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Unit 8 Health And Social Care Reablement Analysis

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Reablement is a short term support that lasts an average of 6 to 8 weeks. Reablement helps provide personal care with daily activities. This helps encourage service users to develop the confidence, skills and self-esteem to carry out their activities themselves so they can stay living at home. The purpose of reablement is to enable the clients to re-learn the normal daily functions that we may take for granted, for example; - making and drinking a cup of tea without any help”. People using reablement are seen to have greater improvement in physical functioning and improved quality of life compared to people using traditional homecare. Reablement is provided by the government and is free to all in Scotland, reablement is expensive to startup …show more content…

The first act I looked into was the mental health, care and treatment Scotland act 2003. This is an act that sets out how you will be treated if you have a mental illness like dementia, a learning disability or a personality disorder and lets you know what your rights are. This act also allows an individual make an advanced statement stating how they would like to be treated, if they became too unwell in the future to make that decision. The mental health, care and treatment act is monitored by the mental welfare commission Scotland. This act is relevant to reablement as it helps reablement carers to understand the person’s wishes for treatment and helps the person being cared for know what they are entitled to. Also the mental welfare commission Scotland carries out regular inspections to make sure no ill-treatment is happening and also to check people’s welfare, physically and …show more content…

The support worker has a code of conduct. The code sets the standard of conduct expected of healthcare support workers and adults social care workers. This outlines the behaviors and attitudes that people should expect to receive from those who have signed up to the code. The code of conduct helps to provide safe, compassionate care and support, it supports and protects the right of the individual and this code is taken into practice with traditional care, with nurses and care workers having a hands on approach and doing everything for them, making sure they are safe and well looked after and their needs are met. However with reablement the care worker or nurse may have to explain to the person that even they are physically taking a step back in doing everything for them, they are still caring for them and have their full respect and attention to care. The only difference is that the person being cared for can stay at home and will be taught how to live independently again avoiding long unnecessary stays in

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