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In What Ways Can Service User Involvement Help to Address Power Imbalance in Health and Social Care
This essay will look at what power is and why it is important in health and social care and how it impacts the relationships of the service user and provider. It will also assess the different forms of power that the service user may go through and how some of those forms may not be so obvious. The essay will look at an article from the British Journal of Learning Disabilities (BJLD), "It’s Only Right That We Get Involved: Service-user Perspectives on Involvement in Learning Disability Services" (Hoole and Morgan, 2010), where service users are involved with their care and compare it to theories such as those of Ivan Illich, Arnsteins Ladder, Kwok-TFu Wong and Henderson and Pochin (reference). It will also address the importance of advocacy and citizenship as part of the framework to a service user’s input to their package of care and care needs good overview of approach to essay
By Samantha Hill8 years ago in Longevity
The Journey to Healthy
My Struggle With My Weight Growing up, I was always an active, healthy child. I would play out around the pond, climb trees, walk to the local shop by myself, and go watch my granddad fish, then run around like the mad head I am. That all changed when I was around 7-years-old.
By Lauren Everall8 years ago in Longevity
The Lupron Chronicles
After almost ten years of painful menstruation, constant UTI symptoms, and no answers, I started on my Endometriosis journey. On Thanksgiving 2016, I started experiencing new sharp and twisting pain. I went back to the surgeon I had chosen for exploratory surgery a few years before and told him now is the time. I have Stage 4 Endometriosis with Chocolate Cysts (Stage Three) causing Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis lesions. Along with these DIE lesions, I have spots of endometriosis all over my pelvic cavity ranging from Stage 1 severity to Stage 4 severity. These multitudes of lesions and stages had started to severely impact my mobility and daily life. The FDA approved drug Depo-Lupron or "Lupron," is my last choice and I am starting it soon.
By Katie Moore8 years ago in Longevity
Faith
I used to think all kinds of things about faith but I confused faith with my own judgments around religion and what I told myself religion was telling me. Now Faith is my bedrock, my best grounding tool, my most staunch ally, my cheerleader, and my friend. It’s connecting with myself on the deepest level that exists and allowing me to be myself from that connection. It’s believing in myself and the divinity that is me and is all else. It’s embracing the truth as I see it and calling it whatever definition works best for me in that moment, regardless of anyone else. It is embodied through the prayers I utter, the tears I weep, the gasps of surprise, the passion I feel, the compassion I have, the way that I move, the stillness inside, the peace in my mind, the joy in my heart, and the cells in my body. Faith sustains me in my darkest hours, at my lowest points, when I feel broken and alone, and it always has. I just saw it differently to how I see it now. Before, when I resisted, rejected, and denounced faith because I did not understand what it could be for me, faith shine into my bleak view of life and I could not stand its brightness, so I pulled down the blinds some more, and then some more, and then some more still. Eventually I made it so dark I could not see at all and that’s when I actually found faith and saw it for what it really was to me. It took me another ten years to realise that was what had happened and when I did, I allowed faith into my life fully. That choice changed my life again and brought me miracles beyond imagining.
By Gabriella Grace8 years ago in Longevity
Traveling Making You Fat? Innovative Food App Helps to Keep the Bulge Away
Traveling for work or vacation can negatively affect your waist when you're constantly eating out. In fact, a study conducted by Extended Stay America found that 86 percent of travelers reported gaining an average of 1.5 pounds for each week they were away from home. The numbers don’t look any better for vacationers, either. A survey by TripAdvisor found that 29 percent of Americans say they always or often gain weight while traveling. The makers of HowUdish hope to make eating out easier on the waistline.
By Nikki Gaskins Campbell8 years ago in Longevity
Getting Down After Losing Pounds
In a previous volume of my weight loss journey, I spoke a little bit about the depression that can occur with losing a lot of weight quickly, especially with people who have had weight loss surgery. In that article, I said I would go into more detail, and that is because I feel depression is a much more serious thing to discuss. As someone who has dealt with severe depression for a good portion of their lives, I felt it important to go into my feelings on why depression can occur after weight loss surgery. I am not saying that this will happen to everyone. There are certainly a lot of people who get happier and happier as time goes on, but this is certainly something that can happen which is why I wanted to write about it.
By Vanessa Cherron Riser8 years ago in Longevity
Imitating the Sea of Sound
Ever since I was a kid myself, I have loved to imitate. I consistently got good laughs from imitating sounds, imitating singers, imitating friends. I loved the challenge of exactly matching a sound, whether it was a bird, vacuum cleaner, or person. I worked diligently to match sounds, which I came to see involved a good deal of listening, of patience, and concentration. Imitating is an all-around, comprehensive metaphysical exercise in the use of sound. It is also a blast to do with children.
By Paul S. Madar8 years ago in Longevity
I Just Can't, Today.
I don’t care who you are or where you’re from or what you do for a living or how many friends you have…we all have these days. They are real and we all have them. If you want to pretend like you don’t, then that’s fine, but I definitely don’t believe you. These are “the bad days.” Or, at least, that’s what I call mine. If my fiancé asks me what’s wrong and I respond with “just a bad day,” he knows exactly what I mean and exactly how I’m feeling.
By Ashleigh Corriveau8 years ago in Longevity
Believe In Yourself
You wake up in the morning and think about what you look like. You walk to the mirror and stare at yourself. You scrutinise every feature that you can see. You look at your bright eyes surrounded by eyelashes of different lengths. You look at your brows whether they’re thick or thin. You look at yourself and what do you think? Think beauty. Think special. Think beautiful. Think handsome. Think intelligent. Think positive thoughts. You wake up in the morning and believe that you are who you are. Nobody can force you to change yourself. You don’t need to change for anyone because guess what? You are perfect. We’ve been taught for a long time that no one is perfect but if you think you’re perfect, who even has the right to tell you otherwise? No one.
By Amjan Ceesay8 years ago in Longevity
Clean Eating Recipes for Weight Loss
These meals taste delicious and are very effective at helping you lose weight. If you're constantly struggling to find tasty meals that can also help you lose weight, there's no need to worry. These clean eating recipes for weight loss can help you lose pounds and will satisfy your hunger. You will love these meals so much you won't even realize they're actually healthy and nutritious.
By Armando Carrera8 years ago in Longevity
Fitness Fashions That You Need to Try
If you work out most days of the week, what do you wear to the gym? Regular sweatpants and a T-shirt? Maybe even black yoga pants to go with your tight-fitting middle school T-shirt with the year you graduated printed on the back? These days, a lot of people are working out in the most stylish activewear — women and even men. Despite how sweaty and rough they'll be, not only are their choices in workout wear really fashion forward, but they're designed specifically to work out in. You don't have to be following all the fitness fashion trends to like any pair of the following activewear. The majority of these clothes can handle your quickest moves without tearing, since a lot of them are created with stretchy material.
By Jacqueline Hanikeh8 years ago in Longevity
Yoga Poses That Relieve Pain
Yoga is one of the healthiest activities you can take up, and science has regularly backed up its health benefits. Yoginis have been reaping the benefits of a calmer demeanor, increased mobility, better strength, and also healthier joints for years.
By Rowan Marley8 years ago in Longevity
