Examining the Impact of Dementia on UK Service Users and Providers

This report provides an overview of dementia as a significant health and social care issue in the UK, focusing on its impact on both service users and service providers. It highlights the increasing prevalence of dementia, particularly among older adults, and its effects on memory, daily activities, and communication. The report discusses the emotional, psychological, and financial challenges faced by individuals with dementia, as well as the difficulties encountered by their families and caregivers. It also addresses the strain on service providers, including the challenges of managing patients with memory loss, mood swings, and aggression. The report emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis and systematic care to mitigate the consequences of dementia and concludes by underscoring the essential role of health and social care services in supporting those affected by this condition. The report references several academic articles and publications to support its analysis and conclusions.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ISSUE

INTRODUCTION
 Health and social care refer as the services that are provided by
the social group to whom who are needed it most.
 It involves the treatment, control and prevention method against
any illness or disability from which the victim is suffering.
 There are many issues regarding health and social care as people
are suffering from the serious issues that need to be encountered
by the health professional in order to treat them.
 In UK Dementia issue is most common study as analysed that
one in the 14 people who are of older age suffers from this issue.

INTRODUCTION TO DEMENTIA HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE ISSUE
 Dementia refer as the loss of memory which cause many challenges for the person who are suffering from it.
 People with dementia are nit able to solve the problems rapidly as they are not able to remembers the things for, this cause affects
their daily activities.
 Research have been showed that around 850,000 people in the UK are suffering from the dementia issue and this condition is
rapidly affecting the 1 in 6 people on daily basis.
 People who are at the age of 65 are majorly seen as sufferer of this disease, it is also estimated that this graph for the UK for
dementia patient will increase more than one million by the end of 2025 year.
 Early sign which shows the person with dementia are memory changes, it is the common cause which the dementia people phase
as they started loosing their memory which also include the short term memory loss.
 They found difficult to adapt something, it can be seen as the forgot their daily scheduled items and also struggled to remember
them.
 People with this also found difficulty to communicate with others as they are not able to express their own thoughts and feelings
which disturbs them mentally.

Impact of Dementia on service user and service
provider in UK
 A dementia is a disease which causes a damage and change in the brain of
a human body and impacts the brain cells widely.
 In UK, ageing the population increases the risk of diseases dementia which
has been mostly affected to the older age group of people which is a major
health concern.
 In the research it has been analysed that in today world the disease
dementia has impacted the number of people including the service users
and providers as well.
 It is a range and combination of different emotions like anger, shock, fear
and disbelief from which a human creature is not able to adjust the feelings
and may feel scared and little afraid about the future time.

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 The depressions and anxiety is a confirmation diagnoses which reflects the dementia in a person.
 A service user who is affected by the Dementia experiences changes in their emotional activities and also in
behaviour and does not have a control on their feelings and not able to understand the responses they are doing.
 From last two decades, the UK country has implemented the change and control in health and social
care services and supporting the people to net get affected by the dementia and setting a definite amount of care in
the living community.

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 In year 2015, it has been estimated that there will be 851,000 were
impacted by the dementia in the country UK and also forecasted
that it can increase its spreading number over 2 million by 2051.
 With the increase and rise of dementia in the society it is also
accelerating the issues in the career future of people and providing
the disadvantages.
 The UK government is also building an ideology and strategy
where they are makings progress in overcoming this issue and
committed an appropriate resource for the national dementia in
England and Northern Ireland.
 The dementia has now become a challenge for the UK people and
service provider to overcome this disease in definite order from
which they can be able to protect the users accordingly.
 Dementia is also known as Alzheimer which is rising day by day
and creating an issue for aged people of the UK country.

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 To deal with this disease is difficult as its changes and damaging the
brain cells from which the service users are not able to react
emotionally according to the situation.
 In some cases, due to this impact of dementia the service user often
loss their memory or ability to think which causes different obstacles.
 It also makes the service user to feel unconfident and insecure and not
even trust their own decisions and judgements.
 The service user experiences different emotions and also construct a
feeling that they are not being treated similar rather than another
people and started feeling negative thoughts and affects themselves in
these situations. A service user who is getting affected by the
Alzheimer's disease started affected indirectly by self-esteemed the
areas of its own life.

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 A person started losing its thinking ability and obtains the issues
financially, employability and even causes the negative impact the
relationships.
 This health issues makes the service user's life more stressful and leads
with uneven emotions and feelings which is not understood by themselves.
 As, the increase of the disease in UK, the service user gradually lose their
independence and have to become more dependent on the care and support
by other family members.
 In this disease, the service user has to be undertaken and focused more by
the people to maintain their dignity and also helps them to enhance their
confidence.
 Sometimes, the service user gets irritated by the pampering and caring of
the people around them and construct a feeling of running from them and
get escaped where they are not judged and supported by other and can live
the life with independence.

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 The safety concerns have increased and requires to make them feel healthy and well so that they will not be able
to depend and rely on any another person.
 Damage to brain cells impacts the person or service user to not take any definite decisions even for themselves as
their mental power and capacity is not at appropriate position and unable to make a clear the decision.
 But if a person wants to collect and understand the service user ideology and thoughts they can involve the user in
their interested topics and objective and can make them feel comfortable from which can settle the decision
accordingly.
 In addition, the dementia also impacts the service providers also in the definite manner through different areas.

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 Dementia sufferer required a systematic care otherwise it
will be difficult for them to survive, it is seen that people
with this can't hold the information, they usually face the
problem regarding mood as they sudden changes their
behaviour.
 It is the common problem that found in the people who
are above 60, as they started loosing their memory which
affects their daily working ability.
 There are many cases which implies that dementia people
often face harsh behaviour from their family members as
some families left the patient in care home and do not
focus on their well beings.

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 Psychological and emotional affect of dementia:
 Dementia people face the frequent changes in emotional responses because of few control over the feelings. It also causes
the people to face the insecurity and low confidence that disturbs them. As they started loosing their focus and may not be
able to trust their own statement and decision. Family of the dementia victim people also suffers the most as it is
generally found that people with this issue required a extra attention and care of other, it will affect other members as
they might feel insecure and also feel neglected. Caregiver also account the problem regarding physical and mental health
problem of the patient.
 Service provider who work for the community to provide the treatment so that person with issue can deal with their issue
and move forward in their life.
 Care provider supports the patient with emotionally as they prepare the plan for them so that they can follow the chart to
reduce the complexity of the disease.
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 Service provider faces major challenge to manage the dementia
people, as it is common for the patient to forgot about
everything, sometimes they do not recognize the face or
identity of the care providers.
 Social service provider feel more pressure and tension to
manage the case of dementia people as compared to other care
provider who are looking into the other health issue case.
 It is found that social care provider faces the major problem
regarding the diagnosis, as most often they seen that patient
keep on avoiding taking the diagnosis also if they have received
the whole medication process but due to their illness they are
not able to acknowledged it.