Safeguarding In The Health and Social Care

Question: Understanding the factors that contribute to the incidents of abuse and harm to self and others (500 words) continuing from the case scenario in Task ,A what you must do - In the third section of your report, LINKING your answers to the case scenario give a clear analysis of the impact of social and cultural factors on different types of abuse and /or harm to self and others. Answer: Reasons for some people becoming more vulnerable to abuse and harm This section of the paper deals with the reasons that why some people like Mrs. P and others can be more vulnerable to abuse and harm to self as well as to others. The Dementia is the term used for those patients who have unstable mental conditions. It is not any particular disease, but a group of symptoms belongs to this category. It is a chronic as well as persistent disease of the mental systems caused by several brain disorders or sudden brain injuries. The symptoms of this disorders are like memory loss, change in the personality, and reasoning impairment. According to this report, Mrs. P is recently diagnosed in the year 2011 with the disease of Dementia. Thus, she as well as people very similar to her are seriously mentally unstable and could not take proper care of them. They seriously lack their memory power. They also lack the capacity to give attention or pay focus on individual items, as well as they, lack the ability to make proper judgments about the right and wrong. The primary cause of this disorder is the severe damage to the cells in the brain. If at a particular region of the brain, cells get damaged and lost the function then the entire area lost the coordination. This sudden and severe loss locks the ability of the cells in the brain to communicate and pass signals between each other. Thus, when there is no proper coordination between the cells in the brain the brain malfunctions. Because of this malfunctioning a divergence occurs to form the normal going that affect the normal behavior and feeling of the person (Abbott et al., 2013). This disorder is a result of depression, excessive mental stress, lack of proper diet and nutrition and excessive or improper medications (Randall, 2013). Abuse means to use anything for any negative purpose which is harmful whereas, harm ways to damage both the physical and the mental peace of any person. Since these patients always suffer from a memory loss, they are mostly vulnerable to abuse and harm. If they fail to remember where they have kept their purse or wallet during paying bills, forget to pay bills or make unnecessary arguments, or do not remember certain items during planning or preparing dishes or while traveling in new areas, they will be abused by other people. They usually lack the capacity to provide the required attentions in a particular work. Thus, become more prone to violence. They do not have the abilities to differentiate between the right and wrong and fail to make judgments. For this, they may harm themselves like by committing suicide for being unable to take the mental pressure or for other stresses related to family or outside world. They may even hurt themselves by using harmful items like knives. Simil arly, they may harm others for the same reason of being incapable of taking the right decisions and making proper judgments. Due to their this particular feature, they may even abuse others for no reasons or certain silly reasons (Wilkins, 2013). The risk factors leading to abuse and harm This section of the paper profoundly deals with the risk factors, which may result in the event of damage and harm to Mrs. P and other persons. Here, Mrs. P lives in Luton. She has been recently diagnosed in the year 2011 with the disease of Dementia. She and patients like her are seriously mentally unstable and could not take proper care of them. The risk factors are: Lack of proper care and judgment: Since people like Mrs. P require the proper care, they are very prone to abuse. They lack the power to remember anything correctly. The cells of the brain require good coordination among themselves. They even fail to pass the signals. Thus, the entire brain malfunctions. Patients like her forget about their daily routines and several other useful items. Due to this, they may even harm or abuse others without remembering is the person right or wrong for them. Patients like her fail to give the required attentions and focus on the particular subjects or any discussions for which they are subjected more to the abuses and harms (Toye, 2013). Patients like her lack the capacity to make proper judgments about the right and the wrong for which there all efforts to judge a person or a situation are in vain. Thereby, they take bad decisions. Others subject them to get abuse due to this, and also they abuse others for not being able to make proper decisions. They even harm themselves like committing suicide for not being able to put up with the decision they have done or understood (Singhal, 2014). Extra dependency: As the patients like Mrs. P seek to be dependent excessively due to physical unhealthiness on those with whom they live and share their life stories they get abuse and harm. Due to their unhealthy condition the person on which these patients are dependent, they feel that they are trapped in this patients. Thus, the individuals abuse and harm the patients. As a result, the patients also sometimes hurt themselves (Prince, 2013). Family problems: The prolonged family issues that any person face may prevent him or her to look for these types of patients. In particular families violence is regarded as the usual reaction to any stress (Brooker Latham, 2015). This may proceed with generations. In this case study, there were family problems because two generations, i.e., Mrs. P and her and his family, live together, and there the problems between the different generation are present. They hold different roles and values from cultural, worries and issues for which patients like Mrs. P are very prone to the risk of harm and abuse. Feeling lonely: These type of patients are subjected to isolation. They are left alone due to their of coordination power with their family. Similar things occurred with Mrs. P and other like her. As in this case study after acquiring the property from Mrs. P her son cared for his mother but as days passed the attention turned into avoidance. Her money is even misused by her son for his family. This gave a lot of pain to Mrs. P, and she undergoes depression. The impact of social and cultural factors on different types of abuse and or harm This part of the paper profoundly discusses the impact of social and cultural factors on different types of abuse and or harm to self and others. For shaping or constructing the behavior of any person, the social and cultural factors are highly responsible. These factors can even induce the use of violence. Abuse and harm of adults can occur at any place and in any type of environment (Moyer, 2013). These may be homes, hospitals even nursing homes. Usually people with physical disabilities and people who are often misused as substances. Abuse and harm to self as well as others can be termed as a single or any repeated action or when the correct action is not present. It may occur within any type of relation where there is a minute expectation of trust which can harm to any person who is vulnerable to adverse conditions (Cameron et al., 2014). Mrs. P is a victim of social disharmony. She is unable to tolerate the inhuman behavior of her own son. The "mother heart" cries for love for both her children. She wants a family where everyone would stay together and happily. She cannot bear her own son's excessive greed for money and properties. She even cannot let her son who never thinks back to force her sister to stay away from the mother. She is in a dilemma to believe this brutal truth and thus, she is becoming stressed, anxious, depressed and started to curse herself. This led to the state of trauma to such an extent that she began to lose her own identity. The different impact of social and cultural factors on different types of abuse and or harm to self and others are as follows: Lack of immunity and nutrition deficiencies: Over thinking and stress can lead to immunity problems (Johannesen LoGiudice, 2013). People generally intake proper meals when they are over-stressed which can cause dehydration, vitamin deficiency and many other problems (Moyer, 2013). This results in a breakdown of the immune system and can affect brain or nerve cells which can take anyone to severe stages of dementia. As stated in this case study, the lack of immunity and lack of proper nutrition in Mrs. P's daily diet resulted in the loss of her all wish and will to live longer. Depression: Depression is an early sign of or symptom of Dementia as it directly damaged the brain cells. Stress hormones released during this time can harm the brain and alter the volume. These results in the following common brain disorders which occur other than dementia are: brain tumor, Hypoxia which is caused due to lack of oxygen in brain tissues, Subdural Hematomas which is caused due to bleeding from the surfaces of the brain and covering the brain, Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus which is caused due to enlargement of the ventricles in the brain. As stated in this case study Mrs. P also suffered from depression as her family, i.e., her son and his family who were staying with her ignored her after taking all her properties. She was left alone at that stage of her life when she required the support, care, and loves for her family the most. This gradually generated depression in her mind. It resulted in a decline of her health condition tremendously. Age factor: The age factor plays a main role in such situation (Abbott et al., 2013). If the person as Mrs. P, who is timeworn, they hardly understand anything. She at this stage of her life lack the good efficiency to understand anything as her brain cells require the coordination between them. Medications : The use of the commonly used drugs with higher doses for a longer time due to over faith in those medicines. As well as the use of non-prescribed medicine due to the lack of anyone to help or take care of. 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