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C K replied to Samuel Oluwatobiloba Owa
Hi. Sorry can you rephrase this question please? I cannot understand it because there is no QR code. A QR code is a big box shaped icon. Where is the QR code?
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Sometimes a resident in the home cannot recognise a toilet, even with a seat in a colour that distinguishes it from the surroundings.
They might say to the carer, "No! There is no toilet here. This is a lounge. It is not a bathroom, this isn't a bathroom! I am not going to go to the toilet here". This can lead to passing waste in inappropriate areas. ... -
After 6 months of thought - I conclude that I urgently needed to see and understand these photos taken by a victim; reflecting on them has matured me and changed my life.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that affects people's behaviour. People with ADHD can seem restless, may have trouble concentrating and may act on impulse.
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C K replied to Kamati JOhannes
One of the students recommended this man's writings and I agree - it's a clarifying blog
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I am in the UK as well. I managed to access it via this link. (I could not access it via the hyperlinks.)
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Are these ideals or have specific schools actually shown evidence that they have already achieved these?
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Very good sum up by course writers.
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C K replied to Elżbieta Michalik
Perhaps you could try a different test? I am sure there are many designs of tests. However these tests not supposed to be a diagnosis.
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@VeraAchieng absolutely right Vera
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Side opening trousers - what a great idea!
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C K replied to Paul Midgley
The local university do not assess the practical skills of self-employed staff because assessors cannot enter a private home owned by a member of the public.
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Platforms have sprung up of databases of unqualified carers (with only e-learning certificates) that allow families to employ a carer directly by picking the carer from their online profile. If you check on CQC you will see Introductory Agencies don't provide care so are not covered by regulations. Check the difference between the cost per week for the...
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I think we have a duty of care to the public. If we do not exercise the duty of care by withdrawing and reporting we are an accomplice.
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It's absolutely clear - your great great grandparents didn't do it, your great grandparents didn't do it, your grandparents didn't do it and your parents didn't do it. So you can't do it either. Everyone has to abide by the law and they always have. There are no new exceptions for you.
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C K replied to Charlie Tye
@CharlieTye that seems to be a classic example of history being rewritten by the historians to serve an agenda. My grandmother told me about how the communities adored their policemen back in 1905. If a policeman was killed on duty, communities would be sad for years and years, and constantly provide food and other necessities from their own table for the...
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Oh my goodness I strongly disagree. My grandmother told me about how the communities adored their policemen back in 1905. If a policeman was killed on duty, communities would be sad for years and years, and constantly provide food and other necessities from their own table for the widow and children. At a policeman's funeral the streets were lined with...
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Can someone please comment on this which I am extrapolating from the course information.
So individuals are free to hire anyone they want with or without qualifications to provide care for their loved one.
If any form of accident or abuse occurs the carer that is in court and being judged may be found guilty despite this, because the judgement is not...
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A man on LinkedIn says this:
[The NHS in the UK has] annual patient claims for malpractice of £1.63 billion and a 86% Prosecution success rate.
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"Was the treatment below the standard of care and skill that a reasonable professional would have provided in the same circumstances?"
This is the key point.
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Post Bawa-Garba: how do we detoxify the climate of fear?https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1308/rcsbull.2018.325?mobileUi=0 [accessed 24/Oct/23]
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C K replied to Lesley Thomson
@LesleyThomson I am very saddened by what you are suffering in this situation.
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Interesting:
Quote from section: The classic intentional tort in medical practice is forcing unwanted medical care on a patient. The care may benefit the patient, but if it was refused and the health professional has no state mandate to force care on the patient, the patient may sue for the intentional tort of battery. -
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I don't know. I have never found resources with statistics or information.
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C K replied to Meghna Vikram
Absolutely. I agree.
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It's more complicated than it seems at first glance.
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See this link for exemptions and exceptions https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/20220517%20Scope%20of%20Registration%20Guidance%20May%202022.pdf [accessed 23/Oct/23]
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Many big customer service companies take advantage of loop holes in the UK Parliamentary Acts.
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Australia
The Guardian reports that Australia is building more and more prisons despite crime rates decreasing.
Incarceration is preferred over community service.
Reoffending is on the increase. Therefore although first time crime is decreasing, the reoffending figures show rehabilitation procedures in prison are failing.
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I have a health care background. Even if a local care home is more luxurious than their own home, most elderly people would prefer to be free and independent and in their own home.
From this I conclude that "nice" prison facilities would not cause people to commit crimes. Loss of liberty is generally avoided by everyone. -
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At the very least people in prison need furniture that does not cause them joint problems.
Cramped conditions makes a cramped body which causes aches, pains and wear and tear of joints.
People who have to constantly use the same badly designed furniture get musculoskeletal problems and pain.
Physical pain wrecks the process of rehabilitation.
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UNDERSTAFFING
More recognition of prison staff who excel at their job - posters, badges, media articles, awards.
In the next section 1.12 a quiz question is as follows:
*To what extent do you think corrupt staff contribute to drugs entering prisons?
*Staff bringing in drugs is the main way for drugs to come in to prisons. Richard Peake Lead Educator says,... -
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Maybe put anonymous counsellors / chaplains / advocates at the entrance taking visitor into a fair reasonable space and explaining the risks of drug use in prison (e.g. increase in violence) offering them an anonymous amnesty to hand over their intended drug package.
Drugs lead to slavery because addicts can go into debt bondage to drug dealers who require...
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C K replied to Victoria Idowu
Yes. I agree. Thank you for sharing.
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I think this is an interesting piece of equipment to support people who need to drink water with their medication.
LIQUID LEVEL INDICATOR
This device makes a bleeping noise and/or vibrates when the level of liquid in a cup, mug or glass has reached a certain level.
You slot it onto the side of the glass or mug and then you can pour into the glass. When the... -
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Wow lovely doctor - wish he was my doctor!!!
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Am I wrong to think the doctor in this video was quite empathic??!!!??? He wasn't particularly personable, but throughout the appointment he communicated an immense interest in diagnosing the ailments with the genuine intention of healing the ailments.
He could have taken a lot more opportunities to empathise with the person who has the ailment. ... -
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I would like to say that I worked with teenagers as a key worker during Covid, and contrary to the way they are commonly perceived, their empathy and kindness towards their parents, their peers, and even adult staff was remarkable and humbling.
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I agree that this activity offers an opportunity for people to be together with others who they like, that they would normally feel shy with.
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"When there is a tangible connection between people, something that is authentic and meaningful to those involved, you create a space where there is a freedom for creative expression..."
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Q: How important is it that dementia sufferers get the opportunity to learn new skills?
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She said the workhouse in 1905 was nothing like as bad as the three months NOT in the workhouse when the man spent his times wishing he could beg in the gutters but was too frightened to be a vagrant because begging was illegal and wasted the time of the police officers who were very busy dealing with crimes.
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Workhouses: I have been noticing for years that it has been forgotten by the writers of history that workhouses in Glasgow Scotland had a limit of 3 months before you had to leave. People didn't want to leave the workhouse! The situation was that a man could sell himself to a workhouse for three months and he would get his wages to send to his family at home...
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* The NHS has the potential to change the world through being an example of a policial movement in front of the world nations. (Can't quite put that into one word, but I hope you get my meaning).
* Source of support
* Medical intervention
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C K replied to Anna Pesala
I told a lady last week that I come across as mothering but I mother everyone of all ages in all states of well-being. I even mother young healthy adults!
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C K replied to Barbara K-S
I strongly agree with training.
It's unbelievable anyone has strongly disagreed!People think that sensory impairment only affects the senses.
I learnt through training and experience that sensory impairment has an impact on all aspects of living.
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C K replied to Kathleen Walker
Me too!
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I don't recall anything on this course about people with visual impairments having problems with the blister packs. The tablets can get stuck inside the packs - especially the tiny tablets. I have come in to a service user (who only gets a morning and evening visit) to find one of their lunchtime tablets still in the blister pack. The tablet gets lodged...
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C K replied to Joanne Sutherland
The eye drop equipment is great! I must get these for my service users.
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The Accessible Information Standard (AIS) for patients and carers suggests arrangements for a translator can help.
Deaf blind people flourish with a support worker to remind everyone around how to be kind and reasonable to the service user.
Finger spelling is an opinion for translating.
I knew the loveliest man ever, with an amazing smile, but people were... -
Yes that is true. I have assisted elderly and you g adults with visual impairments and hearing impairments.
A young person will give me lists of instructions about their personal needs e.g. put my hairbrush there, put my table there, put the medication on the side of the table next to the light switch.
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The inhalers could be decorated with textile stickers. Traditionally people with visual impairments are given felt stickers for crafts card making. The service user could put felt stickers in one inhaler.
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@PatriciaBarr I watched it too. It was very realistic.
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Arti Prashar: "...I think if some of the budgets that are given over to pharmaceuticals and pharmacies, even half a percent of that budget was given over to a creative budget, I think you would see an incredible impact on not just people living with dementia but the staff as well, because I think well-being is really important in the social care sector and in...
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Howarth: "...he has produced evidence that his patients who have been referred to an artist rather than prescribed, say, antidepressants, taken over time, are making 37% less demands for visits to their GP and 27% less hospital admissions."
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I did not realise that other people's gambling was indirectly affecting me so much. I live in an inner city that you might describe as poverty stricken. If gambling affects at least 6 people around each gambler, then I must be pushed and pulled by the harm caused by gambling all the time. I chat to everyone, I work in health and social care, I access the...
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* Peer support groups for children affected by gambling, like Glebe Youth Service.
* Adapting academic frameworks about gambling harm to focus on interconnected factors (e.g. sociocultural factors) instead of only the individual person who gambles.
* preventing unhelpful 'blame and shame' messages to gamblers during training sessions.
* making development... -
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I recommend Professor Simon Chapman's article. It is a very stimulating piece of writing. I learnt something new, even from the first paragraph.
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There has to be a Public Health approach to gambling. No individual can curb the effects of $270 million of advertising per year in Australia alone. What is the worldwide spend I wonder?
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In section 2.2 of this course we are told these are the types of harm caused by gambling:
financial
relationship difficulties
increase in aggression
health problems
mental distress
work and study problems
culture & community in disarray
criminal activityThe case studies in the video in this section 2.4 shows people overcoming relationship...
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Langham, E., Thorne, H., Browne, M., Donaldson, P., Rose, J. & Rockloff, M. 2016. Understanding gambling related harm: a proposed definition, conceptual framework, and taxonomy of harms. BMC Public Health, 16, 80.
I looked at this recommended article. The writers point out that the harm caused by gambling is subjective. For example loneliness, depression,...
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With vast investments in advertising for gambling, and people's vulnerability to the rewards of gambling (especially children), if Artificial Intelligence AI is designed in to boost consumption of gambling, our communities will be in danger.
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C K replied to Amber Roberts
@AmberRoberts I skim read the recommended report by
Dr Charles Livingstone, 'How electronic gambling
machines work.
EGM structural characteristics'.
On page 10 it says "Melodies for EGMs are typically composed for purpose and will vary to reflect the scale of the
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It's concerning that in 2020, over $270 million was spent on gambling advertising in Australia. The amount of advertising an individual is seeing isn't easily recognised by relatives and friends because the advertising is on the smartphone.
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C K replied to Amber Roberts
@JazmynSangha @AmberRoberts
I think that the C for Constructive might be the most important.
I think you have to @ each other. I got a very curious, constructive, and compassionate reply from a lady on a different futurelearn course and I only saw it later because she hadn't put the @ in to the reply. -
C K replied to Ngoc-Minh Lu
@Ngoc-MinhLu thank you for your contribution. Have you found people on FutureLearn who you have learned from? I like to follow people who have a life story that is a learning source to me.
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Misdiagnosis in consultation can disrupt peer support groups.
If the woman is incorrectly diagnosed with something (when it is DVA that is the cause) the peer support group for the medical disorder can be upset by their peer being unfamiliar to them. They listen to her but think, "That's not quite right, something is going on, I don't understand" which is...
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I recall conversations with older deaf clients who have cried when I have told them that their lunchtime tablets are still on the table and now it's teatime.
It's very upsetting because they say, "Oh no! Again! That's because I haven't heard her tell me they are there and she's told me and forgotten I am deaf. I have told her if she tells me when she has her... -
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Older people with visiting care workers are very clever even if they have dementia! I was a visiting carer until 2018.
Many of the sighted clients reported carers who did not adhere to correct procedures. When the senior staff visited they would tell them straight away if corners had been cut.
Unfortunately the older people with visual impairments were... -
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The pharmacist could start by saying, "This the pharmacy staff ringing about your medication. Is this a convenient time to speak to you?"
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It says this section is for "team members to ensure communication is clear and effective".
It's really important for people to have empathy and remember that all people have dignity.
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You are a wonderful and interesting person Jan. I am grateful for your posts.
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C K replied to Susan Burgess
I had a lovely experience. I went into a hospital ward one year to sing Christmas carols. On one ward suddenly all the nurses burst into tears which was unexpected.
There was whispering and moving around and surreptitious alarm pressing.
Apparently a man who had a medical history that had not been shared with the nurses and was presumed to be non-verbal... -
C K replied to Susan Burgess
Wow. Very inspiring!
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Quoted from section 1.4 (this is on 1.2).
But he [Bill] became very frightened to do that himself and he really needed someone with him. At that time, he was no longer able to paint.I am employed to stay with someone who needs to have someone with them. Perhaps I am employed after the stage in which Arts can be explored?
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I have come back to this course after a long break so I am starting again from the beginning. I couldn't take any of my learning into real life. I am a care assistant for people with dementia. I joined this course years ago.
Recently I worked out my problem.
I only get to work with people with severe symptoms because prior to that it is too expensive to... -
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The video "starting the conversation" is very helpful. (The link is at the last paragraph of this section.)
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In 1929 Lee Miller moved to Paris and began working for the French edition of Vogue.
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Drinking "like a man" is a problem.
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I would like to support Jan's contribution by saying that institutionalisation is a mental health disorder. It is when someone begins to mistakenly attribute paternalistic thoughts to an authority figure who is simply doing their job and is not feeling paternal emotions.
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Gosh Jan I didn't see your reply until now today. This contribution was not lightly flung off my keyboard. It comes from years of careful thought. Thank you for contemplating what I have explained.
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"In concluding their results, this paper argues for the value of keeping gender norms and challenging their violent investment" quoted from above.
Men's aggressive behaviour towards women can be fueled by anger they feel TOWARDS MEN who do not agree with the gender norms they believe in.
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There is another influence on this: the aesthetic physical side of coercive control.
The perpetrator sees that they are aesthetically affected by being abusive. They look in the mirror and see their skin is flushed, their eye pupils are bigger and blacker, their breath is moving in their chest in a particular way. They find the way they look in the mirror... -
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The victim cannot describe their pain logically therefore the responders need to be able to understand the aggressors tactics.
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Good point
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In 2021 I was helped by a dedicated coronavirus pandemic Health and Social Care Counsellor because they had a phone line open for professional carers to receive specialist support. Unfortunately that is not available for me now I am in England, and coronavirus is over.
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I have thought about the Holocaust all my life because I was brought up by my grandmother who was born in 1899.
I have had no formal education about it (a big question mark over my so called excellent all girls school British education 1978-1990).
I wondered endlessly "why?" "how?" "what happened?". I started this course thinking "what does it mean that...
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I am in tears.
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I will return to this futurelearn course in a few months to give you a further reflection.
All I can say today in answer to your question, is thank you, I needed to see these four photos along with information about who this man was and how he took the photos.
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I am profoundly impacted by the vast amount of communication in the photos by the Jewish man inside Auschwitz.
I am sure my whole life has been changed by seeing these photos.
My grandmother constantly talked about the two world wars. I could hardly get five minutes of conversation from her about any topic without hearing this sentence, "of course, it...
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I think that covers everything???!!!