Understanding Specific Needs in HSC

This document explores the importance of addressing specific needs in Health and Social Care (HSC). It highlights the necessity of supporting individuals with diverse needs, including those with disabilities and chronic illnesses. The document discusses various approaches and interventions for supporting specific needs, emphasizing the importance of evaluation and the impact of emerging developments in medical science. It also examines the role of legislation in protecting individuals with special needs and ensuring they receive appropriate care and support.

Understanding Specific
Needs in HSC
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Specific needs in HSC.
 Health care is a very important aspect of an
individual’s life to be supported and helped to attain
healthy life.
 Health is one of the most important necessity of life
(World Health Organization, 2012).
 Needs of an individual in health and social care has
to be addressed and fulfilled to achieve quality life.

Need to support individual needs in HSC.
 In healthcare it is very essential to address all the
needs of service user.
 This will ensure patient oriented caring.
 It will also help in enhancing the quality of life of an
individual with support (Rankin, 2004).
 Fulfilling individual’s need helps in maintaining
dignity of the user.

Approaches and intervention for supporting specific
needs.
 Specific needs for special
cases such as disability and
diseases which require support
is to be identified and provided
to reduce the effects of the
condition on an individual.
 Different approaches can be
used considering the special
requirements of an individual
and competent services can be
provided (van der et al, 2013).

Evaluation of effectiveness of specific needs.
 Providing specific needs for special cases is essential
but evaluation of its effectiveness is also important.
 Educational, developmental and behavioural
strategies are to be implemented and evaluated to
pose effective outcomes.
 All therapies are provided but whether it is effective
and has positive results or not is to be examined
(Mirelman et al, 2011.)

Approaches used in some of the special needs
individual’s.
 Disability to be supported by appropriate mechanical
support. Ex. Wheelchair (Marinus et al, 2002).
 Alternative communication strategies for people with
speaking and hearing deficits.
 Biomedical interventions to support various pathological
symptoms of diseases.
 Health and social care services for people with Alzheimer
and other mental illness.
 Etc.

Impact of emerging developments for specific needs.
 Advancement in medical science and biomedical support
has led to new reforms in supporting individual’s with
incurable diseases.
 Though these advancements may not cure the disease
but it has surely be helpful in providing reforms in
supporting people with special needs (Dyson, A. (2001).
 These developments lead to enhancement in quality of
life with help of services and support from healthcare.

 Legislations also support enhancement of services to special need
individual.
 According to the Mental Capacity Act, 2005 individual with low mental
capacity are to be supported by health and social care services to form a
code of protection for the patient against the world.
 Disability act, 2005 also ensure that disabled and special need individual
should get equal and rightful treatment and support for their needs.

Conclusion
 It is evident from the discussion that specific needs of an
individual in healthcare is to be addressed properly
under legislative and biomedical framework.
 This will ensure quality services with ability to lead a life
full of dignity and support from society.
 Understanding and providing specific needs to an
individual’s a duty of every healthcare provider and
making the care a patient centred approach is essential
to get positive outcomes.

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