Health & Social Care: Service users

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Unit 3: 1st Assignment

Background of the Service User

Mr Jones is 56 years old. He is a care worker and works in a care home for the elderly and the disabled.  He started smoking at the young age of 16 and hasn’t stopped since then.  He used to smoke about 20-25 a day and sometimes it could go up to 30 on a really stressful day.  He is epileptic and also suffers from hypertension but these illnesses are under control by means of medication.  He has a family history of diabetes and coronary heart disease but fortunately personally he does not suffer from any of them.  He also doesn’t drink alcohol.

Mr Jones is a father to 5 children and has never seen the need to stop smoking even when his wife was pregnant or when their baby were very young.  In spite of his involvement in health care has never considered stopping or reducing his smoking habit until he was very ill in hospital.  One of the varicose veins in his legs had burst and was not healing properly due to the constriction of the vein which was initially caused by smoking.  This was Mr Jones’ wake-up call but he could not give up smoking entirely. So, he reduced the amount to 5 cigarettes a day in 3 months and is still smoking 5 a day to this date.

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Perspective of health and well-being of the service user

  1. Mr Jones believes that being in good health is not suffering from any kind of illness or pain.
  2. He also believes that feeling good in your own body is a way of showing one’s well-being.

Perspective of Health and well-being of the service provider

  1. It is a state of physical, mental, emotional, psychological and social well-being and not just the absence of disease and sickness. (World Health Organisation)
  2. It is a way of life where individuals should be more positive towards ...

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