Impact and Support: Healthcare for Individuals Facing Life Events

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of providing support to individuals navigating significant life events, such as bereavement, analyzing the impact on individuals of different ages and stages, and their families, friends, and social networks. It explores the roles of various external voluntary and statutory agencies in offering support, alongside the specific contributions of healthcare and care assistants within a broader support team. The report further examines the relationship between organizational policies and the practical support available in health and care settings, emphasizing the importance of a coordinated approach. Through case studies, the report illustrates the practical application of support, highlighting the interplay between individual needs, social networks, and the interventions of healthcare professionals and support organizations.

Supportive individual
through significant life
event

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Discuss the impact of expected and unexpected significant life events on individuals at
different ages and stages..............................................................................................................3
P2 Discuss the impact of different significant life events on the individual’s family, friends
and wider social networks...........................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Different external voluntary and statutory agencies that support individuals during their life
events...........................................................................................................................................5
P4 Discuss the role of the healthcare or care assistant in providing support to individuals as a
part of a wider team of support services......................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P5 Analyse the relationship between organisational policies and the practical support available
in health and care settings to different individuals experiencing significant life events.............7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P6 Support to an individual and their social network and significant life event.........................8
P7 support an individual and their social networks affected by significant life events...............9
Several types of support is provided and obligation is deliver by the social group or network.. 9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The concept of supportive significant life event is a study about individuals who are facing
the significant life event after losing their loved ones and or by their personal belongings.
All these suffers are termed as the bereavement. This essay is about to prospect the society
for individuals to pay attention towards them in order to cope up the for such misfortune that
are faced be them. This varies from person to person and enhance the feeling of grief in
them. In this report there two cases are mentioned that in which individuals are losing their
loved ones. In first case Jane has passed away in 84 years old, who was leaving in the small
sheltered house with Sue. They are engaged in various outdoor activities such as gardening
and talking with others. In the other case Sandra lost her husband and face the grief. In this
report various impacts of life events at different ages and on family, friends are being
discussed. Different external voluntary and agencies that support individuals are being
covered in this project report. At the last part reflection of individuals suffering from their
life event is covered.
TASK 1
P1 Discuss the impact of expected and unexpected significant life events on individuals at
different ages and stages
Individuals who face very hard time and suffering through deep pain or some tough moments
due to losing some one special or some special thing, who is lovable for them. All these
individuals are known as the Bereavement. It is also termed as individuals facing life events.
Each and every misfortune that is faced by the person that make numeric changes in the mood of
that individual as the particular condition. In the case of Jane and Sundra both are facing
different life events suffered from that deeply (Bellet, Neimeyer, and Berman, 2018). These life
events affect them in various manner and leave the impact on their lives. There are various
negative impacts on the life of human being of these life events such as depression, stress as well
as grief. When someone face these bereavement and problems in their life different changes are
measured in their physical body, mental health as well as affect them socially. Some of impacts
are discussed below:

Physical impacts: A feeling of pain and grief leave great impact on the physical body of
the Jane and Sundra who are facing such pain to loss husband. The pain impact on the physical
health of these ladies and it is not easy for them to overcome the pain early. Because of pain the
individual is not able to take enough sleep. It is required to take medical treatment in that
situation in order to avoid anxiety and stress.
Social impact: Comparatively less changes are happened in the life of bereavement’s life, but it
is very important to collect all changes that are take place because of a specific life event and
make efforts to improve them with having proper support (Cvetković,2020). To the Sundra and
Jane, their life event affects them but proper support of family, friends and loved one help them
to cope-up with all these grief and problems.
Bereavement-act as Rollercoaster: An emotional and unconditional feelings are raised in
the individual that face all the problems and they act like a rollercoaster because of these motions
are getting changed due to changes in the various circumstances. In the case of Sundra and Jane,
they become the numb and mourns, like Sundra do not want to accept the death of her husband
and behave accordingly. In such situation individual do not know how to react or they become
still. In some situation they act as a numb, as not show any type of emotions by weeping. In the
first case the Jane do not react towards her decease and enjoy the life events on the other hand
Sundra do not accept the death of her husband that affects her whole life.
P2 Discuss the impact of different significant life events on the individual’s family, friends and
wider social networks
Bereavement is a problem for an individual and is treated differently by family, friends,
their loved one along with society. When a person loses their loved one, they get moral support
only by their family member. This moral support is work only when there are good bonding and
communication between members of family along with sharing of positive vibes. When an
individual is affected through life event, family members also plays important roles in same way
as doctors and nurse for social care (Fiteni, 2017). There can be a problem with individual who
does not get support from their family members in this type of situation. In context of cases
families and friends support Jane and Sundra to cope up with their grief, drive their attention
towards different things. There are
different type for support system by different group provided to Bereavement which are as
follows:

Associates or Sympathetic: Different type of people are involved to provide support to
bereavement in order to overcome from sad emotion. They act like an association which provide
helps to bereavement and convince them for involvement in other work with intention of
improvement in them. Sympathy also plays role for association which helps to overcome from
mourns.
Communal media: It is a platform for communication with which friends and family
members can exchange their views and emotions to help individual who is facing suffering and
mourns.
Child Bereavement UK: It is a type of organisation which provide support to professional
and family when family suffer from death of child (Ironson,2018). It also provides support to
child whenbereaved from loss of live from someone important.
Support group:
Love of friends and family: Friends and family members are those who are always with
an individual whether it is about happiness or sab moments. In this case,
Self-confidence: Self-confidence of a person also motivate them to overcome from this
type of situation which helps them to cope-up them from suffering and torture. In both cases
Support group: Support group are those group provide mora support to a person which
helps to become emotionally strong. In both cases, their family, friends and loved ones help to
overcome their grief by engaging them in other activities and provide them spiritual support to
change their attitude positively towards life.
TASK 2
P3 Different external voluntary and statutory agencies that support individuals during their life
events
There are various agencies such as external voluntary and statutory agencies that support
the individual, provide the counselling and moral support to handle the pain and shift their focus
on the life. In the case of Jane and Sundra various agencies support them as well as provide
financial or morale support. These agencies are discussed below:
National Association of Widows: This organisation is developed by widowed to provide
support to widowed including man and woman. The object of this organisation is to provide
support, care and friendship to those women and men who are suffered from bereavement

because they lost life of their partners (Luo,2020). This support and helps is provided by those
people who understand this pain like other widowers and widows.
Fund and Paul’s place: This organisation provide support to those who are adult and in
age between 18 to 30 years. This organisation provide care as a family member to those who are
suffering from pain of bereavement, illness, diagnosing of threating of life. It also covers cost of
break along with self-catering service.
Compassionate friends: It is another type of organisation which provide support,
sympathy to bereaved parent as well as their family members to helps to overcome from pain of
loss of child. Along with support, they also provide information and advice to other friends and
relatives who can helps to family in this sad time.
Curse Bereavement Care: It is one of organisation which provide support to adult as
well as children in UK. It helps in providing support to anyone who is suffering from
bereavement through telephone line. This organisation has online website which contain contact
information for local branches.
CRY: CRY stands for cardiac risk include which provide support to bereaved who suffer
from death of young member and also include network of surgery support for people of young
age who is in cardiac condition. This organisation provides screen of heart, CG programme and
provide funds for purpose of centre cardiology.
P4 Discuss the role of the healthcare or care assistant in providing support to individuals as a part
of a wider team of support services
Different types of support and obligations are provided by the healthcare department or by the
health care assistant or by the system in order to keep satisfaction in mind that individuals get
experience of life events (Mikolai, and Lyons-Amos, 2017). These department or groups adopt
different type of corporative methods in order to resolve various problems. The main objective of
these associations is to provide the consistent administrations to that individuals who are facing
various life events as well as providing them financial support. various supports are described
below:
Physical support: Health care and care assistant identify various effective strategies that
are facilitates the individual to act as bereavement with having proper care and follow different
approaches that fits the different age groups such as teenagers and old aged individuals. In this
case Subdra who lost her husband requires therapies in order to get physical support.

Social care: In this social care all systems are coordinated that provide support to various
social groups as well as provide them proper care. In the case Jane and Sundra are getting
emotionally and socially weak and both need support to get again stable.
Psychological support: In this support system health care provides various counselling
sessions in order to recover from the anxiety and stress. In the respective case Sundra get the
counselling sessions to make herself psychologically strong. These therapies help her to recover
from the unforgettable grief and pain.
Spiritual support: It provides the moral as well as spiritual support to the individual who
are facing various significant life events, convinces them to think positively towards life and
communicate with every one effectively (Peek,2018). It facilitates the people to trust others and
share their point of view in order to decrease their pain. In the both cases Jane and Sundra take
counselling, meditation and take their attention toward other things like gardening and talking to
others.
TASK 3
P5 Analyse the relationship between organisational policies and the practical support available in
health and care settings to different individuals experiencing significant life events
Various organisational policies support the to heath and care setting in the different individuals
in experiencing the respective specific life events. Effectiveness of organisational policies as
well as procedure construction by the official members that leave the impact on the people to
suffer them from various significant life events. Such associations and organisations help the

individuals to move ahead by identifying these officials that guarantee about these respective
associations will provide the care to these individuals. A special norm is introduced in the 2014
that is related to the various legislations that working towards the supporting individuals. The
health and care departments have follows the principal and the guidelines that are mentioned in
the organisational policies. Respective policies are applied for the individuals that are come in
the contact of service provider and for the service users. There is care is provided to the Janes
and Sundra after occurring these life events with them. There are families of bereavements take
care from various organisations and various policies and procedures are also recommended by
them in order to overcome these griefs (Perry,2020). It also provides to the old age people
because their they have short sentiments and they lose their emotions very quickly. They ensure
to provide wide background support to each level of their like in order to face pain. So, these
organisation policies build effective relationship with the respective health care setting in order
to take experience from various different individuals who are facing significant life events.
TASK 4
P6 Support to an individual and their social network and significant life event
The individual faces lots of hardship in its life. He has to go through lots of pain and
toughest situation. When a person lose someone special or loveable person, such hard
situation. Everyone has to tackle these toughest phases in life. If individual phase any
misfortune this will impact the behaviour of the person (Reiland, 2017). Life event has great
impact on the person behaviour. I believed that mood swings of individual is totally depend on
the lifeevent. If anything wrong happen to the individual, it definitely affect the situation and
perception of individual. The influence of life event in respect of negativity leads towards
depression, grief, tension etc. I believe that after suffering lots of pain in life person or
individual also started facing physical problems in life. Most of the health issues people
faces due to depression. This will leads towards more sleepiness in individual due to
negative life event. They feel tensed, lack of motivation, low energy, slow etc.
When individual feel pain in life this will influence whole physical
transformation. Lots of health issues will face by individual. They need a proper medical
treatment. Individual can face fatigue, less sleep, joint pain, mussels pain etc. A proper
support and assistance required to cure such individual. Due to unexpected situation they

feel anxiety and stress. Only love of family and friends can overcome the pain. This help
individual to come out of the sorrow and pain. Most of the emotional situation faces by the
individual. These life events are the part of life that every individual have to face. I
personally believe that love and support can aid individual to overcome from sorrow and
pain.
Bereavement – It consist of feeling and emotions that individual faces in lots of different life
event. If person feel anything bad it will reflect in his behaviour. The person or individual
emotions depend on different life situations (van Houten, Kraaykamp, and Breedveld, 2017).
Hard feeling and emotions can pass away as the time faded away. I believe individual could not
hide his or her feeling from others it will definitely reflect in his or her behaviour.
Social impact- it involves less chance that impact the life event of individual behaviour, built
also collects lots of moments and life event that is attached to the person life (Yıldız, Beşirog̃lu,
and Karakılıç, 2019). Only lovesocial, affection can uplift the person from its sorrow and pain
(Roos, 2018). Individual has to deal with lots of challenges in its life and each chapter is learning
lesson for him or her. Social circular social group impact the person life at very huge level.
P7 support an individual and their social networks affected by significant life events
Several types of support is provided and obligation is deliver by the social group or network.
Such group involves and implement cooperative ways to handle many conflicts in individual
life. The ultimate aim of these social network is to manage and solve conflict of individual
life events and provide some benefit and advantage (Stark, 2018). There are several support
groups that upgrade life of individual. It integrates the ability of person so that they deal with
hardest situation of life. The person facing physical disability feels disperse and want to kill
themselves. They don’t want to live their life as full enjoyment. These types of people need
lots of support and love, care to brings more motivation and positive aspect in their life.
Physical support will upgrade and aid individual to overcome from pain.
Social care- it involves proper care and support that is needed by the person who has facing
negative life event. Coordination and enhancement in social group will help individual to
upgrade its life events.
Stress and depression cause many health diseases to the individual, they need a
appropriate psychological support to manage and handle all the pains of his negative life event.
Each individual has to face lots of hurdles in his life only these types of

support and care can rescue their life.
The support of spiritual help individual to overcome from his negativity. I personally
believe that only yoga and meditation helps individual a lot. These are the biggest
support system of individual to solve many big problems in life (Taylor, 2018). This will bring
positivity and effective communication with others that uplift the life of individual. This will turn
out in best result. This enhance the ability of individual to cope and deal with difficult situation
in his life. Yoga and meditation help individual to being in relaxed situation. I personally
believe that these are the best therapist or remedy to overcome from pain and sorrow. Only
care will motivate or push the person to forget negative life event. These are the hardest
thing that individual has to face in his life event.
CONCLUSION
Individual has to tackle lots of hurdles in his life. This in the part of life event that every
individual has to manage. Positive and negative event are the part of life. Sometimes people
have to face negativity through unexpected events. The negative life event has great
influence on the person life. Health and social life of person also gets affected by these life
event. Most of the individual faces lots of health issues due to lots of tension and depression.
The negative life impact is shown in the behaviour of individual, this can not be hidden by
individual. Lots of negativity cause lots of anxiety and depression. This can be rectifed or
resolve by adopting yoga and meditation. Everyone should do yoga and meditation to reduce
the level of tension. These are the best remedy to reduce the level of stress and depression.
This negative event of life can be resolve or reduce by support of social care, physical,
spiritual, psychological support. These help to solve lots of negativity in the life events. This
will motivate and support individual to push its limit to bear lots of pain and negative
unexpected situation of life.

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