Analysis: Supporting Significant Life Events in Health & Social Care

This report delves into the profound impact of significant life events on individuals, encompassing physical, emotional, and social dimensions. It examines group responses to these events, particularly within the context of healthcare and social care organizations like the NHS, and evaluates the repercussions for those providing support. The effectiveness of organizational policies and the role of social networks and external support sources are assessed. Furthermore, the report reflects on organizational responses to individual needs, personal contributions to support, and provides recommendations for enhancing organizational support systems. This analysis highlights the importance of comprehensive support mechanisms for individuals navigating significant life events and the ripple effects within their support networks.

Unit 21 –
Supporting Significant
Life Events

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
1) Explain the impact of important life events on people......................................................2
2) Examine group responses to life events that has occur to one of its members..................4
3) Evaluate the impact for others in organisation when an individual is affected.................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
1) Assess the effectiveness of organisational policies and procedures in supporting individuals
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2) Describe how social networks provides support to individuals who are experiencing
significant life events..............................................................................................................7
3) Assess the suitability of external sources of support for those who are affected...............8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
1) Examine organisational responses to need and support of individuals..............................8
2) Reflect on own personal contributions to the support of individuals.................................9
3) Describe recommendations in order to improve the support by organisation for individuals
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CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
The significant life events are certain events that develop various changes within a life of a
person. This includes the circumstances and changes that has suddenly occur which cause a
potential impact in life of people. These events impact on both networks of social and
individuals. The events refers to the changes that has occurred within circumstances of a person
from their life is affected and does not never be same again after it. The significant life events
include both expected unexpected events that cause a significant impact on individuals. This
event also caused varies from individuals according to their behavior on it. In this assignment,
the impact of significant life events are discuss that please their potential impact on a life of an
individual (Coll and Fortinsky, 2019). There are various groups who provide their responses to
these events that is occur to one of their member. From these events, the others also impacted
who are in health and social care. In addition to this, there are various processes and policies are
occur in NHS organization that provides effectiveness in supporting the individuals who are
affected by these is significant life events. There are some social networks that provide support
to people who are experiencing sudden circumstances within their life. The support from external
sources also provides suitability to individuals who are affected from it. Moreover, the possible
responses from organization also provide support to individuals and contribution to their
experiencing of significant life events. Lastly, the recommendations are also discussed with this
report from which support can be improved in an organization.
TASK 1
1) Explain the impact of important life events on people.
The individuals faces lots of pain after losing someone who is special for them and facing
any significant event that cause and potential impact on their mind. The events can occur as
misfortunes which are faced by individuals that develop changes in the mood of individuals.
These events cause negative impact on life of an individual from which the does not properly
perform their activities and daily routine (Jacobs and Mynatt, 2017). These events cause various
effects on their health. As these events illnesses, diverse, injuries, etc. The occurrence of
significant life events causes negative impact such as stress, society and depression. The
individuals face various problems regarding their health as various changes start developing
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within their body due to negative impact of events. As there are some impact of these events are
occur which are described below.
Physical impact- when the significant life event occur in the life of an independent then
person start feeling pain that cause impact on their physical body. The changes in physically can
cause various problems within our health as it positive impact on the sleeping capacity of
individual that leads to the development of other issues in their health (McKissock, 2017). From
such events, stress and anxiety also developed within the behavior and health of an individual.
So it is necessary to provide proper treatment and services to those people who are suffering
from significant life events in their life. Without services and treatment, the events can cause
distress and society which makes individual fishing other issues with their life.
Bereavement- this impact occur when the changes within circumstances suddenly e in a life
of individual who are highly connected to their people. The individual feels from inside various
changes within their emotions and feelings. Due to suddenly develop of circumstances it cause
various changes in emotion that highly affects the individual that makes them numb. This is
highly caused due to the sudden death of family member or any tragedy that has occurred with
related one (Hackenthal, 2019). Within this, individual faces lot of emotional changes which
developed loss in emotions that may develop negative step and action by them. These types of
situations impact potential on the mind that individual are not take appropriate action and
behavior among others. This also cause bad behavior among others from which harsh action has
develop with the behavior of individuals.
Social impact- there are various changes occur when socially develops the potential impact
on the life of an individual. The changes within socially cause various issue such as doubtful and
aggressive behavior. These changes within behavior of individual can be improved by providing
proper support to them. This can be provided by friends and family who can provide support in
the changing behavior of an individual so that developing issues can be minimized properly. The
proper communication and other strategies can also help individuals from which they can
overcome from there and society and distress condition that can impact negatively on their
health. As the impact of socially does not occur potentially on the mind and behavior of
individual. So, the changes occur within the life of individual due to significant life events.
The three significant life events include:
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 When I was 15 I lost my grandfather whom I was so attached and this event of my life
affected me adversely. It impacted me in context to my behavior as I became rude,
anxious very now and then etc.
 While learning to ride twowheeler I met with an accident and due to this I had to take bad
rest for almost a month as I was severely injured. This had social impact on me as being
in the same room for so long developed aggressiveness in my behaviors and felt I crying
all the time as I had a feeling of completely dependent on others.
 Once I had a fight with my best friend and this is such an event which affected me
adversely as due to this I felt stressed for a longer period which affected by performance
professionally as well as personally.
2) Examine group responses to life events that has occur to one of its members.
When a person faces significant life events in his life then there are various changes occur
due to happening with one of its member (Miller, 2019). The changes in the behavior of
individual also depend on the responses from groups to life events that has occur to their
members. The groups provide different type of references to the problem that is facing by an
individual. This group includes family friends and care providers who are highly connected to
individual. The groups also include society from which the responses to significant life events
also occur including on individuals. The family provides high moral support to an individual
who are facing the loss of any member of their family. It is a highly occur when the
communication between group members is positive and clear. From this, group members can
provide services made in response to individuals who are facing life events. The other group
members includes care providers and friends from which individual is highly affected.
There are different types of people who are involved with the services and care to the people
who are suffering from their significant life (Clegg and King, 2018). The association of these
people helps individuals to come out from their sad emotions. Within this, various activities are
involved so that their side emotion can be minimized and their health can be improved. The other
responses are occur from different media groups in which and individual can share their
emotions appropriately among them. The communication media interact with individuals with
various methods from which there sufferings can be properly analyzed and proper care and
services can be provided to them. From this, the appropriate support can be provided with the
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help of groups that develop positive impact on the mind of individuals. The proper support from
friends and family helps individuals from which they can reduce their sad emotions.
There are also various different groups are present within health and social Care
organization who provides appropriate care and services to individuals who are facing significant
life events within their life (McKay, Skues and Williams, 2018). They provide care and services
related to mental and physical health of people that help in in maintaining and developing the
confidence with an individual. In addition to this, they also provides the involvement of family
and friends from which proper care and services can be provided which help in reducing the
impact of events within the mental and physical health of an individual. These are possible
groups who provide their responses to life events that are faces by individuals to their close
member. They provide proper assistance and guidance to those people who are suffering distress
and misfortune with their life due to occurrence of any significant life events. The involvement
of friends and family can provide proper emotional support to individual with the help of proper
communication to them. This helps them to handle the situation appropriately without any
disturbance of mentally and physically status. The proper identification of desire of individual
helps them to overcome from their anxiety and depression that has developed due to the presence
of sudden change within circumstances.
3) Evaluate the impact for others in organisation when an individual is affected
The individual who experience significant life events, also cause impact on others who are
associated within health and social Care organization (Hamilton, 2018). As within the NHS
organization, there are various people are involved such as councilor, workers and nurses. On
these people the impact of significant life events also occur because due to their services that are
provided to individuals are also troubled. When an individual experiences significant life events
that there is lot of changes occur within their behavior including their physical and mental health
changes. In this time, individual needs proper care and services which is provided with the help
of people who are associated with health and social Care organization in order to improve their
condition. But if the individual loss his life then it causes impact on the people who are providing
services to individual. As the people who are providing services in health and social care
organization faces there service loss which was negative impact towards their services among
other people. As the people who are provided appropriate care and services towards individuals
for significant life events are considered as group of peoples who provide their support to these
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people (Scott, 2019). They also help individuals with their illnesses by engaging them within
different activities so that impact of life event can be reduced appropriately. The condition of
individual depends on the services that are provided by healthcare workers and nurses within an
organization. This develops various fear among them from with impact on them also occur by
the individuals who are experiencing sudden changes within their situation.
The health care professionals offers various services so that they can help the patients recover
from the impact of the life events that they have faced. With their services such as medical
treatment, counselling they provide good health care to the affected individual but due to this
they also gets affected as they have to manage and has to bear their stress, anxiety and behaviour
which may not be appropriate. Also this affects the level of motivation of the health care
professionals as the affected people may not comply with their instructions due to their recovery
time period may increase.
TASK 2
1) Assess the effectiveness of organisational policies and procedures in supporting individuals
There are various procedures and policies are occur within an organization which provides
effectiveness to the individuals. The main objective of these policies is to provide support to
people who are affecting from significant life events (Husbands, 2017). The providence of this
policy and procedure helps individuals from which they can have repeatedly reduce the impact of
significant life events on their health. The implementation of these policies and procedures,
health Care professionals and workers can provide appropriate services to those individuals who
are suffering from it. There are some processes which need to follow by care professionals which
develop effectiveness of policies by supporting individuals who are facing significant life events
are described below.
 The care professionals must provide care and services to individual before any
development of any life event.
 The care professionals need to ensure about all policies and procedure of the organization
so that it can benefit dam with their health.
 The healthcare professionals must need to maintain confidentiality of health of
individuals which help in developing the proper health of individuals.
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 They also need to communicate properly with the individual so that they can share about
their events properly which help in minimizing the impact of event properly. From this,
the care professionals can provide appropriate health regarding mental physical and
emotional health of an individual by treating the bereavement better.
There are different types of policies occur within organization from which healthcare
professionals can provide appropriate care and services to people by considering their concern.
Within this the implementation of policies provides effectiveness for both professionals and
service users. As from this the care professionals can provide services according to impact of
significant life events on the health status of an individual. They can also identify needs of
individual from which they can provide mental support to service users which helps them in
developing their skills and confidence (Britton, 2018). They should develop supportive
environment among patients so that their quality of life can be improved appropriately. In
addition to this, there are various resources are necessary at time of health conditions in the life
of an individual who are facing significant life events. So the healthcare professional of
organization needs to provide those resources so that proper support can be provided to them.
The policies of UK in treating the patients include:
Communal policy: This policy is for the individual who are suffering from some disease. Under
the health act this policy take into consideration to free care of the patient. According to this
policy demise of an accomplice is demonstrated. According to the policy monetary benefits are
provided to the person who takes care of the sick as during the period of taking care they may
have face salary or business.
Law of standard for Bereavement care 2001: The Law states that all the safety and care must
be provided to the bereaved people. This type of service or care is not restricted to the age of the
patient. According to the laws the services of the Healthcare professionals and agencies to such
patients must be apt time and apt place.
2) Describe how social networks provides support to individuals who are experiencing
significant life events.
There are different type of support are available within social networks who provide support
to people who are facing sudden change within their life. These groups provide appropriate
support with the help of various ways. These days are described below.
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 The support from physically also provide support to individuals by providing them proper
care and services. This is followed by development of various approaches that help in
identifying the needs of individuals of different groups. As there are numerous people
who are facing distress and depression due to their disabled in physically. So the social
network can provide those individuals with physical support to them (Meneses and Cruz,
2017).
 There are different types of support are present in social groups who provide support to
the bereavement people. The coordination between these groups can provide appropriate
and improvement within the needs of individuals by providing support through experts
and helpers.
 The individual who are facing significant life events, the various changes occurred within
their health. The stress and anxiety developed due to sudden change from which
individual demands of psychological support from their social networks. Within this, the
care and support can be provided with the help of counselors who provide support in their
mental health of an individual.
 The spiritual support is one of the supports that are needed to provide by social networks
to people who are experiencing various life events. As this helps in developing the
confidence by communicating them appropriately. The use of various methods that help
in reducing the impact of life events provides measure support to them.
3) Assess the suitability of external sources of support for those who are affected
The main objective of external sources is to provide proper care and support to those people
who are affected by significant life events. They provide different sources from which they can
help and support people in different manner (Park and Kim, 2017). As there are different types of
a medical services and treatments are present who provide appropriate care and services to the
people who are facing significant life events. These services are delivered by expert’s service
providers from which the effectiveness care can be provided to them. This includes various
therapies that are provided to people from which their stability within mental and physical health
can be achieved appropriately. From this, various conflicts that occur within the health of people
can properly reduce by use of external sources among them. There are different types of methods
are available within the external sources that help in promoting the health of individuals by
reducing the impact of events on them. The people with changing in their behavior are highly
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concern about their needs and requirements of services. But the providence of external support
reduces the negative impact of anxiety and stress within their health. The occurrence of external
sources provides suitability for individuals from which they can't communicate easily about their
events from which they can gain support towards it. The external sources do not take care of the
patient with the concern that is shown by the internal sources such as the family and friends of an
individual. They are considered to be the supplementary to the internal sources as such disease
can be treated with assistance of specialist and the medical staff. But without the personal touch
it becomes difficult for the external source to treat the patient efficiently.
TASK 3
1) Examine organisational responses to need and support of individuals
There are different types of responses are occur from organization from which they can
provide support to people within their impact of significant life event. The reaction from
organization depends on the support from them to these individual. The organization must follow
guidelines and principal so that they can provide effective care and services to these people.
These guidelines must are occur for welfare of individuals who are facing these specific
problems within their life. The policies are implemented on the basis of first services of service
users. The healthcare professionals of organization must response appropriately so that they can
provide appropriate support to the needs of individuals (Lusk and et. al., 2019). The organization
must ensure about their support and services at each level that helps in enhancing the health of
individuals.
The healthcare professional of organization must need to communicate with individuals at
regular intervals so that they can properly and life the cause of their sudden change within their
life. They also need to communicate appropriately so that while maintaining records, it can
appropriately occur that helps in providing more accurate services to these people. The NHS
organization must and sure about their services so that new changes can be develop within their
lives by improving their quality of life. They also need to make sure that their services can make
and courage and develop confidence among individuals so that they can overcome from impact
of significant life events. The responses of organization include quick assessment of condition of
an individual that cause negative impact on their health. From this, the professionals can
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appropriately analyze the cause and impact of significant life events that cause negative changes
within the behavior and health of an individual.
2) Reflect on own personal contributions to the support of individuals
My own personal contribution within the providing support to people who are facing
significant life events is in a development stage. I have learned various things that are necessary
to provide to those individuals who are facing significant life events within their life. In addition
to this, the people who are facing sudden change within their circumstances highly need support
from their friends and family (Chopko and et. al., 2016). They can help individuals to overcome
from impact by providing concern with supportive action.
I referred that the communication skills can help in developing the relationship and
connection between individuals, family and friends which help them to communicate with them
easily. From this, the psychological support can be provided to individual who have experienced
a lot of changes within their life. I also learnt that the presence of different group members also
help in maintaining the emotions of people by providing them proper care and support. There are
various life events are face by individual such as losing someone who are highly connected with
them, loss of job, abandoned from socially and other. The occurrence of this develops major
impact on the mental and physical health of an individual from which various other issues are
developed. The involvement of various groups also helps in analyzing needs and support that are
needed to individual in order to overcome from the impact of significant life events.
3) Describe recommendations in order to improve the support by organisation for individuals
From the above report it has been recommended that the organization must improve their
support that are available within their system so that they can provide appropriate care and
services to individual who are affected by significant life events. The recommendations are
described below.
 The organization must follow standard and specific procedure so that different
approaches can be used for individuals which help them to overcome from their impact.
 They also need to involved their friends and family from which protective services and
care can be provided to individuals.
 The Healthcare professional workers of organization must acquire proper development
and training programs from which they can appropriately engage with people that help
them to provide proper support (Cesta and et. al., 2017).
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 The care professional of organization should apply patient centered approach within the
treatment that helps in providing effective services. It also helps in developing the
relationship between individual or health Care professionals as they feel comfortable
about the services. It also helps in analyzing the needs and requirements of individual at
the time of delivering services to them.
 The proper flow of processes and services help in influencing the understanding about
services by individuals that leads to reducing impact of issues.
 The implementation of regular audits helps the organization in improving their support
that is available within organization for people. From this, the quality of care can improve
regularly by influencing the performance of care professionals. As they play major role in
in providing and treatment to people who are facing sudden change within their life.
 The organization need to adopt various strategies that help them in providing services to
individuals.
 The organization must consider about the rights of individuals while providing services to
them. As the need to maintain confidentiality about their information so that proper and
effective services and care can be provided to individuals.
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