TASK 11 1.1 Health, disability and illness concept in context of health and social care services

UNDERSTANDING
SPECIFIC NEED IN HEATH
AND SOCIAL CARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Health, disability and illness concept in context of health and social care services.............1
1.2 Change in the perception of specific need over time............................................................2
1.3 Impact of legislature society and culture on the availability of services..............................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Care needs of people with specific needs.............................................................................4
2.2 Current system for supporting individual with specific needs..............................................5
2.3 Service available in chosen locality for individuals with specific needs..............................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Approaches and interventions to support individuals with specific needs...........................7
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention activities.................................................................................8
3.3 Potential impact of emerging developments on support for individuals with specific needs
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TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Concepts of challenging behaviour.....................................................................................10
4.3 Strategies for working with challenging people behaviours...............................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care industry has been emerging as the leading industry in current
times with growing awareness of well being of health and increasing difficulty in living give the
needed boost to this industry to grow. It provides support and care for people with special needs
and different ability. It provides health and social care for people who are impaired, disabled and
could not do there work on their own.
The current report discuss health and social care industry its definition and perception
while giving detail study of needs of people and role health care play to meet there requirement
in context of cited firm. Furthermore, different approaches and health care intervention are
evaluated and there effectiveness in context of case are discussed. Challenges and strategies are
also mentioned here.
TASK 1
1.1 Health, disability and illness concept in context of health and social care services
Health and social care services have many terms and concepts. Health and social care
concept depict that that service provider of this industry should be cleared and understand what
this industry is about to provide there services in best and perfect way (Lowes and Hulatt, 2013)
The person who provide this services need to behave in target and certain manner. The
objectives of these services can be harmed through the misconception and misunderstanding of
concept related to illness, disability and health. The concept of disability, illness and health are
mentioned below in the reference of health care services.
Disability:
In simple words it can be defined as loss of sensory function. It can also be explained as
those people who have sensory impairment for long time it can be physical mental or
intellectual. These issue may cause hindrance to people and stop them from effective and full
participation in society on equal basis. WHO has also identified various implication of this
which include impairment, limitation of activity etc. International labour organisation has
declared that only those people will be declared as disabled who are assessed and determined by
medical practitioner (World Health Organization, 2014). It necessary for healthcare services to
tackle these people with care and make sure that they do not feel inferior.
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Health:
Health means the well being of a person it can be both physically and mentally. WHO
has defined health as a state where a person is well not merely when it is free of infirmity and
disease but also if its mentally, physically and socially well. According WHO a person is in ill
health until the disease is cured at that time person is considered to have temporary poor
condition or defect which affect there mental and social health (World Health Organization,
2014). Peter was physically abused it was clear from the postmortem result that child was
physically abused and needed proper health care and attention, it also comes to forward that the
abuse was done not recently but was going through long time
Illness:
On the basis of perception and emotion illness vary from person to person (Rogers and
Pilgrim, 2014). It plays important role in diagnosing the sickness and disease. The way a person
monitor there body, interpret different symptoms, take action for the remedy and use different
way and health care system are defined as illness.
Behavioural Issue:
Sometime a person can face serious mental illness such as depression due to behavioural
change. In simple words we can say that it's a transformation in the attitude of individual. It fill
the mental perception of a person with negativity which not only affect the health of person but
also increase the aggressiveness of person toward other.
1.2 Change in the perception of specific need over time
The belief and value of people are changing as they are moving toward the newer world.
With this advancement there is a great change in the perception of people. People has started
seeing specific needs in new light. Time has taken the drastic turn gone was the time when there
were act like asylum and poor law act where this disabled people were mistreated and were put
under poor house with no opportunity to talk to other people (Bowling, 2014). There have been
growing awareness regarding people with specific needs. World is more understanding toward
them and realize that these individuals are more vulnerable to harm exploitation and abuse
comparatively to other people in society. Society also recognize that if correct measures are not
taken in there account it can have life threatening consequences which can be physically or
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