UNIT FIVE AS ADULT SERVICE USERS: CONCEPTS REVELANT TO ADULT SERVICE USERS

Disability

Loss or reduction of functional ability or impairment, the lack or loss of ability to carry out activities, anatomical physiological, intellectual or psychological dysfunction e.g paralysis or schizophrenia the social disadvantage faced by those who have impairments

Empowerment

Enabling a person or a group of people to speak on own behalf supporting a person or a group of people to take actions on own behalf . Sharing revealing knowledge or expertise with individual or groups so that they makes informed decisions to give service users power to be involved in or make decisions which affect them. Development of needs led services users centred service

Person centred care

Promotes and facilitates full participation of adults in all decisions affecting their lives e.g in care planning this means taking full account of their views and wishes feeling and where appropriate the views of other who have an interest in their safety and wellbeing it is about focusing care on needs of individuals rather than the needs of any service

Adults in need of protection

A person aged 18 or over who’s expose to harm through abuse exploitation or neglect. May be increased by their personal characteristics and or like circumstances and who is unable to protect their own well being property asserts rights or other interests and where action or inaction of another person or persons causing or likely to cause her/him to be harmed

Concept of need

Essential requirement which should be kept in order to ensure that the individual reaches a state of health and social wellbeing may include physical social emotional intellectual cultural and spiritual names e.g a safe environment, communication, mobilising and sleeping