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K100 Health & Social Care

Question: What are the factors that might lead to a loss of identity during ageing? How might care workers support people during this process?

Answer: Our identity is like a complicated woven fabric. It is made up of several different areas that change and build as time...

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Question: Why can it be difficult to decide whether or not a person is an informal carer and does it matter? Base your answer on the case of someone you know, or have read about.

Answer: There are between six and seven million people in the UK who provide extra help to family, friends or neighbours that are...

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Question: From the perspective of the medical model, post-natal depression is a diagnosable disease. What other approaches are there to understanding post-natal maternal depression?

Answer: Post-natal depressive disorders are very common in the days and weeks following the birth of a baby. There are three types of...

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Question: TMA03 – mark 85

Evaluate Baldock and Ungerson’s model of service users, basing your discussion on cases you have met in K100 and perhaps also service users you know.

Answer: In 1990 the NHS and Community Care Act reformed the sector, introducing competition and a market in health and social care. This...

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Question: TMA01 – mark 85

Why is contact with or sight of a person’s body often a difficult issue in care relationships? What strategies can carers use to manage intimate care?

Answer: Intimate care is something that adults would normally do for themselves and helping someone bathe, go to the toilet and lift them...

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Question: Approved Social Workers Home Visit Report

Answer: Mrs A is an elderly lady who lives alone in her own home. She has been visited by Social Workers four times...

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Question: TMA02 – mark 77

In what ways can people be affected by moving between care environments? Illustrate your answer with examples from K100 that involve a variety of care settings.

Answer: The way in which people are affected by moving between care environments depends on a whole range of variables. Some affects are...

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Question: (K100 - TMA 01 - Part 1)
In Spite of its successes the biomedical model has been criticised. Why? Include examples to show both the strengths and drawbacks of the biomedical approach.

Answer: The biomedical model of medicine has been around for centuries as the predominate model used by doctors in the diagnosis of disease....

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