Supporting Individuals through Significant Life Events

Unit 22 - Supporting
Individuals through Significant
Life Events
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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Life changing event and their impact.....................................................................................3
P2 the impact of different significant life events on the individual’s family, friends and wider
social networks............................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3 Compare how different external voluntary and statutory agencies support individuals
through significant life events.....................................................................................................4
P4 the role of the healthcare or care assistant in providing support to individuals as a part of a
wider team of support services....................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P5 Relationship between organisational policies and the practical support available in health
and care settings to different individuals experiencing significant life events............................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
P6 period of appropriate support to an individual and their social network who have been
affected by a significant life event...............................................................................................6
P7Investigate referral processes available to support an individual and their social networks
affected by significant life events................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
The significant life changing event is considered to be that situation of one’s life which
brought some major changes which can be related with the marriage, family condition, issues at
workplace, injury, illness or relationship issue. These event not only bring changes to present life
of individual rather it also affects the forthcoming life too (Feeney and Collins, 2015). The
current report is based on an individual working within Care England a register charitable trust
which provide independent care services in England, for providing care to individual experience
a significant change in life. Under this report case of two individuals are discussed that are of
different age group and facing issues related with life changing event to represent its impact on
individual, support of social networks, external voluntary and statutory agencies.
TASK 1
P1 Life changing event and their impact
While moving toward different stages of life n individual face several expected or
unexpected event which have a great influence over their life and people associated with them. In
order to tackle these issues a care setting within an organisation plays a significant role by
assisting them to recover from these issues. While working over the senior position within Care
England I experience many cases of significant life change among people, among two of them
are of physical impact and bereavement (Naslund and et. al., 2016). In this one person named as
Mick in his old age approx. 65 year is experiencing a muscles pain throughout the body due to
absence of energy, which in turn affect sleeping capacity that further created stress, anxiety etc.
Another case I found was of a young woman of age 30 named as Lucy, who is suffering
from lung cancer which is a significant life event for her that brings several changes to her life as
a result she gets numb that means vanish of cherished behaviour. This is because her life get
totally changes, she get depressed and anxious about future. Hence, through these two-life event
I came to know that individual from different age group who experience the significant life event
went through several difficulties which highly affect their life and creates number of issues to
them. From the above-mentioned issues, it has been found that it usually bring negative impact
in term of depression, stress and grief. Addition to this, after suffering such kind of unexpected
event in life people usually faces change in their physical body and also find issues in doing their
day to day work.
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