Unit 20 Title: Supporting Independent Living

Supporting Independent
Living

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Support of Technology in health and social care services....................................................1
1.2 Barriers to the use of technology.........................................................................................2
1.3 Benefits of technologies to health and social care organisations and individual.................3
2.1 Health and safety considerations in the use of technologies.................................................3
2.2 Ethical considerations in the use of assistive technologies...................................................4
2.3 Impact of recent and emerging technological developments................................................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Identify James’s specific needs in order to support him to live independently....................6
3.2 Make your own recommendations on how the Technology might support her independent
living arrangements.....................................................................................................................7
3.3 Evaluate the usefulness of technology for James and also for other users of health and
social care services......................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Independent living is capability of individual to live independently as well as
productively within community with freedom of choice as non-disable person (Finn, 2015).
Moreover, it can also explain as ability to examine alternatives for making informed decisions
and to provide appropriate direction to life of specific person. Everyone want live life according
to their desirability so they can spend money as well as time properly with good health. In
addition to this, independent living explain as ability of examining people where they are living
separately for spending their life. In other words, it is the movement where disable people work
for their self determination, equal opportunity as well as for self respect of own.
This report is based on given two case studies out of which first is of Sally and second is
James. Case study of sally will discuss important technology and its impact of developments
within health and social care. Apart from this, case of James will evaluate and recommend
technology for supporting independent living for user of health and social care services.
PART 1
1.1 Support of Technology in health and social care services.
In modern era, technology have improve the entire living standard of people and make
number of advancement in almost every field. In medical sector, technology have played a very
advanced role due to which individual can get various advantages in order to treat or overcome
specific medical diseases. The advance sort of technologies help the general public and entire
society which benefit them to live a healthier and diseases free life for more longer time frame.
The most critical thing to bear in mind is that there are still changes needed by the
implementation of advanced equipment and innovations. In the daily life of each affected
individual from the impairment issue, this will have a significant impact (Mbabazi, 2012).
There are many apps in this modern world that can help people with disabilities. Such
tools and electronic systems can help alleviate the autism issue in some manner as they can
connect with people better and can even eliminate the problem by rendering everyday work
experiences even simpler. From the given case scenario, Sally a 42 year old female have been
facing different issues like tingling and numbness in left foot and problem of double vision. In
order to overcome these she have a proper medical concern with a neurologist which provide her
with some medicines to recover same problems. Moreover, to remove the fatigue, neurologist
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advice her to change her routine activity and add something new in her lifestyle by considering
proper heath education. She was also asked by her GP to get the suggestion from a technology
professional in order to make proper use of available devices. As many technical devices can be
supportive to eliminate the problem of Sally and also support her to drive safely. Furthermore, it
would also support her children to complete their work on time that is consider to be most crucial
element for her.
As she faced many problems, for either the diagnosis of her kneecap, she was linked to an
occupational therapist. She is also pointed to as an expert in assistive which can help solve that
dilemma she has to address through type-up, lunch and every day life. Furthermore, she was
needed to cop up with a professional driver which will help in driving the cars in more secure
ways i.e. to keep accelerator on with left foot. Her grandparent ask, Sally to have a meeting with
social worker which will in financing activity and also make suitable decision to meet the daily
life basic requirements. When she has the app recognized as Personal digital support which could
be very useful to her, since by clicking a special button she will be told that her first mission is
over. However, this tool can help you manage some job related to health care.
1.2 Barriers to the use of technology
It was noticed that many obstacles are necessary to overcome in any patient's health and
they are technological resistant, budgetary resistance, information barrier among many others.
When addressing this whole issue, assistive software is among the key tools to help anyone with
an impairment making a right choice, and can help to address the question of dependence on
anyone else. From the case of Sally, it is determined that she was capable to continue and
manage the total work by making use of assistive advance technology (Morgan, 2012). The
problem of double vision was resolved by engaging large keyboard that includes character with
unique dark ink which help her to deliver the correct desired results. Even more the assistive
equipments are consider to be the main source for people having different disabilities issue.
Some of the common barriers related with Assistive technology has been discussed underneath:
Battery operation: In most cases, other batteries are controlled that are not secure for
injured patients. During the charging process, the individual can not use equipment that may
impact their daily activities. This system is not consistently safe to use by disabled person.
Chances of failure: As it is a technical equipment so there are even chances of failure in
Assistive tool. There can be different reason for failure like network error, fault and shortage,
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