1.What is the main purpose of privacy legislation?
Assessor Comments:Please just leave this in your next answer: Privacy legislation suggested that it basically promote and protected the privacy of individuals and regulate the government agencies and organisations that handle the personal information.
2.Read the case study. What personal care support does Jeremy need? As Jeremy’s personal care worker, how would you encourage his participation and independence?
Case Study
Jeremy has dementia. He now ignores his personal hygiene and is incontinent. He will follow simple instructions.
Assessor Comments:Please read the case study and list all of the personal care support Jeremy needs. Then write how would you encourage his participation and independence.
3.Read the case study. As a personal care worker, how could you support Jaydia with this problem?
Case Study
Jaydia is very hard of hearing. He wears hearing aids that assist, but he still has difficulty hearing. He finds his deafness very socially isolating and tends to withdraw.
Assessor Comments:Jaydia is a male.(a him) Please write about how you can support him with his hearing,communication and social activities. Please write practical strategies.
4.Read the case study. How will Hamish’s ‘dignity of risk’ influence the life he has left to him?
Case Study
Hamish is dying of cancer. There is a treatment available but he chooses not to go ahead with it saying that he does not wish to prolong his life. He decides he is going to travel and do some things he has always wanted to do but never has. He has planned a tandem sky dive and white water rafting. He seems the happiest he has been since his diagnosis
Assessor Comments:Please leave this in your next answer as it is correct: Hamishs dignity of risk should be respected and he should be given the option of doing some of these activities while being put in a palliative care facility. If Hamish wants to go out and live freely, then it is his choice to satisfied own self.
5.What types of community participation do you think is important so an aged person can engage socially and undertake their tasks of daily living? What challenges are there?
Participating in the community is important for many people. As people age, community engagement can often become more difficult.
Think of a person you know who is elderly or imagine yourself as elderly and frail.
Assessor Comments:Please think of older people generally and list all the types of community participation and social interaction that they might enjoy. (Please list activities in the community rather than in a service eg shopping.) Then write about the challenges for them to complete those activities.(eg Transport)
6.Choose one of the challenges that you identified in the previous question. What support could be given to someone so they can continue their community participation?
Assessor Comments:Please leave this in your next answer: They can be provided with a special transport vehicle to lift them in and out of the car or taxi as this is the safest way of arriving without getting injured. Leave this and add another strategy for Transport.
7.List three indicators of physical abuse of the elderly.
Assessor Comments:Please just leave this in your next answer: physical injuries like broken bones physical problems such as bed sores weight loss on the basis of malnutrition or dehydration
8.If you suspected that a client was being abused, where would you find advice on how to report it?
Assessor Comments:Please leave this in your next answer as it is correct: We can contact the office for the ageing and they can investigate if their is any abuse occurring. Or we can even call the police if we are sure that their is abuse. Leave this and answer :Who would you report it to at your workplace.