Purpose Of The Care Act 2014

The purpose of the Care Act 2014 passed into law in May 2014 is to safeguard adults from abuse and neglect, set care standards, health education and health research authority (LGU, 2015). In the past, support from social work services used to be the so-called ‘post-code lottery’ until the Care Act 2014 came into effect in April 2015 and has modernised the legislation and practices of adult care (DfH, 2016). The main principles of the Care Act 2014 are the "provision of wellbeing and prevention and the recognition that an individual, their family, and/or carer must be enabled to make decisions regarding their own care" (TCSW, 2014, p.1).
“Section 1(2) of the Act defines the scope of ‘well-being’ for the purposes of the general duty specified in section 1(1). This requires a local authority, when exercising its functions under the Act in relation to an individual, to promote that individual's wellbeing (Price, 2015, p.2)”.
Mrs M is a 79-year-old woman. Although she believes she is physically healthy, yet her short-term memory has deteriorated. She has started noting things down. Since her husband's recent death Mrs M has changed: she is frequently baffled and puzzled, which makes her apprehensive and irritated. Mrs M’s friends and people from her neighbourhood are considerably worried about her current state. The case was reported to the police upon which it was referred the to the social care assessment. The decision was to place Mrs M temporarily in a residential home in order to carry out a more detailed assessment. The first problems, of physical nature, were: malnourishment and dehydration. As for the behaviour, Mrs M was described as ‘incontinent’ and ‘unpredictable’, with a changeable mood. Once she was withdrawn and unwilling to talk or communicate in any other way, next she would be openly dissatisfied and complaining or even