any control on their behaviour. In this situation friends and relative can
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support it. Moreover, I think that mental care must be given to bereavement patient. This will be
useful in improving their behaviour. A person must be available to bereavement patient at the
time of need, it will help in recovering quickly. Individual suffering grief have to deal with
critical situations. This affects their mental and physical health (Wahlbeck, 2015). For this I
think that frequently communicating with them will give them different environment. This will
help in expressing their ideas and views. With this there will be change in their behaviour.
3.3 Recommendations for improving the support in health and social care organisation for
individuals and their social networks
Care organisation or centres can implement effective practices that will be helpful in
recovering person suffering from life events. Also, services or facilities can be increased so that
efficiency is improved thus people are given proper care and treatment. The following
recommendations can be followed for this:-
Integration and agreement- In this a care centre can provide better and more effective services
by integrating it with others. This will improve the service quality and person will be able to
recover quickly. Also, it will decrease the expenses and thus reducing fees of care centres.
Moreover, centre performance must be evaluated, it will be beneficial in providing funds to
them.
Ideas to improve quality of care- The quality of service can be improved by implementing new
methods or procedures (Berry et al., 2017). This will help in enhancing the efficiency of staff and
improving overall care centre operations. Thus, with this the quality of care can be improved.
Support groups- Care centre can take support different groups to add practises in services. This
will help to focus on each patient effectively so that his needs can be fulfilled. Also, the ease of
providing services will be increased leading to quick improvement in person health.
Resident care- Family plays a crucial part in providing support to people. It is because a person
remains very close to its family members. With this they can easily identify his needs. They can
help individual in overcoming life event.
In Sandra case, she should have clearly told her needs to her family and social care
providers. By this needs might have been fulfilled and it would have been easy for Sandra
to live normal live again. By this, the focus will be on providing care so that needs can be
fulfilled.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that a person suffering from different life events
affects his mental and physical health in a different way. It depends upon how a person is able to
react and deal with it. In order to overcome a life event, friends and relatives play an important
role in helping and supporting persons. These people support them every time and always listen
to solve their problems. It has also been assessed that in order to provide support to people to
recover from life event, other’s health also get effected. It can be articulated that organisation is
an important element in providing support to individuals in recovering from significant life
events. In order to make them recover from life events, the relative and friends provide a huge
support. There are different policies made by organisation to provide support to people to
recover from these significant life events.
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REFERENCES
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