Group Work In Health And Social Care Essay

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Group Work When I was on work experience, I had started to work in a group with the elderly at a café, which had been set up by the colleagues for the elderly with dementia where the café was known as the ‘memory café’. At this event they had they had tea and food and had a guest singer who sang popular songs for the 80’s where there was a positive atmosphere in the room because all the elderly who attended the café were singing along with the music. The way I had communicated with the elderly was that I had made sure that I was levelled with then mean that I wasn’t standing over them and making them feel small and to not make them feel like I had overpowered then, the reason this is important is because they would feel uncomfortable and wouldn’t …show more content…

This also links into other care setting from surgeries to schools because this kind of information would have to be told to someone responsible which this has to be told to others in different care settings link hospitals, offices and other setting. This is putting someone in danger or even others around them, this problem would need to be informed straight away to a responsible adult in case there may be an accident that may occur in the care settings for the service user’s health and safety and for others around in the care …show more content…

We then had asked question about if they knew about the company which was ‘Otley Action for Older People’ and if they didn’t we had then talks about it what the company does for the elderly. There were different topics that were very sensitive so I had to make sure that I wasn’t talking in a way that would make then feel uncomfortable for example ‘do you get

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