Aged Care: Tailored Individualized Care Plans

Description of Care Plan Implementation

Discuss the care plan implementation.

Care plan implementation is described as an arrangement of care management activities through which the plan will be activated. These activities include informing the clients and their family members about health issues, availability of the health care services and accessibility to those services. It can also be called as “service coordination,” which can be defined as active participation of many persons or single person, such as, case managers, family members and clients in maintaining or arranging for specific services (Brownie & Nancarrow, 2013). When this care plan will be applied individually or person-to-person basis, then it will be referred as individualised care plan. This plan can be implemented in any sector of the community in order to get back better community. In this report, aged care plan is chosen as the service care plan which will be implemented in a particular society. This plan aims to meet the growing necessities from the families who are struggling to deal with the stress, practical and emotional issues associated with the aged care placement, the efficient transition to suitable accommodation together with the challenges for the older individuals staying at home.

Before participation, I have to understand the care plan completely. Firstly, I have to understand the selected society and the people, where the care plan will be implemented. As the care plan is based on aged care, so, I have to emphasize on the promotion of comfort and medical needs of the older people. Along with these improvements, I have to focus on implementing and maintaining the psychosocial, intellectual and physical skills of the older persons of the community (Kitson et al., 2013). Under this care plan, I have to help the aged people, who are staying in their own home too along with the old age homes in order to maintain dignity, self-esteem and independence. In this individualized care plan, along with other provided cares, as a coordinator, I have to focus on each person at all the times.

After participation, firstly, I have to analyse the community through assessing the cultures and the people of the community. I have to communicate with the aged people individually to know their personal, physical and mental statement. While this communication, I have to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of each client as part of the job. In this process, the cultural sensitivities should not be disturbed. In a community, it can be imagined that, people from various cultures should be present. So, the clients will be communicated through their regional languages. This will establish a comfort zone and clear transparency between the clients and the care plan members. The care plan will be designed based on the assessment of each aged individual (Edvardsson et al., 2014). Along with this individual assessment, one healthcare camp will also be established in the community. The physicians will monitor the health conditions of the aged people of that community individually. After monitoring, the health issues will be listed down. Along with other members, I will provide the health information in order to treat those health issues. In case of critical care, under the guidance of specialized doctor, I will volunteer the critical care treatment individually. The aged patients will be informed about the nearest hospitals. There are many aged people, who are not having any support system. I have to specially focus on them through providing the safe support system in terms of all aspects (Roth et al., 2013). The most experienced problem for the aged people is the economical dependency. So, along with the other members, I will be introduced about many healthcare policies and life insurances to the people. At this stages of life the older people need support in their daily lives. But due to the busy schedule, the family members are not able to provide that support. So, in this care plan, the most needed step will be communicating with the family members individually (Berglund et al., 2013). The family members need to be informed about the conditions of the older members of their family. They should be reminded about their future, where they may face the same issues like these older people.

This plan will also educate the staff and the other workers of the aged-care and the other on how to tackle this delicate time by means of education sessions of a high quality. It will help the individuals in finding the placement in the aged-care facilities.

The plan will be implemented successfully, when the plan will give the positive results in the society. So, after completion of the plan, under the guidance of the team leader, I will monitor the plan after a short time interval. This will improve the basic condition of the aged people gradually in terms of all aspects. Along with the care plans, the common people and the family members should have to be responsible and should take the initiatives to care for the aged people in an efficient manner.

References:

Berglund, H., Wilhelmson, K., Blomberg, S., Dunér, A., Kjellgren, K., & Hasson, H. (2013). Older people's views of quality of care: a randomised controlled study of continuum of care. Journal of clinical nursing, 22(19-20), 2934-2944.

Brownie, S., & Nancarrow, S. (2013). Effects of person-centered care on residents and staff in aged-care facilities: a systematic review. Clinical interventions in Aging, 8, 1.

Edvardsson, D., Sandman, P. O., & Borell, L. (2014). Implementing national guidelines for person-centered care of people with dementia in residential aged care: effects on perceived person-centeredness, staff strain, and stress of conscience. International Psychogeriatrics, 26(07), 1171-1179.

Kitson, A., Marshall, A., Bassett, K., & Zeitz, K. (2013). What are the core elements of patient‐centred care? A narrative review and synthesis of the literature from health policy, medicine and nursing. Journal of advanced nursing, 69(1), 4-15.

Roth, M. T., Ivey, J. L., Esserman, D. A., Crisp, G., Kurz, J., & Weinberger, M. (2013). Individualized medication assessment and planning: optimizing medication use in older adults in the primary care setting. Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 33(8), 787-797.