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Why is active participation important in health and social care?
Being engaged and responsible can improve mental awareness and an improved sense of self worth. Allowing more opportunities for further development through learning or employment. Increased independence and self confidence can lessen the scope for abuse and exploitation by others. Takes a proactive approach, providing the right level of support to the individual. Builds on the individual’s existing skills and supports them to develop new ones. Provides the individual with more choice, increasing their sense of control over their own life. Consequently, Active Support provides conditions in which challenging behaviour generally decreases, particularly by improving people’s quality of life: helping people to develop new skills, gain self- confidence and experience choice and control. Participation helps to break the mentality of dependence which character- izes much development work and, as a result. promotes self-awareness and confidence and causes rural people to examine their problems and to think positively about solutions.
What are the principles of active participation in health and social care?
Active participation has two key principles underpinning care: the rights of the individual and the independence or autonomy of the individual. The individual is encouraged and shown ways in which they can help themselves develop, be healthier or recover from illness. Participation is an umbrella term for any activity where the general public are involved in developing health and social care services (McGrow, 2011). By involving people in decisions about their health and care we will improve health and wellbeing, improve the quality of care and ensure people make informed use of available healthcare resources. Involving people in their own health and care not only adds value to people’s lives, it creates value for the taxpayer. Person-centred care is important for patients because: You will meet their emotional, social, and practical needs, which ensures they maintain a high quality of life. You can support those who may not be able to directly communicate their wants and needs. Students need to see participation as a skill that they can practice and strengthen to value it. The Gillis (2019) framework does just that. Types of social care and support include: help at home from a paid carer. meals on wheels. having home adaptations.
What is the role of active participation?
Active participation includes the competences that citizens need to reach a level of awareness of themselves in relation to the environments they are plunged into, in order to take sensible decisions and participate actively and positively in the democratic cultures they live in. Participation occurs when consumers, carers and community members are meaningfully involved in decision making about health policy and planning, care and treatment, and the wellbeing of themselves and the community. The main aim of public participation is to encourage the public to have meaningful input into the decision-making process. Public participation thus provides the opportunity for communication between agencies making decisions and the public. Principle of participation: Every child shall have a right to be heard and to participate in all processes and decisions affecting his interest and the child’s views shall be taken into consider- ation with due regard to the age and maturity of the child. Sarah White distinguishes four forms of participation: nominal, instrumental, representative and transformative. By encouraging public participation in projects that impact society it facilitates fair, equitable, and sustainable outcomes. It is an essential decision-making process for any organization, government, or individual that is driving projects which will have an impact on the community.
What is the advantage of active participation?
More specifically, active participation: Improves an individual’s self-esteem, self-confidence and self-awareness. Being able to be in control of decision-making gives people a sense of autonomy over their lives. They will feel valued, know that they have a voice and be able to influence the quality of their care. Social participation affects physical and mental health and is especially important for older adults. Health benefits include better quality of life, living longer and a decreased risk of acquiring a disability, depression, anxiety or dementia. It promotes sustainable decisions by recognizing and communicating the needs and interests of all participants – including decision makers. This increases acceptance of decisions and community commitment to outcomes as local knowledge from diverse groups shapes and creates inclusive, effective solutions. Every moment has potential: Utilising the activities that need to be done (such as housework, shopping, work or gardening) and those that are available to do (such as visiting friends or relatives, playing sport or adult education) to support people to be engaged throughout the day.
How do you promote active participation in care?
Fully in control of who should and should not be present when their needs are being assessed and discussed. Able to choose who supports them by being involved in selecting and interviewing their personal assistants and key workers and using independent advocates when they require support. Having the service user be involved in the planning and practice of their own care and support is a way of enabling them to actively participate. They should be able to discuss their preferences and make choices in how and when their care is delivered, breaking down any barriers in communication to enable this. These are the guiding principles that help to put the interests of the individual receiving care or support at the centre of everything we do. Examples include: individuality, independence, privacy, partnership, choice, dignity, respect and rights. Duty of Care is about individual wellbeing , welfare, compliance and good practice.
What is active support in health and social care?
Active Support refers to the type of support provided – support that turns person centred plans into person centred action. Active Support changes the style of support from ‘caring for’ to ‘working with’, it promotes independence and supports people to take an active part in their own lives. Active Support is a model of support which ensures that people are supported to participate in every aspect of their daily lives and to take the lead in functional and meaningful activities – staff essentially becoming enablers not carers. Active Support empowers people with a disability to do things for themselves when possible, rather than a staff member doing it on their behalf. Support staff also make sure they customise their supports for each individual based on their needs. More specifically, active participation: Improves an individual’s self-esteem, self-confidence and self-awareness. Being able to be in control of decision-making gives people a sense of autonomy over their lives. They will feel valued, know that they have a voice and be able to influence the quality of their care. Active participation includes the competences that citizens need to reach a level of awareness of themselves in relation to the environments they are plunged into, in order to take sensible decisions and participate actively and positively in the democratic cultures they live in.