Understanding Specific Needs in Health and Social Care

This report examines the specific needs of elderly individuals within health and social care services, focusing on the concepts of health, disabilities, illness, and behavior. It explores the changing perceptions of these needs over time, the impact of legislation and social policy, and the care needs of individuals with specific disabilities. The report also discusses interventions and approaches available to support elderly individuals with vision loss and hearing loss, as well as strategies for working with challenging behavior.

Understanding specific
needs in Health and Social
Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Concept of health, disabilities, illness and behaviour in relation to health and social care
service users.................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Perceptions of specific needs have changed over time..........................................................1
1.3 Impact of legislation, social policy, culture and society on ways that health services is
made ............................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Care need of individuals with specific needs.........................................................................2
2.2 Current system for supporting elderly with specific needs....................................................3
2.3 Services available in chosen locality for individual with specific needs...............................3
3.1 Interventions and approaches available to support elderly with specific needs....................3
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies for older people.......................................................4
3.3 Impact of emerging developments on support for elderly with learning and physical
disabilities....................................................................................................................................4
4.1 Different concepts of challenging behaviour ........................................................................4
4.2 Impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care organizations............................5
4.3 Strategies for working with challenging................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care services refer to facilities which has been provided by health and
social care organisations to well being of human as well as society well fare (Ross, Tod and
Clarke, 2015). The present report is based on health and social care facilities for elderly people
live within care home centres. It explains concepts of health, illness, disabilities and behaviour in
relation to health and social care services users. This study define perceptions of specific needs
have changes over time and also clarifies impact of legislation, society, social policy and culture
on ways that health services are made available for person's with specific needs. It justifies care
needs, current systems for individuals with particular needs. It also explains approaches,
interventions, available to helps people and different concept of challenging behaviour.
Furthermore, this report explains strategies for working with challenging.
1.1 Concept of health, disabilities, illness and behaviour in relation to health and social care
service users
Health is state of complete mental, physical and social well being, elderly health and
social care users face health issues in their lives. Over age of 60 they will not been able to learn
and understand things, older people face physical and learning disabilities. 80% of older people
live in middle and low income countries where they get ill due to pollution and harmful disease.
Specific condition: Learning and physical disabilities make impact on elder behaviour in
which they do not feel happy and get irritate quickly. Older peoples with physical disabilities
such as heart disease have high rate of depression (Bhugra and et.al., 2014). Older with learning
disabilities such as vision have higher rate to stress. Older people loss their memory after the age
of 65, they will not been able to learn something new or different which make impact on their
health and get them ill. According to “Good health and Well being” program in 2015, illness and
disabilities both is different, illness is sickness and disability is mental or physical issue that
make it harder to do daily activities in context of elder people.
1.2 Perceptions of specific needs have changed over time
Before government rules and policy in context of health and social care services, nurses
and other staff member perception towards elder people with learning and physical disabilities
will change. They do not provide them appropriate treatment and does not focus on older people
well being, which make the more ill. But nurses and health care specialist perceptions of learning
and physical disabilities have changed over time. Discriminatory practices, less of focus, poor
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care have been reduced over the time as way of thinking has been changed. Government pass
law in which people need to develop their health care practices more and improve it better than
before. Perception towards specific needs of elder or older people with many disabilities due to
their age is now changed, Developmental led over these changes.
1.3 Impact of legislation, social policy, culture and society on ways that health services is made
Legislation: Care Act 2018 provide the legal framework for elderly people, under this
act, councils contribute and promote independence and well being of working age or older
disable people and their carers. According to this act health care organizations have to focuses on
people well fare as it impact positively on ways that health services is made available for elderly
people with learning and physical disabilities needs.
Social policy: 65 age might be considered an elderly or older people, In England 10% of
adults population have play their unpaid role in give better health and social care services.
Approximately 5.5 million people in nation and around 1.4 million of whom offer upwards of 50
hours care per week. These perceptions towards elderly people improve ways in which health
service is made for them. Charity organizations collect funds for older people and provide
sources to improve their learning and physical disabilities.
Culture: UK adopt Asian culture of caring for elderly, British families follow example of
Asian people, by taking in elderly relatives once they cannot longer live alone. According to this
culture families take care about their elders and try to overcome their learning and physical
disabilities.
Society: the purpose of home community and society is based care is to maintain well
being and health of elderly with physical disabilities such as lack of vision, lack of physical
balance, they focus on preventing them from getting sick.
2.1 Care need of individuals with specific needs
In care home elderly people need to improve their learning and physical disabilities, older
people with intellectual disabilities required more care in care home centres, they need social and
family support to become more health and fit (Goodwin and et.al., 2014). Alzheimer is
considered as learning disabilities, older people with this disease causes issues with memory,
behaviour and thinking, they cannot be able to learn something and feed into their mind for
longer. As these people need special treatment because due to Alzhemier they feel depressed and
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stress led on its health and make her/his more ill rather than before. On the other side older
people with vision loss create problem as they cannot see things near or far by them clearly, thus
care home and other health care organization provide resources to them that helps to saw things
around elderly individual clearly.
2.2 Current system for supporting elderly with specific needs
Elderly with loss of vision and other disabilities needs specific health care services.
Within UK 1.3 million older people face issues for some disabilities such as vision loss, loss of
memory. Care Act 2018 is one of the best system in UK, it provides appropriate framework for
older social care and place responsibilities on councils to boost elderly people well being.
Councils need to help and support mostly older people under this Act, they want to improve
learning and physical disabilities of elderly services users. This Act makes clear that national and
local authorities should arrange or provide better health related services that helps to prevent
older people and develop needs for care and contribute and help people deteriorating such that
they need ongoing support and care. For example, elderly with hearing loss does not have
ability to hear sound, local authorities and care home provide hearing aid devices which helps to
hear sound clearly.
2.3 Services available in chosen locality for individual with specific needs
Menchester is one of the cities in UK, within this city there are many older or elderly
people living with their families, but most of the older are living in care home centres. Older
with learning and physical disabilities such as hearing loss, vision loss and another disability face
issues in living normal life. Hearing loss increase chances of any serious incidents which harm
life of elderly people. Thus, to prevent their lives hospital, health care specialist, qualified staff
and appropriate equipment of health treatment are the services available in Menchester for
elderly people with learning disabilities. Local authorities established health care centres and
available in right places where number of older people is higher.
3.1 Interventions and approaches available to support elderly with specific needs
Interventions to support elderly people with vision loss-
Elderly people with vision loss suffer a lot in their lives to saw colour and beauty of
world. Vision loss change their hole life in which individual get depressed and stress, medicated
eye drops is one of the best medical treatment that helps to reduce intraocular pressure and delay
progression of vision loss in older or elderly patients living in care home (Gardiner, Geldenhuys
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and Gott, 2018). Macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, cataract is the most common causes
of vision loss mostly among elderly age people. When axons in optic nerve is damaged risk of
vision loss from glaucoms occurs in which older people can no longer carry visual data to brain.
Eye operation is one of the another vision loss treatment that helps elderly people to overcome
with this disability.
Approaches to helps elderly people with vision loss-
Local authorities and health care organization play vital role in well being of elderly
people with vision loss. They provide subsidiary products and services to older people who are
facing problems in managing their lives for some reasons such as vision loss (Banerjee, 2015).
Growing age is one of the reason behind vision loss in which older people are not been able to
see anything around them. Local authorities collect funds and provide for elderly people that
helps to improve their loss of vision.
3.2 Effectiveness of intervention strategies for older people
Ageing is related to conditions such as cataracts and presbyopia, more subtle changes in
elderly vision and eye structures also take place as they grow older. Reduce pupil size as people
growing older is the change include ageing. Medicated eye drops is one of the best intervention
and appropriate treatment that helps elderly person with vision loss. Medication eye drops is very
effective in work as it support to improve vision ability of older better than before.
3.3 Impact of emerging developments on support for elderly with learning and physical
disabilities
Elderly people with physical disabilities such as balance loss, hearing loss and another
disability get impact due to emerging developments that helps older very much as improvement
in health care. Electronic wheel chair is one of the best emerging technology that support older
people for balancing their movements as it helps to make them able to do their daily activities.
Doctor and another health treating provider before Medicare support elderly people by pay for
power wheelchair, it covered only when people medically needs it.
Disable hearing aid is one of the second emerging developments that helps to support
elderly people with hearing loss.
4.1 Different concepts of challenging behaviour
Self harm or self injurious behaviour, aggressiveness, self stimulation such as pulling
their hair, slapping self, these are the different types of challenging behaviour (Weinhold and
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Gurtner, 2014). Most of the older people have aggressive in behavior they harm another people
and hit family and some time care home staff through hitting things around them. Older with self
harm behaviour harm itself through any sharp equipment, they get injured themselves and also
try to kill themselves because they get depressed due to growing age which make them ill and
create learning and physical disabilities among their body.
4.2 Impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care organizations
Self harm behaviour, self stimulation behaviour, hitting, punching and another behaviour
among people make impact on health and social care firms. Thus, it is very difficult for
organizations to handle these types of older, they need to hire more staff that helps to provide
appropriate health treatment. Nurses, staff members in health care centres might be need some
more workforce to handle older people with different types of behaviour. In older age some
people get anger on some changes in their lives and daily activities, they hit anyone in family or
staff which is very harmful as itself.
4.3 Strategies for working with challenging
Strategies for working with above challenging behaviour is very important, it helps to
provide right treatment with different types of behaviour. Hospital staff needs to understand
patients values and beliefs and try to communicate with them (Glasby, 2017). Communication is
one of the best way to make people feel comfortable which helps during health treatment. Staff
members specially nurses efforts to communicate with its patients, with the help of
communication they might be understand their feeling and identify individual daily life
activities. As it helps to work according to their needs and which make them happy and calm.
CONCLUSION
The present report discuss health, illness and disabilities in elderly people impact on their
behaviour and increase risk of depression among them. Nurses and health care specialist
perceptions for older people with learning and physical disabilities is changes over time
according to situations and after government policies in context of well being of human. Care
Act 2018, social contribution, culture within nation in related to elderly services users is change
they provide better services to them. It has been concluded that older with vision loss need
special treatment and care, hearing loss is one of the major issue that impact on elderly users.
Hearing aid, electronic wheelchair is the best services available in Menchester that helps older
people to managed their lives. Furthermore, self injury, self assumption is kind of behaviour
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within people that makes difficulties for health and social care organisations to manage. It has
been concluded that communication is the way to understand patients needs and make them
calm.
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