Health

SOCIAL ISSUES THAT INFLUENCE HEALTHCARE: CASE STUDY ON VULNERABLE ADULTS AND DEMENTIA

Introduction

Health and health problems derive through many external forces. The factors which have a rapid impact on an individual’s health-related behaviour are the surrounding physical environments, diet and nutrition and accessibility and quality of the care the person is receiving (Murrayet et al. 2013). The factors are considered as the determinants of the durability of life. ‘Vulnerable adult’ is a term which expresses the patients who are aged from 18 years and are belonging with a disability which can be due to age or due to diseases. The vulnerable adults are unable to protect themselves (Stevens and Cook, 2015). The vulnerability occurs in an adult due to varied reasons, one of the compelling most reason is a lack of support and care. When a person becomes aged or is suffering from diseases since a long time, they become mentally disabled. On that period proper care can able to recover them from such grievances. ‘Dementia’ is a chronic disorder of mental processes that can cause by brain disease or injury. The disorder leads to personality changes, memory disorders as well as impaired reasoning (Hou and Marquardt, 2015). This report focuses particularly on the ‘social determinants of health’, to illustrate how social determinants of health can affect the lifestyle of individuals.

Support network of healthcare

The term ‘support network’ describes the extensive care that provides supportto a person who is going through a disorder (Wright and Rains, 2013). For instance, an individual who is suffering from a chronic disease, they can get support by the supporting team to overcome their disabilities. In healthcare, the support network provides both the emotional and practical healthcare to someone to overcome their difficulties in health-related issues, either physical or mental (Wrzuset et al. 2013).

Role of support network in healthcare and maintenance

According to a survey report proposed by World Health Organization (WHO), 10% of the population has some health issues including disability or disorders. In the context of vulnerable adults and dementia patients, they need special cares and supports to overcome the disabilities they are undergoing. The support network provides extensive support for them by the mean of protecting them from social harms,Offeringthem with the required hospitality and medicine,Protecting them from social abuses.

There is different healthcare supports are available for the vulnerable adults as well as the people who have dementia or any neuropsychological disorder, such as the Care Quality Commission of UK which helps the people by monitoring and inspecting the issues hampering them and contributing to regulate the issues (Dewing and Dijk, 2016).

Voice UK is a nationwide charity which supports peoples with learning disabilities and other vulnerable adults who have lost their mental steadiness due to crime or abuses.

Respond is another national charity that helps adults who have experienced any trauma or ill-treatment. National autistic society is a leading organisationin UK that supports the patients with autism (Cutress and Muncer, 2014).

Impact of lack of support on health

The term ‘lack of support’ elaborates lack of the supportive mentality when a person needs help or in a situation asking for help. When anindividual is suffering from a chronic disease or disorder, he might lose the mental strength to be stable by himself. The necessity of a support network happens when it’s hard for a person to overcome his issues. The situation which is deprived of support may make a person ill or deficit according to the disorder he is facing. For instance, an individual who is suffering from a long-term disease requires both physical and mental supports (Wimoet et al. 2013). Physical supports are the medicine, treatments. But the psychological support he needs is the emotional care which will help him to get recover soon. Unfortunately,lack of support may act as a disturbance which can disturb a person’s life even much more.

Social, motivational factors

The term motivation means any need, emotion, idea or organic state that prompts a person for doing an action. In general, human motivations are basedonindividual needs that may vary according to the intensity of the situation and time. Social, motivational factors are such factors which are responsible for continuing any action by an individual according to the situation and need. Social, motivational factors can be the patient’s condition which is depriving gradually. Along with this, there are several disorders present in the society, such as Autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s, which can turn a person into helpless (Ma et al. 2014). The duty of the motivating social factors is to create the necessary willingness in a person to help the needy persons in their necessity.

Role of social, motivational factors on healthcare

The health system is undoubtedly dependent upon the labour and capitals. However, health worker’s motivation in their work is highly manifested by their behaviours in the workplace. The employeeaction has an immense impact on the health system. The health system efficacy, quality as well as the viability and accessibility of a healthcare system is directly depended upon the health professional’s performance. The healthcare system is considered as the system where people come with a willingness to serve the poor ones (Flottorp et al. 2013). Quality of the healthcare facilities is also dependent upon the available human resource and the motivation of them.

Conclusion and recommendations

The above-discussed points about the healthcare system shed light on the various covered and uncovered areas of healthcare. People who want to come in the profession of healthcare should keep in their mind that they are taking the responsibility of serving people. In the cases of severe disorders, the affected people need extended care. Sometimes, the care is not only the physical treatments but also the mental supports too. There are several psychological support networks are available in various countries which regulate the supportive network system across the country. However, to work with excellence, the support networks need the mental motivation, an urge to serve people in their inevitability. There are some countries the Africa, South America where people are deprived of such kind of supportive environments. The primaryattention of this report is to draw the attention of the people associated with the respectable profession to go beyond their imperfectness and help to modulate the healthcare sector more supportive and more reliable to people.

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