Unit 5 Health And Social Care Level 3 Essay

Music and drama: in health and social care we have various individuals who have various needs in terms of providing services for them. However, service providers use music and drama in order for clients to be able to express themselves. The force of music, particularly singing help dementia clients to be able to communicate because they use it as a point expressing themselves. For example, in Stone End Day Centre where I did my placement, the staff used music and drama to be able to communicate with clients who have dementia. This has helped them to be able to communicate with the clients because the clients can easily express themselves by using music and drama. In addition to this, music and drama is used in the context of either 1-1 or group. The 1-1 could be between a staff and a client or the group will be between some staff and some group of clients who are particularly suffering from dementia. In the day centre where I did my placement, the staff used music and drama for a particular group of individuals who have dementia or who cannot express their self through speaking words. The staff used music and drama so that those group of clients can communicate and express themselves. However, in the event that a particular client have severe dementia the staff will
The communication between them was informal, the staff had to explain something to the elderly person, her tone of voice and language used was very comforting and she was patient waiting for the elderly person to respond. The communication was effective because after the staff explained in more detail what the task was, the elderly person understood. The types of interpersonal communication for both the 1-1 and the group interaction were speech, for the gathering communication the staff needed to do a physical example of some dance moves in between the interaction in order for the elderly people to