The Cherry Care Home: Supporting Significant Life Events Report

This report delves into the crucial topic of supporting individuals through significant life events, drawing on experiences within the Cherry Care Home. The report examines various scenarios, including mental health challenges, loss of loved ones, and the impact of traumatic events. It explores the effectiveness of the care home's policies and procedures, highlighting the roles of staff, social networks (family, friends, and religious communities), and external support systems (hospitals and domiciliary care). The report also analyzes the positive and negative aspects of these support structures, emphasizing the importance of emotional support, medication, and psychiatric sessions. Furthermore, it considers the impact of these events on residents, staff members, and the strategies employed to mitigate negative consequences and promote well-being. The report underscores the significance of comprehensive care and the need for proactive measures to assist individuals in navigating difficult life transitions.

Supporting
Significant Life
Events
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4

MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
A) effectiveness of The Cherry care home's company polices and procedure in supporting
polices.........................................................................................................................................6
B) Support could be provided by the specific social network....................................................7
C) External Sources Of Support For Individuals Experiencing..................................................7
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9
B) REFELECTION.....................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Life events are change in the situations such as getting married, and life events is the
part of Gurney people faces many problems in their life and this events can happen any lime of
the life. Some of them are positive life events and some of them are negative life events which
can impact on individuals family and their life.
This report concludes that social networks there were many events which were into
addressed and also decreased the quality of the centres. The social network of the centres. The
impact of the social groups also impacted the quality of the services to the patients. It is very
important for the family and the friends of the patient to be very positive around them so that
there is a positive vibe in the room and there are higher chances for the person to feel better. This
can be understood from the basic experience one has from life, and he must follow them so that
the people can recover faster from their illnesses.
MAIN BODY
LO1
Life events -
While working in cherry tree care home, I came across the incident where an individual
of around 50 years of age due to a severe trauma got mentally retarded and began to behave in an
abnormal way. The individual began to loose his memory and every day he was unable to
recognize even his friends and relatives. A time came when he completely lost his control and
forgot every relation and began to develop the an abrupt syndrome of mental (Bleidorn,
Hopwood and Lucas, 2018).
Another similar incident occurred a few months later after this incident where a woman
of around 60 years of age was missing her family. Her children left her in Cherry care home
helpless as they are unable to bear her expenses. This made her highly demotivated and she
began to miss her family. Due to this, she started developing depression and began to feel alone.
She used to sit alone at a corner ad cry feeling that no one is there to support her from whom she
can share her problems and fears.
The major event which was shocking was the case of a young couple who lost their
children in a car accident. Due to this, the couple began to feel isolated and thus was seen to
remain under depression. They used to feel the presence of their child around them and
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sometimes talk to their soul. This affected their mental health to a great extent and they began to
seek the support of drugs due to which their mental balance got distorted.
Impact of the events -
The impact of the first event was highly imperative on me as I began to associate the
feeling of memory loss with me that how will it affect me. In order to overcome this, I looked for
various emotional therapy along with medication which can treat the patient more quickly.
In the second event I began to feel the same with me as how children can leave their
parents when they need them the most. This scenario built a sympathy within my heart and shake
my mind to a great level. For overcoming this, I began to spend time with that women and began
to listen to her problems and feelings. Due to this, she began to feel happy and began to
overcome her fear (Bakker, Du and Derks, 2018).
The third event shake me from inside out and thus affected me to a great extent. The
couple who lost their child in the car accident took the support of drugs whose hallucination can
help them to meet the soul of their child. This was very frightening, and I began to realize that
how the life of parents changes due to the death of their kid and this made me to understand the
value of life as well as negative effects of drugs. For preventing this situation, I began to take the
couple to childcare home where they can feel the same connection with other children. Besides
this, I looked for various medication which can reduce the effect of drugs and heal them.
Staff members experience-
The Cherry care home's staff members have positively supported me in these life events.
They properly guided and supported me to medicated such mentally ill patients. They
significantly helped me in preparing various strategies and practices for letting these patients to
overcome this mental issues. Staff members had rendered approachable medication so that the
patients can be treated by me and could recover soon and we can give them new life back soon.
With the help of staff members I had given all these patients a new life and they can start their
new life ahead. They can enjoy their life and overcome the pains which is being faced by them. I
had also meet the old man's family and their child and let them know by which condition their
father is suffering and let them realise their mistake so that they realize their mistake and take
their father back to the home. At last they are convened and get back their father to home and
they all were happy and they started respecting their father. This all done with the staff members
had helped me for searching the details of their families and address so that I could reach them
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and get back old man to his family (Crawford, Thompson and Ashforth, 2019). I also had given
the new life to the couple by proper medication and dropping their drug habit so that they can
again start their new life. The staff member had guided me to give psychiatric sessions so that
they could overcome the problem of other world and started surviving in the real world. They
had further overcomes it and again adopted new child and started new happy life with their child.
Impact on resident and other staff members-
There has been very adverse impact on the staff members by the death. As they had faced
a major depression as they had gain a huge attachment with patients at care home but they
somehow lack in receiving that lady and she had putted to death. All the staff member had
feeling of regret for that lady and they had created a lot for her that she can recover soon and
start her new life but she can't survive more. The lady is full of positive attitude but she had
loosed the hope to live that's why she died. Staff now is more aware of caring their patients in
well manner and rendering the medication and proper motivational sessions to their patients so
that they can raise the hope of living and gaining positive energy in their further life (King, and
et.al., 2017). The staff members had also access for finding new strategies so that they can
properly treat the old women and creating various source for them so that they can start new life
with new spirit.
LO 2
A) effectiveness of The Cherry care home's company polices and procedure in supporting
polices
According to the polices of The Cherry Care home's, if someone need help which is
related to their treatment and if they are not able to pay their bills then company reach to them
and help them in the treatment without taking any cost from them (Lusk and et.al., 2019). They
are providing free of cost services to the people their staff will not take any charges with the
treatment. Those people who choose The Cherry care home's get the professional treatment from
their staff, and they provide quality services by reaching to the client’s home. company has a
reputation for providing exceptional care to the people , which many families have benefited
from for over 20 years. We have won over 20 industry care accolades, including the East of
England 2016 Care Team Award and have an average rating of 9.5/10 on the Care home. UK an
online portal that rates and reviews care homes in the UK. Reassurance that you are being cared
for by a trusted and reputable provider, with care and compassion at the forefront of all we do.
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The Cherry care home's does not have that much long procedure to support any individual or
social. People have to call them or otherwise they can content them through the Website of the
Cherry care home's company (Zeligman and Barden., 2015). After they get the information of
the patent they content them and reach to their home as soon as possible an dafter reaching to
their home The Cherry care home's staff start their treatment and give them a medicine for their
treatment. This is the process of The Cherry care home's and they work like thing to help people
provide them proper treatment and their care. They also call them and ask them if they are facing
problem after getting the problem and if they find that patent is facing problem then they provide
them and treatment again and they try to find the problem which is affecting their health
 Positive and negative effectiveness of polices and procedure
positiveness of the Cherry care is they provide better and proper treatment to the
individuals by reaching their homes, and they work according to the polices but there is one
negative ness of their polices is that people have to follow the proper procedure and individual
have to fill the form with this company, so they can start their treatment. This is an policy of the
Cherry care so it is important for the every person is to follow this procedure to take treatment
from the Cherry care.
B) Support could be provided by the specific social network.
i) Family, friends and religious community play a great role in people's lives who have just lost
someone close to them because they will always be there to support and will understand the
situation from a closer aspect which is a very important factor for the people because that will
help the person who lost someone close. For example, a boy or a girl loses there mother then that
can only be understood from the close relatives of the family and not those who are not related to
that person at all. At this point of time the person who lost a close one will need people to
support and the people around who are close to them so that they feel better, and they do not do
something harmful for themselves (Lee and et.al., 2018).
ii) Hospitals and domiciliary also play a great part in a person's life who has just faced a
traumatic accident like a heart attack because there is a positive reaction that person will
be needed at that point of time so that they can work on. The doctors and nurses will help
the person recover and make sure that there are steps which are being followed by the
person so that they do not have an accident like that again and after this they are shown
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the brighter side for living which will motivate the person to recover again. It is the work
of the doctor to make the patient recover from the traumatic experience they have had in
the past therefore hospitals and domiciliary play a very important role.
C) External Sources Of Support For Individuals Experiencing
Terminal illness of a young child- There is nothing much the doctors or the parents can do
about this illness but there is a positively which the people can show towards that person so that
the young child is living the life positively so that there is a hope for curing that illness, and they
will be better again so that the family is going to have happiness again (Woodhead, Northrop and
Edelstein, 2016). Terminal illness can make a family depressed and support is very important for
this family so that they can think straight and improve their situation and not cry over it. If
individual is having in serious condition then support from medical professionals and family
members matter a lot. If doctors and family members support individual in such sensitive
condition then it will develop their confidence and individual will recover from his condition
soon.
Macular degeneration: this is another kind of external source that may support person.
Physicians, employer may help the person in improving their condition. If person in serious
condition and employer provides them leaves and support them by providing medical expenses
recovery facility then person may feel relax which can aid the person in improving from his
condition. Government is another external sources that have made many policies to support such
patients those who are in critical condition, government policies may help person in feeling
independent financially which supports them in improving their situations well.
B) Cancer of a close family member- It is very important for the family who is meeting the
person with cancer to be positive so that they get a positive vibe because a positive vibe can
make the people change and make them feel better so that they can recover faster. It is very
important for the person to think positive about their situation so that they can improve and make
a change in them faster. Cancer takes a lot of treatment and a lot of time to be cured and staying
positive the entire time is very important for the family.
There are some external sources as well that can be provided to people suffering from life events.
They will help in providing a better environment to overcome life events. Every individual
behaves differently with others (Jones and et,.al., 2018). So, it becomes difficult to identify the
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nature and attitude of person. In this external sources can be very useful to fulfil their needs
which are as follows :-
Give and take treatments- here, various therapies can be given to patient like homeopathy is
used. It helps in understanding the person so that its needs can be identified.
Meditation and dream- it is best support given to recover form life event is meditation. There
are people who provide training and yoga services. the main aim of these group in to provide
treatment and care to person recover from life event.
Workplace support - It is related to work place support that is given by co-workers. There are
many communities that provide support to people. For example - Alzheimer's society is
encouraging people to work with employees so that focus of dementia people can be changed.
Hospital care - It is provided by hospitals to improve behaviour of people. It helps in making the
person independent and comfortable. Here, doctors communicate with them to identify need.
This changes the mental health of person. In this way, individuals can be recovered from life
event
It is evaluated that all external agencies help in providing effective health care services to
ill person. with this it is easy to fulfil their needs and recover quickly from life event. Moreover,
hospital care is highly effective in this.
LO 3
In this part of the report a reflective essay will be presented on the experiences of the writer to
gain better vision for the future tasks.
B) REFELECTION
I also have experienced some life events in which I saw many old aged people who were
not treated well on the social cares centers, and they have also gone into depression due to the
pressure of the being tortured with the health care givers as they were not qualified to give care
to the old ladies, and they were also physically abused by the male nurses when the ladies are
intoxicated with the high medicine dozes, and they do not have any senses to what is going on
with them (Hostinar, Johnson and Gunnar, 2015). So I went to the health care center and spoke
to the ladies which were mistreated as they were like my grandmother and I have created a bond
with them and I wanted them to be treated as they were treated at their respective homes. When I
met them the old ladies were crying in despair and remorse about their situation which they can't
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change as they are facing the illness of dementia and need to be kept in health care center for
treatment. I was concerned about the health and the treatment quality of the old ladies, so I hire a
consultant who interviewed the old ladies to know all the details and gather all the information
which they were not above to tell more were traumatized to speak about (Hood and Carruthers,
2016). The consultant used the psychological practices to gain the knowledge and helped the
lady tom open up so that they can understand what is wrong how the consultant can help them to
avoid the instances like that. I then went to the authorities and also filed a case in the government
office against the healthcare and social care center which formed me to withdraw the case. The
jurisdiction also helped me and passed a law stating the proper efficiency of the employees of the
caretakers and also install the CCTV camera in the center to keep the proper inspection on the
condition of the patients. By this incident the ladies also gained the confidence and knowledge
and the government also got information about what is going in the these centers. They also
helped me to support other patients which are abused or were not treated well in these centers.
Physical abuse and the mental torture were only done to the patients as the employees where not
educated and had no qualification and the patients were also uninformed abut what is going on
with them (Burkard, 2017).
It is important for Cherrytree Care Home to provide support to people to recover from life
events. These policies are made to identify their needs so that it can be fulfilled. For this care
worker can identify the person behaviour and on basis of that needs are determined (BOMAN IV
and Mowen, 2018). Beside this, home care facilities can be provided by care home to make
recover from life events.
Second thing that can be done is to guide the patient for care centre. In involves clinics,
dispensaries, etc. where proper treatment and care be given. Experts can be involved in providing
those care facilities and following up patient to observe his mental health.
Care giver organisation in UK provide social, physical care, etc. to patients. For this
strategies and plans are developed as per needs of person. Through that, needs of those are
fulfilled. Alongside, Cherrytree Care Home is having highly capable staff that can be used to
provide care to old age people. Apart from it, there are other things as well related to care
services that can be taken into consideration by care home. It will enable them to work as per
care plan of individuals. The doctors and specialist can be involved in decision making along
with care workers.
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At the top level there are health committees that develop procedures for providing care to
people. They set basic standards so that each individual can be given equal treatment.
Professionals and staff develop various methods to support bereavement people.
CONCLUSION
This report concludes that social networks there were many events which were into
addressed and also decreased the quality of the centers. The social network of the centers. The
impact of the social groups also impacted the quality of the services to the patients. It is very
important for the family and the friends of the patient to be very positive around them so that
there is a positive vibe in the room and there are higher chances for the person to feel better. This
can be understood from the basic experience one has from life, and he must follow them so that
the people can recover faster from their illnesses.
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