Safeguarding in Practice: Care Act 2014 and COPD Patient Intervention

This report focuses on safeguarding practices for a patient, Joyce, suffering from COPD and living alone. It explores the application of care interventions, including making safeguarding personal and family group conferences, in accordance with the Care Act 2014. The report emphasizes the importance of person-centered approaches, addressing Joyce's wishes to remain at home while ensuring her safety and well-being. It highlights the role of healthcare professionals in navigating challenges and promoting patient autonomy. The conclusion summarizes the interventions used to enhance the patient's quality of life and safety, underscoring the importance of these approaches in safeguarding vulnerable individuals. The report also references relevant literature, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Safe guarding in
practice

Table of content
• Introduction
• Main body
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
• Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of an
individual suffering from any type of disease and protect them from
harm.
• In this the protection can be provided to those who have suffered
from abuse or are going through any type of physical or
psychological illness.
• Present report will lay emphasis on Joyce who is been suffering from
COPD and she also lives alone. Present report will lay emphasis on
the care intervention used for this situation. It will also lay focus on
reason for using this intervention.

Eligibility of support
• She is eligible as she is living alone and also there are
chances abuse take place.
• Making safeguarding personal: Making Safeguarding
Personal means it should be person-led and outcome-focused.
• In this person centered safeguarding approach is been used.
In this intervention Joyce will be involved and will be
communicated the benefits of getting to a sheltered housing
and too safely (Cooper and Bruin, 2017).

Abuse taking place
• For the present situation of Joyce the intervention
which has been used are making safeguarding personal
and also making use of family group conferences.
• These two interventions are been selected as they are
based on relevant legislations which is Care act, 2014
(Romeo and et.al., 2017).
• These interventions are been used to provided
protection to patient who has been suffering from
COPD and also Joyce do not want to move out of his
house. Both the interventions will assist patient in
enhancing their quality of life.

Actions that has been taken
• The Care Act, 2014 is the act given by parliament of United
Kingdom in which local authorities are been provided with the
responsibility to assess anyone who is in need of care and
support.
• The authorities needs to be engaged in analyzing the needs and
demands of persons who is been suffering in order to improve
their quality of life, like for example in the present case
situation (Feldon, 2017).

The wishes of Joyce
• Joyce has the wish do not move out of the house and she
also do not need any carerr
• There can be various problems which can be faced by
health care professionals when they are working in this
way.
• The user led approach focuses on that barriers must be
removed and also there must be full participants by its
constituents.
• In making safeguarding personal the approach make use of
this could be done to people rather than done with them. In
this case the professionals can be involved in doing what
they want and not with the patient. This situation can make
the condition of patient more miserable (Stanley, 2016).

CONCLUSION
• From the above study it has been summarized that patient has been suffering
from dementia and do not want to leave his home even when the disease is
making progress.
• It has also been analyzed that there had been three time breakdown in his
house by the social workers. There has been varies interventions which has
been used in order to provide protection to patient.
• In making safe guarding personal Patient has been made understand that how
these actions are been taken for their personal benefit, well-being and safety. It
has also been analyzed that these interventions have been used in order to
enhance the quality of life of patients and also their well-being.

REFERENCES
• Feldon, P., 2017. The Social Worker's Guide to the Care Act
2014. Critical Publishing.
• Cooper, A. and Bruin, C., 2017. Adult safeguarding and the
Care Act (2014)–the impacts on partnerships and practice. The
Journal of Adult Protection.
• Romeo, L. and et.al., 2017. Safeguarding Adults under the
Care Act 2014: Understanding Good Practice. Jessica Kingsley
Publishers.
• Stanley, T., 2016. A practice framework to support the Care
Act 2014. The Journal of Adult Protection.

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