Understanding Specific Needs: A Case Study of Mr. HL with Dementia

UNDERSTANDING SPECIFIC
NEEDS

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................2
AC 1.1 In relation to the people who use health and social care services analyze the concepts
of behavior, health, illness and disability (M3)...........................................................................2
AC 1.2 Assess how perceptions of specific needs have changed over time................................3
AC 1.3 Analyze the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture (D3).....................4
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
AC 2.1 Analyze the care needs of Mr. HL with specific needs (M1).........................................5
AC 2.2 Explain current systems for supporting Mr HL with specific needs (D3)......................7
AC 2.3 Evaluate the services available in a chosen locality for Mr HL with specific needs (D1)
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Task 3...............................................................................................................................................9
AC 3.1 Explain the approaches and interventions available to support Mr HL with specific
needs............................................................................................................................................9
AC 3.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of intervention strategies....................................................11
AC 3.3 Discuss the potential impact of emerging developments on support of Mr HL...........12
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................13
AC 4.1 explain different concepts of challenging behaviour based on Mr HL case study.......13
AC 4.2 Describe the potential impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care
organisations..............................................................................................................................14
AC 4.3 Analyse strategies for working with challenging behaviours associated with specific
needs..........................................................................................................................................15
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................17

Introduction
Understanding the specific needs of the person include the identifying of the type of disease and
type of treatment that patient requires form the team of the health and social care. In this reported
case of Bourne, the wood hospital will be given which is the care home and provide the support
and care to the patients who are suffering from any disabilities. In this respect case of Mr. HL
will be considered who is suffering from dementia disease which is related to the mental illness.
This report will include the identification of the Mr. HL specific needs and the ways to cover his
needs to satisfy him. There are some of the interventions through which also they can improve
their services and help the patient to overcome the mental disability problem. This report will
also discuss the different type of challenging behaviour of the person due to which patient, as
well as organization, suffers but some of the strategies will also provide to respond towards the
challenging behaviour of the person.
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Task 1
AC 1.1 In relation to the people who use health and social care services analyze the concepts of
behavior, health, illness and disability (M3)
Concept of Disability and Health Issues
In every individual’s life one of the most important factors is health. But, as the lifestyle of most
of the people is changing day by day due to which people are facing some heath related issues in
their life. Disability is one of the more severe problems which the people are facing in addition to
the health issues. The concept of disability differs from that of Illness. The concept of Illness can
be defined as a manner in which the body of an individual responds towards particular
circumstances under which the individual’s body is not considered as normal. Therefore, Illness
involves the ways in which the individual react to the changes around him, identify and interprets
the symptoms, and in order to resolve the issue he takes some medical actions (Oliver, 2017).
On the other hand, by considering several factors the term Disability can be defined. These
different factors comprise of an individual’s pathologic conditions, abnormality and medical
model. It is difficult to standardize disability but in general handicapped, physically challenged,
disabled and crippled are some common terms that are used to refer disability (DePoy and
Gilson, 2004). Classification of Disability can be done as leprosy, loco motor disability, low
vision or blindness, mentally retarded disability, hearing disability.
Models of Disability
Different “models” are there of disability. However, “social” and “medical” models are the two
most common models of disability. Under the “medical” model of disability, disability is
perceived as an "issue" that fits in with a weak single person.
A society debilitates an individual’s is the thought drawn out by this model. In the social model
there is an extensive that to diminish and eventually evacuate the incapacitating obstructions the
society has an incredible arrangement (Mackelprang and Salsgiver, 2016). As opposed to the
handicapped individual, the society is obliged to this assignment.
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AC 1.2 Assess how perceptions of specific needs have changed over time
Few years back it can be notices that people who had certain disabilities were left out from the
social circle and were not accepted by the society easily. Disabled people usually get neglected
by other people and also they avoid interacting with the disabled people. But nowadays, this
situation is getting changed due to gradual changes in the mentality of people and the social
culture. Now, people try to make efforts to involve the disable people in social circles; for the
development of disabled people different NGOs are also stepping forward. In addition, various
activities are also organized by the government especially for the disable people so that they can
exhibit their hidden talents (Chatterji et al, 2015). Dementia is a common example of such
activities. Furthermore, to provide equal opportunities to disable persons, seats are reserved for
disabled persons.
In the 19thcentury, the state help provided to the poor and handicapped people was restricted by
the supporters of social Darwinism. The supporters observed that is the “unfit” would get
safeguarded then the procedure of characteristic determination would get hindered and the choice
of the "best" or "fittest" will get altered.
Persons who are disabled are usually not accepted in some cultures, they are treated as outsiders
in few other cultures, whereas they have to deal with financial liabilities in some cultures or
some families keep them alive unwillingly (Goodley, 2016). Disable people receive different
treatment in different cultures. In some cultures they are treated in accidental courses, whereas in
some other societies disable people are given regarded status.
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