University Healthcare Module: Significant Life Events Support Report

This report delves into the complexities of significant life events, specifically focusing on dementia and bereavement, and their profound impact on individuals' lives. It explores the physical, psychological, and social consequences of these events, highlighting the importance of support from family, associations, and media. The report analyzes the responses of health and social care services, including policies and procedures designed to support individuals, such as maintaining patient confidentiality and providing a safe environment. It emphasizes the need for physical and psychological support, as well as the role of external sources like therapy and meditation in facilitating recovery. Furthermore, the report underscores the strategies health and social care organizations should adopt, such as providing staff training and affordable medication, to effectively assist individuals experiencing significant life events. Finally, the report discusses the importance of providing individuals with support to help them deal with the challenges that significant life events bring.

Supporting Significant Life
Events

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INTRODUCTION
Life events is defined as a discrete experiences through which an individual goes through
in their daily life and has a effect on the personal and social activities. Major life events for the
individuals include marriage, divorce, illness, injury as well as changing or loosing the job.
Normally, these life events are unexpected and unpredictable which occurs in the individual life.
This project is based on understanding and determining the significance of the life events on
individual (Wrzus and et.al., 2013). It will throw highlights on impact of the life events on
others and also analyses support from others individuals which are experiencing life events. In
addition to this it will also determine responses provided by the health and social care services
that are highly supporting and experiencing significant life events.
TASK 1
1.1.
Life events are the uncertainties and the conditions which exist in individual’s life and
has a significant impact on one's own life. There are different life events which exist in
individual’s life and due to which they are not able to survive and sustain in their life in a
effective manner. Two significant life events which are mentioned in the case study is about
Dementia and Bereavement which are discussed beneath-
Impact of Dementia-
Dementia is general term of illness which causes a decline in mental ability of an
individual which generally involves memory loss. Alzheimer's is the most common type of
dementia disease. Jacqui's is suffering from dementia under the case study. It has various
physical, psychological and social impact on one's own individual life.
 Physical impact that the individual faces is the loss of appetite, that is which causes the
individual to forgot the most important things and makes them difficult for them to recall
the most important things. In context to the case study of Jacqui which is suffering from
the physical impact of sleeping problem and negatively impacts the health.
 It will have psychological impact on individuals life in the form of depression, loosing of
self-confidence, this creates disturbance in one's own life (Luhmann and et. al,, 2012. ).
 Individuals facing this problem have social impact of having problem in communication
and interaction with others and this makes the individual socially isolated from others.
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Impact of Bereavement
It is the state of loss when someone close to an individual is died. This problem is
suffered by Gemma after the death of her mother. This life event also has a physical,
physiological and social impact on one' s own life.
 Physical impact of bereavement are increase or decrease in the appetitive, lack of energy,
lack of sleep and difficulty in breathing problem.
 Physiological impacts which Gemma faces are feeling of sadness and loneliness which
has negative impact on one's own health.
 Social impacts are individuals stop interacting with friends and family and starts
remaining isolated from each other. This affects their health as it will always keep them
in loneliness feeling (Riley and Rubarth, 2015).
1.2
When the individual has impact from significant life events it is vital for them to have
support and responses of group so as to live in a effective manner. In addition to this there are
various responses which provides emotional and social support to the individuals to get recover
from the disease in a proper manner, discusses as follows-
 The major support should be provided from the family members such as parents of Jacqui
should provide support which will help in better recovery of the disease as well Gemma
should be provide moral support by her family members which would help her out in fast
recovery and helps in managing significant life events.
 Associations- There are also some associations which provide support to the individual
by understanding their issues and emotions and help them in fast recovery through
increasing their involvement in various activities (Woodhead, Northrop and Edelstein,
2016).
 Media Support- This is a effective platform towards which the individual gets support
towards proper communication and interaction with their friends and family members.
This platforms allows the Jacqui and Gemma to properly share their problems on various
platforms and get suggestions and opinions from the different group of people and helps
them in fast recovery of the disease.
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1.3.
When the individual suffers from significant life events it will have a impact on others life.
As the individuals have feelings for the persons who are suffering from any disease or illness and
this has a impact on other's life in context to health and social care. In context to the case study
of Jacqui is suffering from the illness of dementia whose major impact is memory loss which
causes her to forget to eat or dressed. This has caused impact on her teenage daughter as well as
other co-workers in the office. This causes negative impact on others life. Moreover in context to
Gemma which is suffering from the problem of Bereavement which is due to loss of her mother.
This has a negative on other life such as friends and other family members. Moreover it has a
impact on others people in context to health and social care as individuals suffering from
significant life events has to be dealt in a calm and a gentle manner and provides them proper
decisions so as to help them in fast recovery. Health and social care institutions needs to hire
proper doctor and consultants so as to help the individuals facing the significant life events
(Andel and et.al., 2012).
TASK 2
2.1
In order to provide support to the individuals which are affected by significant life events,
in context to this organisation has created various policies and procedures so as to provide proper
services and helps in the better recovery of the individuals. Therefore organisation policies and
procedures in context to the illness of dementia and bereavement are discussed as beneath-
Policies-
 Keeping patients data confidential- This policy of health and social care institutions
prevails that they record patients data suffering from bereavement and dementia but
hence keep it confidential and doesn't provide information to other persons about them.
This helps the person to get betterment without the interference of any other individuals.
 Healthier and Safer environment- This is a effective policy adopted by the health and
social care institutions to promote healthier and safer workplace environment so as to
take care of the patients in a proper manner. This will help the individuals facing from the
problem of bereavement and dementia in a better manner.
Procedures-
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 Determining issue of the patient in a proper manner- This is effective procedure
adopted by health and care institutions to determine the issue of the patient in a proper
manner. This procedure will allow doctor and consultants to understand the main issue of
patients suffering from bereavement and dementia and will assist in better treatment.
 Analysing and Conducting Proper Examination- This way help the doctor and
consultants within the health and social institution to proper examination to the patients
by properly understanding their issue. This will lead to providing proper treatment to the
patients in a effective way (Lawrence and et.al., 2012).
Therefore, these are the effective policies and procedures which are adopted by the health and
social care institution so as to provide services to the patients in a effective and efficient manner.
2.2
It is vital for the other individuals to provide support to other people who are suffering
from the problem of dementia and bereavement. Support provided by the group helps them in the
fast recovery of the heath condition. Therefore patients can be provided with various types of
supports which are experiencing significant life events. It is explained as follows-
 Physical Support- Individuals suffering from life events such as with the illness of
dementia and bereavement needs proper physical support as they emotionally unstable
and loss of memory creates problem for them to live a healthy lifestyle. As Gemma
which is facing the problem of bereavement needs therapies in the form of physical
support and Jacqui should be provided physical support in the form of helping her to
remember her daily activities. This will help in the fast recovery of both patients.
 Psychological Support- Jacqui and Gemma both should be provided with psychological
support as various counselling sessions should be provided to the Jacqui regarding
helping her to recover form anxiety and therefore helps them to increase their memory so
as to conduct business activities in a proper manner and therefore Gemma should be
refereed to a specialist or a proper bereavement councillor which will help her to
understand emotions in a proper manner and provide them with effective decisions,
which will help them in the improvement of their disease (Okwumabua and et.al., 2016).
These are the supports which are provided to the individuals and helps them in the proper
recovery of dementia and bereavement and assist them to enhance their living standard.
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2.3
External sources are the wide variety of sources which help the individuals which are
facing various life events and has negatively impacted one's own health. Their main focus is to
provide utmost care to all the patients and helps them to cure at a faster extent by providing them
with proper medical treatments. Therefore this helps the health and social care institutions to
work in a effective manner towards the helping the patients, it is described as follows-
 Give and Take treatment- This is a proper external source as it leads to effective
treatment of the patients. This is concerned to the fact that patients should properly trust
on their doctors against the medication provided to them. When the patients have proper
trust on their doctors it will help them to share their medical problems and will allow the
doctors to provide them with better treatment.
 Meditation- This is an effective external source support which helps the patients to get
treatment in a proper manner. Meditation support when provided to the Gemma and
Jacqui it will help them to relax their mind and body and helps them to come out of their
depression and memory loss issues. This source would also allow them to reduce
frustration and helps in reducing the symptom of the disease such as of Bereavement and
Dementia (Boles, 2013).
These are the suitability and the effectiveness of the external sources which could be
provided to the patients and helps them towards the recovery of the disease in a proper manner.
TASK 3
3.1
Individuals suffering from significant life-events needs supports and responses from
different groups so as to help them to do better recovery. Therefore these needs the organisations
to develop proper strategies and tactics to as to help the patients in proper and effective manner.
It is discussed as follows-
 In order to provide proper and effective services it is necessary for the health and social
care organisation to provide training to their employees so that can understand the issue
and illness of the patient in proper manner and therefore provides them with proper
medication.
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 Along with this it is necessary for health and social care organisation to understand the
cause of the illness and takes proper decision regarding the fast recovery of the illness
which should be treated at a proper time.
 Moreover best to best examination of the patients issue should be diagnosed so that that
can find the root cause of the problem and therefore helps in healing the patients in a
proper way (Sirgy, 2012).
 Health and social care organisations should treat the patients in a proper manner and by
providing them with affordable medication so that it is affordable for the patients to
recover from their illness in a better manner.
These are the various responses or the strategies that needs to be opted by the health and
social care organisation towards providing effective services to the patients and help them in
better recovery.
3.2
This reflection is towards one's own contribution for the support of the individuals that
are facing significant life events. While I was helping out individuals who are suffering from
significant life experiences I need to know about the disturbances in the physical and mental
state of individual, that how these life events such as divorce, loosing of job, injury or any other
illness have a negative impact on the individuals life. It helped me to know that these life events
have a negative impact on he health of the individuals as well as the social network. I studied
both the cases that are presented in the case study in which individuals are facing the problem of
dementia and bereavement which is concerned to dementia as loss of memory and appetitive an
d bereavement is concerned is to feeling of sadness when there is death of someone's close. In
order to help the individuals suffering from such illness I conducted various activities such as
interacting with such patients on a regular basis and therefore asked them regarding the proper
issues which they are facing because of such illness. As individuals facing from the dementia
problems, that is major related to the loss of memory. In such case I helped the individuals by
asking them to make a list of tasks which they have to do in a particular day. This will remove
the problem of forgetfulness of the important things and thereby reducing anxiety and stress
among the individuals .
On the other hand individuals facing the problem of bereavement, which is related to the
feeling of sadness.. I contributed such individuals towards increasing their engagement in
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different activities. This will help them to reduce their depression as it will allow them to focus
on different activities and thus leads to reducing the feeling of sadness and will help them to
overcome with joy and happiness in their life (Cogan, 2014).
These are the personal contribution of mine which help the individuals towards the fast
recovery of the patients in a effective manner.
3.3
In order to provide proper and effective services to the patients there are specific
recommendations that should be adopted by the health and social care which are discussed as
follows-
 Increasing the quality of services- This is the recommendation which is concerned to
health and social care institutions should provide quality services to the patients so as to
help them to properly cure against the significant life events. Therefore utmost training
should be provided to the employees within the health care institution so as effectively
treat their patients against the illness of dementia and bereavement
 Tele- care services- It is the type of services in which advice of the consultants should be
provided to the patients at their home, if they are not in the condition of visiting the
health and social care organisations. This is a effective service which is provided by the
health and social organisations, moreover help of the proper support group should also be
provided to the individuals which will help the patients in fast recovery of their disease
within a particular time span.
 Provide systematic long term service- It is a general recommendation provided to the
health and social care organisation so as to provide healthier and long term services to its
clients to ensure that patients get benefit from the medication and helps them in proper
healing.
 In addition to medicines, engagement in various activities- It is also recommended to
the health and social care organisation that in spite of proper medication, patients should
be engaged in various activities which leads them to overcome the feeling of sadness and
fill joy and happiness in their lives. This way employees life is filled with happiness and
helps them to overcome their illness in a better manner.
These are the various recommendations which should be adopted by the health and social
organisations and leads to proper treatment of the patients(Clarke, and et.al., 2013).
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CONCLUSION
It has been analysed from the above report that there are various type of life events that
occurs in the individuals life and has a negative impact on the physical as well as the social
network life. Moreover it has also been realised that impact of the life events on the individuals
has a impact on the life of other individuals as these individuals or the patients disturbs the
working of the people all around. Therefore in order to overcome such issues organisations
should adopt and implement proper polices and strategies so that proper treatment services
should be provided to the patients. Moreover there are various organisational responses and
support in the form of physical and physiological support provided to the employee so as to deal
them in proper manner. This assist the organisation towards providing proper and effective
services to the patients and help them in the fast recovery.
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REFFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ross, C.E., 2017. Social causes of psychological distress. Routledge.
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