Analysis of Specific Needs in Health and Social Care: A Report

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Understanding Specific Needs in Health and
Social Care

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................2
1.1 Analyse concepts of health, disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health
and social care services (M3)......................................................................................................2
1.2 Assess how perceptions of specific needs have changed over time......................................3
1.3 Analyse the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the ways that
services are made available for individuals with specific needs(D3)..........................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Analyse the care needs of individuals with specific needs(M1)............................................5
2.2 Explain current systems for supporting individuals with specific needs(D3).......................7
2.3 Evaluate the services available in a chosen locality for individuals with specific needs(D1)
.....................................................................................................................................................8
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Explain the approaches and interventions available to support individuals with specific
needs............................................................................................................................................9
3.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of intervention strategies for an individual with specific need(s)
...................................................................................................................................................10
3.3 Discuss the potential impact of emerging developments on support for individuals with
specific needs.............................................................................................................................11
LO4................................................................................................................................................12
4.1. Explain different concepts of challenging behavior...........................................................12
4.2.Describe the potential impact of challenging behaviour on health and social care
organizations..............................................................................................................................12
4.3. Analyze strategies for working with challenging behaviours associated with specific
needs..........................................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14

References......................................................................................................................................15

Introduction
The Industry of health and social care involves various supportive deeds and part of care. The
report focus on understanding objectives associated with health and social care. Providing
support and care to a people with disabilities or with special needs are considered as significant
part and parcel of health and social care industry. When a person is impaired or disable then they
are incapable of performing various routine activities or even fail to take care of themselves. In
the current report, discussion is made regarding perception and definition of health care along
with assessment and analysis different needs of people. Report further will be discussing about
the current systems offering services to patients. Moreover, report also emphases on different
approaches and intervention of health care along with various strategies that can be applied for
working with challenging behaviour related to various specific needs.
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LO1
1.1 Analyze concepts of health, disability, illness and behavior in relation to users of health and
social care services (M3).
World Health Organization has stated that health is something that sums up the state of total
mental and physical well being of an individual (World Health Organization, 2015). Health is
common definition is defined as a state in which a person has no disease and is stable in terms of
health. Healthy is a term that is used for an individual which is away from infection and
effectively maintaining self hygiene for avoiding future illness. Disability is a term that is used
for describing physical or mental condition of an individually, restricting or not allowing him to
perform various activities normally.
Health issues or illness can be either temporary or permanent restricting a person from doing
normal works or activities. Illness is also referred as which is impacts upon mind and body of a
person. Health problem and issues is a situation where an individual identifies that he is under
substantial or psychological state make him suffer.
On the other hand, behavior is referred to a situation in which a person depicts a conduct and
reacts according to situation (World Health Organization, 2016). ). Behavior is effective in
adding particular error in health. On the basis of social concepts, the behavioral result
additionally can serve to inspect the consequence. The provider of healthcare service providers
can implement different strategies for dealing with patient with behavioral issues.
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1.2 Assess how perceptions of specific needs have changed over time
The time is changing so are the perception of workers working in the sector of health and social
care. There was an era where patients and their need were not given any importance and social
service provider were careless regarding the records of the patients. The same can be found in
case of Tom. He was a 43 year old man with a brain injury from car crash that has eventually
made him insomniac and chronic pain making him prone habitual intoxication.
Tom was need of different care like proper medication, clean environment, drugs and alcohol
free environment for enhancing his mental health with morale support. Tom was earlier taken
cared by some social service but due to him being chaotic and complaint less low response was
provided (Sullivan, and Skelcher, 2017). Tom was them allowed to leave with his family but due
to chronic pain and insomnia he was found disturbed mentally
Government of different countries are working hard to support mentally unstable people.
Together with that strict regulations are effectively complied for non- discrimination. There are
various changes for earlier accountability considering any injury or addiction that was not
observed for Tom. If proper care and medication was offered to Mr Tom with consult of the
family with prior knowledge of his past Mr Tom could have been saved.
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1.3 Analyse the impact of legislation, social policy, society and culture on the ways that services
are made available for individuals with specific needs(D3)
The treatment offered to the people with mental and physical disabilities is influenced by various
societal norms and legislation. The government has designed a range of acts, policies and
regularities particularly for special people having specific requirement. There are acts like
Impairment and Equality Act of 2010 for supporting people with physical defect or abnormalities
whereas, for supporting individual with mental sickness government has effective formulated
Mental Wellness Act, 2007. With the encouragement of Disability discrimination act 1995, every
person living in a society must be treated equally and any kind of discrimination will not be
entertained made on the basis of disabilityhis acts and regulations are very effective in offering
security and protection to people suffering from disability(Manners, 2017).
Organisation that are associated with offering services related to Health and social care are abide
by the laws and rule initiated by the government and other central administrative department for
offering secure, healthy life styles along with specific treatment, facilities and medical aid to
differently able people. Due to the changing beliefs and mindset of the people leaving in the
society various changes have effectively been observer within people as well as society entirely.
People are part of society and are involving largely with social activities like charity and also
offer voluntary services and assistance for the uplifting the society. Even the cultural aspects in
terms of HSC have significantly changed (Giger, 2016). Law and legislation supported that
every people even belonging to different culture or religion will be treated equally for offering
service and medical assistance.
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LO2
2.1 Analyse the care needs of individuals with specific needs (M1)
As per the Maslow’s need Model every individual has some specific required that can be
represented in hierarchal order. For analysis the care need of individual the same model can be
implemented effectively:
Physiological needs: This is considers as the basic needs of any individual. This need includes
food, cloth, sleep and shelter, etc. if these needs are not fulfilled then a person will centre only on
staying alive.
Security needs: this need for a person mean having a shelter and to remain secure from any kind
of harm (DePoy, and Gitlin, 2015).
Social needs: The third is social need, for humans who are considered as social animal need of
being a part of the society also matters. Social needs include fellowship, love and affection.
However it is the least prior needs and efforts are offered to achieve this need after attaining
physiological and security needs.
For a person like Tom who is suffering from mental illness along with issues of drug addiction.
The person fails to express his feeling and is unable to cope with various environments. Tom due
to his brain injury faced various complex health issues including insomnia, depression and
habitual intoxication (Sullivan, and Skelcher, 2017). He eventually has become incapable of
taking proper decision in life.
Some of the issues faced by people along with specific need of patient with mental illness are
discussed below:
Safety& security: For a person like Tom, he need a safe and secure residential place for offering
comfortable living.
Interaction: when a person is suffering from depression he must be handled carefully and must
be offered with proper interaction. Trust will be helpful for understanding the actually needs and
issues of the patients.
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Health: The patient that are insomniac, drug addict and depressed must be offered with
continuous and complete health services. They need attention and monitoring along with
rehabilitation programs, meditation and medical experts for assisting them to overcome their
current situation.
Human rights: The person with mental illness must be offered with equal Human rights. In any
case or circumstances his or her right must not be humiliated by any one. This human right
safeguards the wellbeing of the patients by protecting them from any kind of inequality or
discrimination.
Financial support: A patient with mental sickness must be financially supported for getting
medical support and for fulfilling their domestic needs.
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2.2 Explain current systems for supporting individuals with specific needs(D3)
Various facilities are offered to patients with special needs. Case study of Mr. Tom is considered,
who is a depressed person with addiction towards drugs and alcohol to numb his chronic pain
there are different private and public organization operating around UK and globally for
supporting such people for supporting their rehabilitation and to overcome depression and to
offer medical and financial support to encourage healthy living.
To understand the overall situation, the provided case showcases a person who needs care
formally and informally due to mental issues along with other addiction (Sheehan et al2015).
There is various helpline number that offer immediate support to a person with depression. Tom
was also struggling with drugs addiction various services are offer under several Drug addiction
centre programs run by different organization having well structure service system for guiding
people in need. Rehabilitation centre not only offer treatment and therapy but also provides
consultancy for handling complex situations and to train them for keeping their mind stable in
composed situation. For financial support there are various insurance providers readily helpful
for supporting patients.
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2.3 Evaluate the services available in a chosen locality for individuals with specific needs (D1)
There are various centres for health and social care which are working to serve the people of UK
those are suffering from mental illness. These service providers are working both publicly and
privately to serve the people living in the society that are with special needs. NHS or National
Health Service one of the famous organizations in the public sector of UK operates under
government to offer support of different healthcare facilities at a very low costs which can be
afforded by all (Manners, 2017). NHS is effective in offering different day care centres to
support and take care of people with mental illness with a motive to uplift their living standard.
NHS also has some service that is related to mobility service for people living in local
communities and government.
The main negative points related to the day care centre is mainly related to lack of supervision
offered, ignorance shown by care workers, offered quality of services, stubbornness etc.
However, NHS has various positive aspects that is effective in supporting patient like availability
of services, reduced prices of services, cooperative GPs.
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LO3
3.1 Explain the approaches and interventions available to support individuals with specific needs
The approach and intervention is very important with respect to people with specific needs due
to disability, ill behavior and ill health condition. For health care professionals and service
provider understanding professional attributes and competencies is essential for treating the
patient well. In case of supporting a person with severe physical damage, the health care
professionals must identify, create implementation effective plans for effectively supporting and
taking care of the patient as per their needs and requirement (Mackelprang, and Salsgiver, 2016).
Moreover, for a person with ill health, necessary rises for identifying and assess particular health
issues and treatment must be offered accordingly considering various medical interventions.
For a patient with mentally illness, the services and care will be quite different. The service
provider is expected to understand patient’s perception and need for offering him or her most
suitable, friendly, pleasant and safe environment. Through these the morale of the patient will be
encouraged and more satisfactory support and care will be offered (Giger, 2016).The service
providers must also concentrate on developing effective communication with the patient.
Communication skills will be effective in identifying and understanding specific need of the
patients. Communication helps I developing the trust factor, which will help the patient to open
up regarding their concerns and issues to health care professionals.
Different legislative agencies and government agencies are offering and developing framework
along with guidelines for the services providers. This framework must be flexible for benefiting
the people with disabilities. The government has appointed various psychotherapists and helpline
number to support patients. Guardian ship is one of the important factors that are to be
considered for while forming advocacy. These interventions are effective in offering legal
support to patients by offering authorities advice and consultancies to enhance moral and
medical support
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