LO2 Flashcards
Dementia
A condition with a collection of symptoms including difficulties with language, memory, concentration, planning. It is caused when the brain is damaged and it’s a progressive disease.
Health settings
Include practitioners and organisations that provide services such as consultants, doctors, nurses, midwifes.
Homelessness
Does not only refer to individuals who do not have a home to live in but also people who are living somewhere where they have no legal rights (temporarily with friends)
Lack of capacity
When individuals are unable to make their own decision about their care and treatment due to not having the mental capacity due to having, for example, a learning disability.
Learning disability
A significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information or to learn new skills with a lasting effect on development.
Looked after children
Refers to children who are looked after or under the care of the local authority. They might be living in a number of settings like foster parents or residential children’s settings.
Physical disabilities
Having a physical impairment that has a long term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. For example, they can take longer to complete a daily task
Safeguarding
Protecting individuals rights to live free from abuse and neglect and promoting wellbeing. For children it involves ensuring that they live in environments that provide safe and effective care and protecting them from anything harmful. It is everyone’s responsibility.
Sensory impairment
A loss in vision, hearing or both which includes partial loss or deafblindness.
Social care settings
Include professionals and organisations that provide care, support and protection to adults in need or at risk. Includes support workers caring and supporting older people.
