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Adult Service Users

  • 12 subtopics
  • 36 things to know
  • AS 5

What Adult Service Users covers

Adult Service Users is examined in Unit AS 5, Adult Service Users — a Double Award option, taken instead of AS 7. It covers key concepts in work with adults: need, protection, disability, empowerment and person-centred care, older people: needs and how they are met, adults with physical disabilities: needs and how they are met, adults with learning disabilities: needs and how they are met, adults living with mental ill health: needs and how they are met, health practitioners working with adult service users, social care practitioners and advocacy, reablement and the care planning cycle, the Bengoa Report and a new model of health and social care, confidentiality, safeguarding adults and whistle-blowing policies, statutory, private and voluntary provision and how it is funded and informal carers and the Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002.

Where it is assessed

AS 5

Adult Service Users — a written examination.

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The 12 subtopics

Each one has its own page. CCEA AS Health and Social Care students sit this topic in the first year.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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How can a care home meet the needs of a resident living with dementia?

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How does a speech and language therapist support an adult after a stroke?

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How does domiciliary care make it possible for an adult to remain in their own home?

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When does an adult service user need an advocate, and who might act as one?

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What are the titles of the two sections of Systems, Not Structures that set out the case and the vision?

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Why do most adult service users rely on statutory provision rather than buying care privately?

Evaluation

Give two weaknesses of private provision.

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Why is an informal carer often the first to notice that an adult's needs are changing?

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What is meant by a need in health and social care?

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What is a physical disability?

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Name two conditions associated with a learning disability.

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What is meant by mental ill health?

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How long does a period of reablement usually last?

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What is a policy in a health and social care organisation?

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Who set out the taxonomy of social need, and what are its four categories?

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Which four groups of need are used to describe a service user's circumstances?

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Name three physical needs of an adult with a physical disability.

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How does a learning disability differ from a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia?

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Name three conditions that fall within mental ill health.

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How does a physiotherapist support an adult service user to regain independence after a fall?

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How does reablement differ from traditional home care?

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What is the title of the report produced by the expert panel chaired by Professor Rafael Bengoa?

Numbers

Which law governs how an organisation handles personal data?

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Name three tasks an informal carer commonly does.

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What is a normative need?

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Give three physical needs that commonly grow in later life.

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What is an aid or adaptation, and which practitioner assesses for one?

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Give three physical needs an adult with a profound learning disability may have.

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Give two physical needs that may arise for a person living with mental ill health.

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Why might a speech and language therapist be involved after a stroke?

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What does a social worker do in adult services?

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When is reablement typically offered?

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Who chaired the expert panel that produced Systems, Not Structures?

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Give two practical requirements a confidentiality policy places on staff.

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What is a statutory service?

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What should a service consider when the person caring for an adult is a child?

Take Adult Service Users further

The same content, four other ways.

Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

  • Empowerment vs Person-centred care

    Empowerment: giving somebody the information and confidence to take control of their own life. Person-centred care: shaping the support itself around what that individual values and wants.

  • Reablement vs Traditional home care

    Reablement: working alongside somebody for a few weeks so they can manage a task themselves again. Traditional home care: it means performing the task for them for as long as it is needed.

  • Self-advocacy vs Citizen advocacy

    Self-advocacy: speaking up on one's own behalf. Citizen advocacy: a trained volunteer from the community standing alongside a person and speaking for them.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What is meant by a need in health and social care?

    Model answer

    A need is something a person requires in order to maintain their health and well-being and cannot meet without support.

  2. 2

    Who set out the taxonomy of social need, and what are its four categories?

    Model answer

    Jonathan Bradshaw set out a taxonomy of social need containing normative need, felt need, expressed need and comparative need.

  3. 3

    What is a normative need?

    Model answer

    A normative need is one defined by a professional or by an agreed standard rather than by the person themselves.

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    What is a felt need?

    Model answer

    A felt need is what a person themselves believes they require, whether or not they ever ask for help with it.

  5. 5

    How does an expressed need differ from a felt need?

    Model answer

    An expressed need is one the person has actually asked for help with, so a felt need becomes expressed only once it is voiced.

  6. 6

    What is a comparative need?

    Model answer

    A comparative need is identified by comparing a person or an area with others in similar circumstances who are already receiving support.

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Adult Service Users revision questions

Is Adult Service Users examined at AS in CCEA Health and Social Care?
Yes. It sits in AS 5, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
What does Adult Service Users cover in CCEA AS-Level Health and Social Care?
12 subtopics: key concepts in work with adults: need, protection, disability, empowerment and person-centred care, older people: needs and how they are met, adults with physical disabilities: needs and how they are met, adults with learning disabilities: needs and how they are met, adults living with mental ill health: needs and how they are met, health practitioners working with adult service users, social care practitioners and advocacy, reablement and the care planning cycle, the bengoa report and a new model of health and social care, confidentiality, safeguarding adults and whistle-blowing policies, statutory, private and voluntary provision and how it is funded and informal carers and the carers and direct payments act (northern ireland) 2002. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
How is Adult Service Users organised?
By the CCEA 0003 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.

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