Analysis of Specific Needs in Health and Social Care Services

This report comprehensively analyzes the specific needs of individuals within health and social care services. It begins by defining key concepts such as health, disability, illness, and behaviour, and explores how perceptions of these needs have evolved over time, considering historical, social, political, and technological influences. The report then evaluates the impact of legislation, social policy, society, and culture on service delivery, followed by an assessment of the care needs of individuals with specific needs. It examines current support systems, available services in the UK, and various approaches and interventions designed to support individuals. The report also addresses challenging behaviour, its impact on health and social care organizations, and strategies for effective management. Overall, the report provides a detailed overview of the multifaceted aspects of healthcare and social care, emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing individual needs effectively.

Understanding specific
needs

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Analysis of the concept of health, disability, illness and behaviour ....................................1
1.2 Perceptions of specific needs which are changed over the period of time............................2
1.3 Evaluation of the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture over services.....2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Evaluation of the care needs of individuals with specific needs...........................................3
2.2 Current systems to support individuals with specific needs.................................................4
2.3 Services which are available in UK .....................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Approaches an interventions which provide support to individuals.....................................5
3.2 Effectiveness of the intervention strategies...........................................................................5
3.3 Potential impact of emerging developments for support of individuals...............................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
4.1 Different concepts of challenging behaviour .......................................................................5
4.2 Impact of challenging behaviour upon health and social care organisation ........................5
4.3 Strategies which helps to work with challenging behaviours...............................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health is one of the important aspect for the individuals to perform their daily functions
in effective manner. There are many new health issues are emerged day by day which have
adverse impact upon the health. It is the responsibility upon the health and social care industry to
identify the specific needs of individuals while providing health care facilities for their optimum
care. In this regard they have to adopt new technologies to attain competency in their functions
to provide maximum benefit to the individuals of society (Morgeson, DeRue and Karam, 2010).
In the present report explain about concept of health, disability, illness and behaviour in
relation to individuals use health care services, change in the perception of specific needs, impact
of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the services which are provided as per
specific needs of individuals, various care needs of individual with specific needs, current
systems which support individuals with specific needs and approaches and interventions which
are present to support individuals with specific needs. Also, different concepts of challenging
behaviour and strategies which helps to work with challenging behaviour.
TASK 1
1.1 Analysis of the concept of health, disability, illness and behaviour
Health, disability, illness and behaviour and important terminologies which are need to
understand specifically to provide optimum care to the users of health care services. This will
provides the opportunity to effectively provide the person oriented services to bring effectiveness
in their operations. The concept of different terminologies are defined below:
Health: It is refers as the complete well being of an individual of society in terms of
mental, physical and social. This is not considered as only the situation which is in absence of
disease or infirmity. It is the fundamental right of human being (DePoy and Gitlin, 2015).
Disability: It can be refers as the situation of an impairment that can be cognitive,
developmental, intellectual, mental and physical and some combination of these. It can arise to
the individuals at the time of birth or during their lifetime. This will adversely affects their life to
perform their daily routine works effectively.
Illness: It is referred as the personal state of an individual where they can feel unhealthy
and ill. It is not necessary that illness in an individual is related to disease. It is observed that
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during the situation of illness there are many aspects of an individual are get affected and
diminished which includes physical, emotional, intellectual, social and development.
Behaviour: It is considered as the thoughts, views and emotions of an individual which
they show in different conditions which arise in front of them during their life. It shows the
ability of an individual regarding deals with different actions in optimum or effective manner.
1.2 Perceptions of specific needs which are changed over the period of time
Perception is refers as the process which includes providence of the views and
impressions by the individual in respect of the things which are happen in the world (Burns and
Grove,2010). In the present report, perception is provided by the users of the health care
services regarding the change happen in health and care industry in relation to oversee of the
specific needs of individual over the period of time. The different factors which helps to
understood that how the perception of an individual is changes over the time is defined below:
Historical perspectives: It is observed that in past era of time there is less attention is
provided by the healthcare homes to address the specific needs and issues of person and services
are provided through adoption of common phenomenon.
Social and political developments: UK is developed nation which provides more
emphasis on the development of health care facilities for optimum care of individuals. In this
regard, many legislations and regulations are established which guides in providence of person
oriented functions. It becomes possible due to having stable society and political developments.
Medical and technological advances: In the current period of time, observed that many
developments are noticed in the technologies and medical equipments which changes the
perception of society towards person oriented medical services. For ex., MRI, Ultrasound, PET
scanners, ECG etc (Osterwalder and Pigneur, 2010).
1.3 Evaluation of the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture over services
There are many factors which improves the ability of the health care industry is to
provide the services according to the specific needs of individuals includes legislations, social
policy, society and culture etc. As it is the duty of the healthcare homes is to address the
provisions of such legislations and society norms. The impact of various legislations over the
services is defined below:
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Disability Discrimination Act 2005: The provisions of this Act provides about that there
is no discrimination is made in between the patients suffering from any disabilities on the basis
of their gender, religion, culture etc. It helps to provide equal treatment to all the individuals of
society irrespective of their nature of disabilities and different aspects describe above.
The health and social care Act 2008: It is important Act provided by the UK
government which regulates different activities which are defined below:
 Effective health care to patients by National Health service trust
 Effective ambulance services for effective transportation of patients from one place to
another
 Effective healthcare to patients through primary care trust
The children Act 2004: It includes the effective provisions regarding welfare of
children's and education to ensure their optimum care to attain better results (De Mooij, 2013).
TASK 2
2.1 Evaluation of the care needs of individuals with specific needs
It is the duty of the healthcare organisations is to identify the different types of care needs
of individuals before designing of their approaches and strategies. This will provides the
opportunity to improve their internal strength and effectively accomplish their targets. The
various kind of care needs which are need to address while providing their activities by care-
homes are defined below:
 Physical care: This will includes the treatment of the patient which is suffering from any
kind of disease and physical impairment through application of medical approaches and
equipments. It includes the services which helps the patient to cure themselves from
problems and effectively perform their day to day functions (Fowler, 2010).
 Social care: It is refers as the social work which includes the functioning regarding
personal care, protection or social support services to the children's and adults while they
face any kind of risk related to illness, disability, age etc.
 Emotional care: This will includes the activities regarding building of effective bond
with their patients. Here, the staff members are required to provide the care services with
love and affection. It is necessary while deal with metal health patients
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2.2 Current systems to support individuals with specific needs
There are different systems which provides the support to the individuals regarding their
effective care through addressing their specific needs. The contribution of such different kind of
organisations and systems is understood from the points which are mentioned below:
 Statutory: This will includes such care organisations which are financed by the central
and state government. They also have the authority to borrow funds from government
organisations through statutory sources. For ex., NHS in UK is statutory organisation
which provides health care facilities in all over the world (Rosenberg, 2010).
 Voluntary: This includes the organisations which are performing their activities for the
befit of society and not for earning profits. This will includes local hospitals, clinical
commissioning groups and councils which contributes to provide expert facilities of
every kind to address person oriented issues.
2.3 Services which are available in UK
The different kind of services which are available in UK which helps to address the
issues of individuals with specific needs. The different kind of services which are present are
related to health, social care etc. Such different kind of services are defined below:
Health: It is observed there are many institutions are available in UK which provides
healthcare facilities. The major example of this is NHS which has different care homes at
different localities. It provides the services regarding care which ensures optimum health of
patients.
Social care: This will includes the activities which are provided for the benefit of society.
This will not only includes the activities regarding health but also related to education, transport,
poverty eradication, residential etc (Sekaran and Bougie, 2016).
 Education: Designing of education programmes for provides information about rights
 Residential: Provide homes for the poor people of society etc.
TASK 3
3.1 Approaches an interventions which provide support to individuals
There are predefined approaches and strategies that takes cares of individuals with
specific needs. If one person is suffering from multiple disorders then they needs special
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attention to get ride out of the problem. For an example, the person has hearing and vision
disorder then they will affect on time to time. They need critical care of through various
approaches guardianship, empowerment, self – help, direction, shared responsibilities and
informed choice. Self help aid to support an individual as the person can arranges their
surroundings so that they can help themselves to get the things. Empowerment helps in
developing the capabilities of an individual for taking decision making selections. Interventions
can be understood as a combination or groups of strategies used for bringing the change in the
behaviour and to enhance the status of society (Locke and Bailey, 2013). It includes drug
therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy which used in attempt to active neurons that can make
alive the senses.
3.2 Effectiveness of the intervention strategies
Intervention strategies used for the patient eyes upon amending the condition rather than
focusing on permanent cure. Though a person who has vision impairment could not be be alone
cured by this therapy but still involves the individual in activities through giving strengthen to
the mental condition that deals with it. Along with the therapy timely diagnoses will give a better
direction towards the treatment. This will give a better view to use the techniques which use to
reduce the problem of weak eyesight. On the other point of view, if a person has a cancer then
the pharmaceutical interventions can help them to reduce the risk of cancer because early
detection for disease will hep to manage the risk to minimize the problem issue.
3.3 Potential impact of emerging developments for support of individuals
There are various emerging developments or technologies like Linear Accelerators,
Image Guided Radiation Therapy, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, Three-Dimensional
conformal Radiation Therapy and High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy. These technologies
helps to diagnose the disease and also treats as remedy like in cancer radiation therapy aid to
treat an individual. So that the person can live a life win effective manner with the disease but
less fear to die (Kietzmann and et. al., 2011). Medical technologies are giving best to the world
as the tumour patients are getting the treatment in effective manner. The doctor needs to locate
the tumour before start the radiation therapy so that the treatment would give some better results
to the patients.
There are some treatments a few treatments are available for dementia patients and that's
why their families are also get apart from them. But in emerging medical technology there are
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some treatment taking place which are used to experimented on these patients and therefore, the
are needed to give special care as they has challenging behaviour.
TASK 4
4.1 Different concepts of challenging behaviour
There are many aspects which are need to study for understanding the behaviour of an
individual. This will provides the opportunity that existing behaviour of user or individual is
challenging or not. The different concepts which are needed to oversee to improve their
knowledge regarding challenging behaviour is defined below:
Learning disabilities: Learning is the important aspect which shows the behaviour and
ability of individual to grab the new things. The learning disability shows the inability of an
individual about learning and understanding of new techniques and technologies as per change in
time (Du, Bhattacharya and Sen, 2010).
Physical disabilities: This will refers as the situation of limitation over the individuals
physical functioning, mobility, stamina etc. This will also includes about respiratory orders,
blindness, epilepsy, sleep disorders etc. This will have adverse impact upon the physical strength
of an individual.
Ill health: It is the situation which includes the suffering of an individual from any
problems which cause physical and mental illness. It is the when the individual feel unhealthy
and totally fit to provide functions in normal manner. Physical illness includes health problems
such as diabetes, asthma, arthritis or cancer. If such disease are chronic in nature then they
cannot be cured. Mental illness is referred as the disease which are related to brain. It shows the
problem in the areas of thoughts, emotional regulations and behaviour which reflects lack of
functioning.
4.2 Impact of challenging behaviour upon health and social care organisation
It is observed that there is huge impact of the challenging behaviours upon the working of
health and social care organisations. There are different kind of challenges are faced in the
behaviour of patients like learning disabilities, ill health and physical disabilities etc. All these
challenges have their own significant impact which can be understood from the points described
below:
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Learning disabilities: If the healthcare home is deal with the patients which are
suffering from learning disabilities then they have to provide more personalised care for proper
medication time to time. So, in this regard, care-homes are required to appoint different staff and
nurses which takes care of such kind of patients (Tomlinson, 2014).
Physical disabilities: It is the duty of the care home is provide the different treatment to
the patient which are suffering from any kind of physical disabilities. Such disabilities includes
the patients which are handicapped, blindness etc. For handicapped people need to provide
personal attendants and establishment of ramps for their easy entrance to care-homes.
4.3 Strategies which helps to work with challenging behaviours
There are many strategies which contributes their effort and provides the opportunity to
the health and social care organisations is to effectively work with the different challenging
behaviours which are faced while providing their functions. The different strategies which helps
to improve their strength of healthcare organisation in providence of their effectively includes
communication, clear goals, rewards and sanctions, medication etc. The contribution of such
different strategies in improvement of the working is understood from the following pints which
are defined below:
Communication: Building effective communication with different patients in care home
provides the opportunity is to understood their issues in proper manner regarding which they can
adopt person oriented approaches (Tomlinson, 2014). This will also contributes in the
development of learning abilities.
Clear goals: It is important for healthcare homes is to set clear goals and targets which
guides the staff members is to perform their work with efficiency. This will removes the situation
of confusion which reduces the amount of future risks and mistakes.
CONCLUSION
The above report is about the understanding of specific needs of individual as there are
various kinds of disease and disorders. Every individual has different kinds of symptoms and
behaviour, so the report covers the understanding of these kinds of patients.
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