Effective Care and Quality of Life
Effective care is nothing but the procedures and the techniques which are used by the individuals, professional and the medical centres for providing effective services. The individual has to take care of themselves by improving their living standard and this can be done by adopting various techniques of effective care. Such care is designed on the basis of the needs and wants of the individual as per the knowledge and skills posed by them. The professional are required to adopt various effective methods which can help them in providing various beneficial services to the patients. This report is prepared in this context and it includes various factors which are required by an individual to have a better quality of life. Along with this the various caring techniques are discussed and the constraints are identified which can affect the positive care.
Quality of life refers to the individuals and societies well-being that outlines the positive as well as negative characteristics of life. It detects life satisfaction along with physical health, employment, safety, education, family, wealth as well as security to freedom, environment and religious beliefs. There are several factors that are related with the good quality of life of individuals that leads their effective life ahead. Some of these aspects are considered which includes – Choices, this can be made by a person in order to ascertain a quality of life as it shows various choices like employment, career, education as well as character of friends and society in which they live. This will influence the individuals quality of life as well as their mental, physical and social health. Privacy, it is considered as an ability of a person for sharing their personal information to a selected people which they want. This assists them in protecting or securing their personal, confidential as well as significant informations form getting abused (Jinks, 2018). Guidance, it is considered as a most suitable factor which is closely related to the better quality life as it is related to the proper guidance. It could be come from mentors, parents as well as close relatives who are accountable towards directing persons in order to how to live good quality of life. For instance, mainly guidance is needed related to the proper and timely diet. Within the context of this, care professionals could appropriately direct patients such as when they are needed to take meals, benefits and side effects of foods and so on. In addition, medicine and proper treatments are other factor that could be provided to the patients. Responsibility, it indicates that how an individual is protective about themselves in order to ensure better quality of life. Patient must be liable to take proper care of their lifestyles as it helps in overcoming from its ailments effectively. This could be accomplished by facilitating providing correct education to person's about the harmful features which includes sugar added food, smoking, drinking and many more (Holloway and Galvin, 2016). Provision of care, in order to maintain a good quality life of individual it needs effective intervention of health and social care professionals. Within the patients, even they become healthy or recovered with treatments still they required care by a proper network of care in order to maintain better lifestyles that is related with the superior quality of life as well as health considerations. Parenting, it is associated with the inducing positive as well as effective practices within the individual since their childhood stage. For this, parents plays an important role to make sure that their child leads an active life that is comprehensive of proper diet, sleep as well as physical exercise and ensure their better quality of life. Superintendence, it is related to the effective quality of life as it is associated with the adequate arrangements of many activities that facilitates a better life quality. For instance, many health carers and institutions could set up awareness camps that helps in promoting the benefits or losses relates to the individual's present lifestyles. National health organisation in UK organises various programs which helps the people in tacking with the issue of obesity (Hardy and White, 2016). Social interaction, with the help of social interaction the individual can improves their quality of life as they provides them guidance. Also they inspires them to be conscious for the health and for their well being. In social gathering the individual meet with so many people from which they learn various ways that can improves their life. Various people from the family, peers and social circles are gathered which has a significant influence on the individual. It can improves the mind set of the patients as they be motivated with the lifestyle of that of the other people as provide support to them positively. Security, the security factor contributes a lot in improving the quality of the life as the security make the individual feels confident and comfortable in every environment. The security can be in terms of mental and cognitive process which facilitates in promoting the health of the individual. The most important security which is required is physical and psychological security as it contributes in making the individual feel safe. Thus it improves their mental health which ultimately contributes to the quality of the life.
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All the individual have the needs to develop, grow and to maintain a better and healthy lifestyle. For this various heath care centres need to identify and adopt various techniques which can provide the effective services. Such techniques offers various advantage to the people as this will improve their mindset, develops healthy relations with them, recommends various course of actions etc. The key caring techniques which can be used for effective care are- Showing approval, in this care taking technique the care worker are expected to provide positive responses to the people by smiling while responding the people. Also they can praise them by providing them remarks such as 'well done'. The care must be visible as this motivate the people to overcome the disability, illness or vulnerability which they are facing. Communication, the communication is must to provide an effective care to the individual as with the help of this they can share the thoughts, information, experiences etc. On the basis of which the care taker attend the patients and provide care to them. This techniques is directly linked with the leadership in the healthcare organisation as they communicate with the other who will then cater the individual with well versed behaviour (Kondasani and Panda, 2015). Creating trust, trust must be developed by the care taker with the patients by building relations with them, by maintaining the level of confidentiality which make the individual believes the reliability of the care taker in context of the procedure which is followed by them. This technique guides the reliable behaviour of the care taker as they keep their promises. Gaining compliance, the helps to making someone agree for a recommendation action which implies that the care worker guides the individual to do what is necessary for them. They cannot force them to do but have option to comply with what is being recommended by them. But generally they understand its required on grounds of thrust and follows the same which is being guided by the care taker. Social perception, this is the perception that the care taker can accurately understand the feeling, intentions and requirements of the individual. They generally analyse the gestures, tone in which the individual communicate with them etc. which helps them to understand the what they want to convey. The perception which are formulated may be accurate or inaccurate which depends upon the effectiveness of the communication (Martin and Sutton, Eds., 2015). This caring techniques suggest that false assumptions must not be formulated as it can affect the procedure of caring. Observation, observation is another key technique which fall into two broad category such as medical observation and visual observation. In medical observation the analysis of the temperature of the patients, their blood pressure, analysis of body mass index etc. are included. While in visual observation changes in the behaviour of the individual, their food intake are taken into consideration. On the basis of such observation the individuals are taken care off (Miller and Mills, 2019). Distraction, this technique is used by the care taker to manage the pain and anxiety faced by the individual for a temporary period. It is believed that if the focus is on the pain then the discomfort increases for which the distraction is must so that the impact of pain and anxiety can be reduced. The better care taker makes the individual learn various distraction techniques with the help of which they can distract on their own such as the women can be taught to sing rhymes which will help them to distract their pain. Physical contact, with the help of touching a hand, the caring attitude can be displayed. It helps the individual to feel relax and emotionally secure while a direct eye contact with a smile as it reflects the approval in any situation. This techniques of care taking is most suitable in case the individual is emotionally sick and is anxious as this provides a sense of emotional security (NS884, Rasmussen and Wiechula, 2017). Modelling, this techniques of care taking is associated with reflecting socially acceptable behaviour which can influence others to follow the same or to act in similar way. The care takers always appears with a happy face which motivates an individual to be cheerful and make them feel positive. It makes the people to imitate the behaviour of other by making them role model and this improves their behaviour which reduces various problems faced by them. Encouraging adaptive behaviour, this is related with promoting the well being of the users of the service by reinforcing their well being and health. Maladaptive are the services which has adverse impact on the service users as it create a hostile environment. Various maladaptive behaviour includes consumption of drugs, alcohol etc.
It is important to show the caring with the help of various techniques such as encouraging adaptive behaviour, reducing negative behaviour etc. But they are affected by various barriers such as different in the mentality of the individuals, environmental issues, stereotyping and many more. It is important for the individuals and the care takers to understand the barriers so that they can eliminate them on time (Shah, 2016). Various such constraints to positive caring includes- Developmental progress, the developmental process becomes the barriers as this determines the level of understanding of the people. On the basis of the developmental process they determines the need of effective caring as this broaden their mindset. But if the developmental process and level is not adequate then it becomes barriers in positive caring. Language and cultural difference, due to difference in the languages and the culture their exist a lack of understanding and this becomes barriers in positive caring, as it affects the communication. The difference in language and culture leads to lack of understanding among the care takers and the individual (Tyler, 2017). Attitude, the attitude of the individual has impact on the positive caring as for effective caring the individuals need to have alike mindset so that various techniques can be adopted by the care takers. The perception are made for them which can affect the behaviour as this is the attitude of the individual that if one can understand them then they are effective otherwise not. Distress and emotions, the emotions becomes the barriers for the individuals as this can affect them adversely. Due to strong emotions they may not share their problems with the care taker which becomes the barrier for them to provides effective care. The emotions put the individual in the situation where they cannot share their thoughts, this put them under extreme stress which leads to depression (Gluyas, 2015). Lack of privacy, due to the factors of the privacy people do not share their thoughts and issues faced by them which is why their problems does not resolved. All such problems put people in a situation of stress where they neither can share their problems not they can share them. This becomes the barriers for providing positive care. It is generally faced by the women as they do not share all of their issues with anyone not even with the care takers. Barriers to accessing service, all the services cannot be accessed by everybody as they may not be easily available to them at their location. This becomes a major barriers as people suffers from various issues for which they requires special assistance and guidance but they can take because of lack of availability. Psychological barriers, psychological barriers leads to differences in the opinion of the individual due to which they faces lack of understanding. This becomes the barrier for the positive caring as the perception and the mindset varies among them. It makes difficult for the care takers to convince the patients as they have lack of understanding (Bush, 2016). Resources barriers, the resources are the barriers which can affects the positive caring as the individual requires various funds to get the services. Due to lack of services they cannot take the effective services this affects their health and the well being of the individual. This reduces the life of the people and has impact on the overall economy as it affects their individuals.
Conclusion
It is concluded from the above report that effective care is crucial for enhancing the quality of the life of the people. This helps to improves the mental and the physical heath of the individuals for their well being. Various factors need to be considered which can contribute to the improved quality of the life of individual. The healthcare organisation has to adopt various care taking techniques which can help them to improves the services they are proving to the individuals. Along with this various barriers are to be identified so that they can be reduced and their impact can be managed effectively. This will help the organisations and the professional to improve the quality of the life of the individuals.