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Nestina LuisUnit 5: Meeting Individual Care and Support Needs
Ethical care
Providing support for individuals in the community
5/ A.P1: Explain the importance of promoting equality and diversity for individuals with different needs.
Importance of promoting equality, diversity and anti-discrimination:
What is Equality?
The meaning of equality is when everyone should be able to live their lives freely without being discriminated
against, this allows everyone to be who they want to be without being used that against. Equality also
demonstrates on how everyone is different and that makes everyone unique. We live in a world where
everyone is different this occurs race, religion, age, gender, disability, appearance etc. Equality is so important
in a health and social care setting, because your not allowed to treat someone unfairly due to their
characteristics which leads to directions of the discrimination obligations.
Service providers must always make sure that service users are not being abused and mistreated because of to
their characteristics this allows service users to have opportunity to empower on how they want to be treated.
For an example if an service providers should have variety of skills to how to maintain challenges such as able
to know the negative impacts and positive impacts of each individuals needs because personal care is what
makes service users able to be receive equality that they are willing to. The importance of promoting equality
in a health and social care setting is that service providers must treat service users as their following demands.
This includes they must behave on their best interest and act professionals throughout all standards.
What is diversity?
The term diversity is when everyone has a different suspected of how they view the world, this occurs their
backgrounds and differences unique values in people. Diversity is defined as able to understand and respecting
everyone human rights, which it links back to equality about preventing discrimination from happening to a
person characteristic and this does not only include for one person this goes for everyone in general. In a
health and social care setting, diversity is the key importance of promoting diversity for individuals with
different needs because it prevents from judging an person characteristics and it prevents from different types
abuse to happening to them. It is important that service providers should always make sure that service users
diverse requirements are achieved as well as ensuring that they have equal health care to the care they offer.
This means that service providers must observe everyone and to listen to their opinion, choices, decisions
without being discriminated against their will.
What is discrimination?
Discrimination happens when a person is unable to accept themselves and is treated unfairly because of their
background, which might include race, religion, disability, gender, age, and other characteristics. Anti-
discrimination law indicates how people should treat each other, as viewed by those with a higher awareness
of the act. Discrimination takes place when someone neglects a person's human rights and treats them
differently because of a certain characteristics they have, rather than treating them equally and diversely.
Discrimination may make individuals and groups feel very uncomfortable, and it can lead to poor self-esteem
by making people feel unhappy, disturbed, anxious, ashamed, or angry. This can cause detrimental effects on
their mental health, self-esteem and their achievements. This can have a lot of effect on a person's physical,
emotional, social, and intellectual well-being. Because being treated unfairly due to your beliefs and
identification may be upsetting and make you feel like a shame to society.
Mental Health: Our mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. It affects the
way we think, feel, and behave. Discrimination is often connected with a public stigma.
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Since it is part of the legal obligations to protect service users from risk. Discrimination causes service users to
feel suicidal, unable to view themselves properly, and have a negative impact on themselves. Discrimination
can affect a service user in a health and social care setting in a variety of ways, including a loss of interest in
life, being distressed, and being unable to open up to anyone, a causes of depression and insecurity about
themselves. Discrimination has many types of ways to be address as this include:
Direct discrimination:
Direct discrimination occurs when someone is born with a different set of characteristics. It is described as
being unpleasant, using offensive language, and calling someone a name because they appear to be different.
For an example, Direct discrimination occurs when an individual with a learning disability works in a workplace
with employees who make vile comments and receive disability harassment from the individual's colleagues.
This is a sort of direct discrimination since it is already seen excluded from conversations.
Indirect discrimination:
When a practise, regulation, or rule affects you due of your background, this might be age, disabilities, sex
changes, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, parenting, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. In
a health and social care setting, for example, if a service provider refuses to provide care due to a service users
attitude and behaviour, the service provider may say that if you don't change your behaviour and remain
respectful, they will not provide their services, which is a threat to behave under their own.
Unfair discrimination:
When an individual is mistreated differently and badly, or less favourably, than others on the basis of a given
personal trait, this is known as unfair discrimination. For example, if someone has the same skills and
experience as them but doesn't speak the same language or was educated in a different culture, they will be
treated unfairly by earning low salary and not even being treated with the same respect as others due to their
personal trait, that is defined as unfair discrimination.
Positive discrimination:
Positive discrimination is the act of favouring someone based on their "protected traits." In a positive way, by
treating someone in a unique way. For example, if someone is treated better than others because they have a
protected characteristic, such as a different race, and appreciating someone who is less capable because of a
protected characteristic.
The importance of preventing discrimination.
Preventing discrimination is important because it helps to avoid situations that don't need to be addressed, as
well as avoiding disagreements. For example, everyone has the freedom to say and the authority to share how
they feel that is the life we live in, as a human being it is difficult to keep feelings and thoughts in a box people
have the right to say what's on their minds without fear. Giving individuals the power and equal opportunity to
control their lives and choices is a blessing and a delight in their lives because they have the possibility to be
treated equally to everyone else. It is important that people do not hang on to their feelings since it may lead
to depression. It also protects people's rights and ensures that they are not discriminated against without their
consent or knowledge. Because mistreatment may have a negative impact on a person's well-being and health,
everyone should be treated equally and with respect. In a health and social care setting, for example, service
providers must support each service user with their own set of standards, always recognising that each service
user is unique and has different type of needs and requirements, and ensuring that they are kept safe.
What are the possible effects of discrimination on service users and how to help individual with these
effects.
Because low self-esteem is one of the implications of discrimination, it is critical that service providers
constantly motivate and support service users in avoiding negative effects and draining thoughts. This may be
performed by starting a daily discussion with them and allowing them to communicate their thoughts and
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feelings without the care provider's judgement. To provide the impression that they actually care about the
person, service providers must always act in their best interests and be professionals towards service users.
Since some service users are unable to recognise that anyone is actually there for them, it is important to
inform them that services are available for them and that if something goes wrong, they can receive it without
fear because service providers are always there to help and support them because that is their role. As
discrimination may destroy an individual's wellbeing and impact them in a variety of ways, it is critical to
constantly maintain support for them.
Initiatives aimed at preventing discrimination in care.
People who require communication support and are unable to speak for themselves, such as those with
mutism, or who are unable to comprehend intellectual levels of communication, such as those with learning
disabilities, have initiatives in place to prevent discrimination. The usage advocate will provide a translator to
speak on the individual's position when they are unable to do it themselves. This may be done by providing
services that assist vulnerable individuals in making the best decisions possible. One example, can be in a
health and social care setting, an elderly user are giving a chance to be looked after properly and treated like
the others, and their expectations being met. In a health and social care setting, it is critical to recognise that
there are several approaches for meeting the needs of persons with specific needs, as well as for preventing
harm and protecting them from abuse and neglect. Some service providers will not be successful at preventing
discrimination and even if they are providing the right initiatives. For example, service providers should be
aware that people are different in many aspects, including Intellectual ability, attitude, personality, emotional,
physically, and racial differences, background, age etc. It is critical that care services adapt to meet the unique
requirements of individuals and to prevent discrimination against them by providing sources that are
appropriate to them and content that stands out and offers essential information. Access can be modified to
include call bells for those who are unable to communicate, instructions at wheelchair levels and counters,
larger corridors, wide automatic doors, disabled bathrooms, and lifts, among other things.
Why is it important to promote equality and diversity when preventing discrimination for individuals with
different needs?
The importance of promoting equality and being able to make society respect diversity is because it teaches
everyone how to treat other people, how to value them, and how to have the same access and not be judged,
which is defined as equality, comparison able to provide the same right as it matters. The most important key
term is that equality allows persons with depression and anxiety to be protected by having a psychotherapist
available to them and remaining in touch and encouraging them. Service providers must always remember to
treat service users in a unique way and provide their requirements not same because everyone is different and
they all have their own needs, goals, pains, emotions as it can be different to another individual perspective.
And it is unfair if service providers are not providing their needs. For example, a group of individuals with the
same solutions or issues may cope with their emotions in various ways one person may want to be alone while
others prefer to express their feelings rather than distance themselves, they all have different ways to deal
with things. It is fundamental to avoid allowing judgemental opinions to influence the care provided to service
users. To avoid discrimination, follow the laws and regulations, and always be fair to everyone, regardless of
their requirements. Finally, any act of discrimination should be reported to a higher authority as soon as
possible.
Case Study Unit 5: R Care plan (Stroke) and James MacDonald which preferred to be called Jim (Renal
Failure).
In my case study, it is extremely crucial to promote equality and diversity because R and Jim have different
perspectives on medical conditions and different needs, suggesting that they must be equally represented and
treated with respect. It is also essential that R and Jim are supervised by a carer or even protected and kept
safe, because discrimination takes place everywhere, and people may confront and address a solution that
could impact them. The differences between the two is that R suffers from a stroke and Jim suffers from a
renal failure. The only difference between the two is that R has a stroke while Jim has renal failure. This leads
to people observing them differently, which can have a negative impact on them in a variety of ways because
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