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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 goes on. Your name, the street you live on, your family connections and their history, your race, your marital status, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses, your hair colour, your career, your likes and dislikes, whether you have children; the list is endless. Of cours......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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 in and out of a bed or chair can feel awkward. The fact that it is not something that can be commercialised, like laundry or meal making, means physical contact and seeing someone naked is necessary in care work. As a society we have ‘rules’ for touch-behaviour. ......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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 mixed economy created choice for people receiving ‘community care’ and highlighted the differences in the way people like to be cared for. A few years later, John Baldock and Clare Ungerson created a model that encompasses these care consumers. Their idea was that al......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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 disorder and the most widely affecting is the aptly named ‘Baby Blues’, which according to Royal College of Psychiatrists website (Royal College of Psychiatrists, Post Natal Depression, 2005) affects around half of new mothers and causes tearfulness and irritability. It......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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 elderly or suffering from a mental or physical illness. It is important to recognise these carers, as they need support. There is a vast array of support that could be made available to them, which include training and information, financial help, contact with other carers, ......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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 in the past three months after a referral from her GP Dr Jones who had visited her at home due to concerns raised by her neighbours. Their main concern is that Mrs A is neglecting herself and her property. The practice nurse has also visited twice in that time to try to help Mrs A with nutri......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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 negative and some are positive, yet all change requires some personal adjustment and the situation needs to be handled properly if the move is to be successful. There are four main types of moving - daily moves, intermittent moves, short-term moves and permanent relocati......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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. The model focuses on the physical processes of disease and does not take into account psychological or social factors in the cause and treatment of illness. (Unit 1 page 88)......(short extract) to download the full answer, please Sign in or Register then make a payment or submit an essay

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