Environmental health services and programs are now widely found in every community throughout Australia. These services and programs focus on the health and wellbeing of every individual within that community. They include partnerships formed within all levels of government‚ with communities and industries‚ research and education industries‚ as well as with government and environmental health and health work forces (DoH 1999‚ p. 1). Environmental health programs can focus around issues such as immunisation
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Schmidt‚ MIBC 112‚ Unit 2‚ Assignment Dementia Dementia isn’t a specific disease. Instead‚ dementia describes a group of symptoms affecting thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily functioning. Dementia involves damage of nerve cells in the brain‚ which may occur in several areas of the brain. Dementia may affect people differently‚ depending on the area of the brain affected. The factors that causes this
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Support Individual To Eat and Drink Approaching lunch time in my work place‚ getting all service user ready for lunch. As I was aware Mrs y recently had been referred to speech and language therapist for assessment due to swallowing difficulties so I ask the nurse in charge for access to Mrs y‚ care plan to see what changes have been made to her dietary requirements‚ Mrs y care plan is in kept in a secure cupboard in the duty room as required by the data protection act 1998 and embrace privacy
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Assessment 1.1: understanding dementia 1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘dementia’. Dementia is a term used to describe a collection of signs and symptoms that happen to the brain when it is affected by the progression of certain diseases such as vascular dementia (when brain cells die due to lack of oxygen) and Alzheimer’s disease (a specific brain disease). Some of the affects these diseases have are on a person’s memory‚ language and communication abilities‚ behaviour and ability to make
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CT236- Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s setting. 1. Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role. -Person centred care. -Working within policies and procedures -Working within rules and regulations -Giving each individual their own privacy/dignity. -Making the individuals have their own independence‚ try to get them to do things themselves if they are capable of doing it. -Team work‚ working part as a team
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Advance Care Planning - Taking the right steps Writing Assignment Introduction Making decisions about your health care needs as well as the choices that you would expect to make if you were not able to are very important reasons for advance care planning. An advance care plan coincides with the medical treatment received. Whether you contract an illness or you are involved in an accident that prevents you from making decisions to treat or not based off the prognosis leaves the decision
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WORK BOOK –CU2650 Learner Name:.. ……………………….. CU2650 Support Individuals with Specific Communication NeedsUnit aim:This unit is for those who support individuals with specific communication needs. It provides the learner with the knowledge and skills that address personal interaction and the use of special methods and aids to promote communication. Credit value-5Level 3GLH 35 This workbook covers the following elements:Learning outcomes:There are
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Knowing that when you reach at least 80 years old‚ a third of the world’s populations will be diagnosed with dementia. More likely about 70% can be caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. With Dementia‚ possible areas that will be affected are memory‚ attention span‚ language‚ and even problem solving. In most cases with people dealing with dementia; they will be
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with time.” (Buijssen‚p15) Dementia is a ‘clinical syndrome characterized by loss of function in multiple cognitive abilities in an individual with previously normal intellectual abilities.’(Clare‚ p5) While dementia is a worldwide problem that has no cure‚ very few people recognize and understand the four major forms of it. The most common forms of dementia are Vascular dementia‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Huntington’s disease‚ and Alzheimers disease. Vascular dementia is a decline in thinking skills
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start doing Parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. The question we are all wondering is if Parkour should be considered a sport at the same level of other individual sports? In this essay‚ I will argue that Parkour is a sport such as any individual sport for multiple reasons. For me‚ I also consider it a form of art because it’s very fluid and done in the city while learning the culture. First‚ Parkour should be known as a sport
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