Changing Residential Care

Changing Residential Care

Change Practice in Residential Care

Introduction

Disability has existed since the beginning of humanity. A mid-twentieth century work is done on the care of people with disabilities, highlighting their potential for rehabilitation and development of skills through the implementation of a program with procedures that enable their integration into social life. These institutions have always had a volunteer, which in most cases; do not have adequate training to provide quality care to people with needs (Albinsson & Strang, 2002, pp.313-22).

That is why today, the training and development activities in the area of care for people with needs should not only apply to employees engaged in special education and nurses, but also to all those that in one way or another are involved in caring for them. In this sense, must be central to any society, the comprehensive care of the individual, taking into account that it is responsible for transmitting knowledge, values and cultural traditions to be men of integrity, training them in terms of attitudes, skills that are required to achieve optimum performance within society.

In the world, there are 650 million disabled people, equivalent to 8 to 10 percent of the population. Approximately two thirds live in developing countries. In some areas, almost 20 percent of the total population has a disability. According to World Health Organization (WHO), there are 1.3 million disabled people in UK. The number of disabled people continues to rise as the world's population does. All over the world, people with special needs often face a life of discrimination and degradation, without help, many live in isolation and insecurity.

People with disabilities have needs similar to any other person evolving society in regard to the need for a bed and covered. However, what characterizes these people at the needs of residential services is the need for assistance for integration in a residential setting within the community promoting development of interactions and interpersonal quality, sharing the same living spaces and uses the aforementioned services as any other member of the community (Anderson &Hussey, 2000, pp. 191-203).

Today, the majority of people with intellectual disabilities are living in the community. However, the quality of their integration is challenged by inadequate resources and an inadequacy of existing measures in relation to the real needs of people. At least, that seeks to show this document while providing a package of measures to correct gaps in the range of existing services in residential facilities.

Problematic Area

Note that most current residents in homes are high-dependency, which requires a lot of care and their care create stress and overload. Not always staffed residences and the appropriate means, which favours overload on cares, leading to abusive situations occurring within the centre residential. Unlike other types of abuse, institutional abuse is usually caused by negligence and may produce in private and public but is more common in private institutions.

The elderly abuses, especially abuse institutionalized, are produced by the interaction of several factors: factors institution's structural, personal factors that assume the care, and finally the ...