Empower Individual

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Investigate ways of Empowering Individuals who use Health and Social Care Investigate ways of Empowering Individuals who use Health and Social Care Contents: P3: Describe ways in which care workers can empower individuals using relevant examples from health and social care? P4: Explain why it is important to take individual circumstances into account when planning care that will empower an individual, using relevant examples from health and social care? Page 3 M2: Discuss the extent to which individual circumstances can be taken into account when planning care that will empower them, using relevant examples from health and social care? Page 9 D2: Assess the potential difficulties in taking individual circumstances into account…show more content…
This means that all individuals can tell the health and social care service what there likes and dislikes are so that the individuals can control and make their own decisions on what they want to do in their everyday life. Also, this is especially important when vulnerable individuals cannot look after themselves or require help which are individuals included in personal care help. Another important element to plan care and empowerment for individuals is when they need support because they cannot talk for themselves, for example; an individual who has had a stroke might have a speech and language problem which means that it might be quite difficult for the care assistant to understand their personal preferences. Therefore, if the service user struggles to express their feelings and talk about them, then the care assistant should involve their family and friends who can sometimes make it easier for the service user as they know there relatives and trust them…show more content…
However, sometimes it can be quite difficult to include all the circumstances for the elderly individuals in the residential home because of the limited resources that there are and the services that can be provided in the home. Sometimes, the services are not available to be used because of the cost of them and there isn’t enough funding so individuals will have to wait if they want this type of care and treatment. Here are a few examples in residential home settings when individual circumstances have been taken into account such
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