Care for Elderly Patients with Dementia

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Knowledge and Legal Framework and Influence on Social Work Process5

Ethical Theories and Values That Influence Social Work Process7

The Role of Health and Social Care Worker In Relation To Adults with Dementia9

Management of Dementia: A Person-Centred Approach10

Dementia Risk Assessment in Health and Social Care Practice12

Social Work Intervention Strategies14

Conclusion17

References19

Care for Elderly Patients with Dementia

Introduction

“Dementia” is a failure of performance of brain that takes place due to definite illnesses. Judgment, attitude, reminiscence, decision making and speech are affected by this failure. A permanent status illustrating a compilation of warning signs that incorporate reduced logical carrying outs which obstruct during functions of standard existence and is generally utilized to portray inhabitants who have two or additional foremost well being performances damaged or misplaced for example insight, remembrance, finding opinions, verbal communication or analysis and interpretation.

Social care is synonymous with providing practical support to individuals and enabling them live an enjoyable life full of health and happiness. Social care workers can do a lot more than just helping the average person do everyday tasks with efficiency. They can bring a valuable change into others' lives. Social care focuses on improving lives of individuals, communities and groups across the U.K. and beyond. Social care is on the priority list of the government agendas that cater to massive well-being provisions of the governmental and statutory agencies (Adams, 2003).

Health care provisions are essential for the survival and well-being of any society. In those societies where health care facilities are conveniently accessible to the common men, prosperity and harmony reigns supreme. The concept of health and social care is integrated together. Social care aims to develop abilities in people through which they can lead normal, independent lives like others. Social inclusion is a product of social care services. Social inclusion is a multifaceted approach that addresses whether everyone in a society meets the basics of life, as well as issues of income inequality and rising wage levels. Social inclusion and connectedness with the society can easily be linked with the mental and physical health of individuals.

The most prevalent conceptual model for care giving is a stress process paradigm in which the onset and progression of chronic illness and the resulting disabilities are assumed to be stressful for both the patient and the family carer. Most research has focused on the experience of the carer and is limited to carers of patients, particularly family carers of the elderly (including those with dementia) and the mentally ill. Although it has been shown that caring for a relative with dementia or mental illness is very burdensome and demanding almost no research has directly compared the two types of care giving. If investigations of the stress effects of care giving on the carer provide one perspective, studies focusing on the dyadic relationship between the carer and the patient offer another viewpoint on care giving. Few studies have taken relationship quality as a central focus. As for dementia, some researchers have investigated the predictive role of the quality ...