1 Attachment to place In this unit we are going to consider the way in which people identify and become attached to places, buildings, objects, and how this attachment can contribute to personal well-being or how we feel about ourselves (Low and Altman, 1992). Looking at why places become important provides a basis for asking questions about what happens when people have to move, a common occurrence for people in need of care services. The purpose of this unit is to focus on the psychological environment, ho
3.3.1 Care: a cautious definition For study purposes, we do need a definition of care, just as we needed a definition of informal carer. So we propose that in the context of health and social care we define care as: something that is needed when people cannot function in daily life without the practical help of others. But, as I have shown, care is a loaded word. It is both a word used by ordinary people to mean love, tende
1.7 Key points In the key points box below we sum up the main ideas introduced so far. You can use it now to check that you have grasped the main ideas, and later the key points will remind you of the content. An informal carer is defined as a person who, without 1.5.2 Duration and frequency We do not know if Katrina's caring responsibilities took up more than 20 hours per week. In a sense, though, whether they did or not is immaterial. What is important is that her schooling was adversely affected. We can speculate that, even if caring accounted for less than 20 hours per week, the emotional impact of being a young carer overflowed into a far larger proportion of her life. 2.4.3 abelling The term ‘informal carer’ is a label. It was coined to describe people who take on unpaid responsibility for the welfare of another person. It is a term which has meaning only when the public world of care provision comes into contact with the private world of the family where caring is a day-to-day, unremarked-upon activity, like reminding a young child to clean her teeth. Labelling yourself as an informal carer requires a major shift in the way you see yourself, a shift neither Arthur n 2.4.2 Duration and frequency The second complication associated with identifying carers is related to how much caring they do and how often they do it. This aspect came to the fore when carers were first identified in the 1985 General Household Survey, an annual statistical survey carried out by the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys in the UK (Green, 1988). From answers to a question in the survey which asked if respondents took on ‘extra responsibilities’ for someone who was ‘sick, handicapped or elderlyâ 2.3.1 A definition of an informal carer Are we any nearer to a definition of an informal carer which goes beyond the case study? Well, three points stand out so far. An informal carer: Performs certain services for someone else with whom they already have a relationship Is not paid a wage for those services Is responsible for the welfare of someone who needs extra help with daily living, because they are ill or otherwise disabled. I can the 2.3 What is an informal carer? Lynne is a daughter and a sister. Is she also an informal carer? Audio: click below to listen to the case study on 'Caring in Familes' 2.2 Introducing the Durrants We will be focusing on a single case study, about Arthur and Lynne Durrant. This enables us to explore some broad questions about care, carers and caring which might be quite boring and divorced from real life if they were presented in the abstract – as official stat 2.1 When is someone an informal carer? Section 1 explores what is meant by the term ‘informal carer’. ‘Informal carer’ is an official term that is 1 Caring: a family affair Mummy would love me, daddy would too, We'd go out on picnics or off to the zoo, We would play in the park and feed the birds, Listen to their songs and imagine their words. My life would be full of joy and laughter, All because they cared, my mother and father, Never would I feel all cold and alone, Knowing that I could always go home. They wo Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: Appreciate the demands that care relationships place on people. Describe how individuals might experience care. Demonstrate an understanding of the difficulty of identifying carers when there is interdependence in the relationship. Introduction Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored. This material is from our archive and is an adapted extract from Understanding Health and Social Care (K100) which is no longer taught by The Open University. If y Learning outcomes On completion of this unit, you should be able to: understand that people who give and receive help and support depend on a mix of paid and unpaid sources. 5.5 What is blood? So, having learned about how blood moves around the body, let's now look at what it's made up of and therefore why we need it at all, and why its health has an effect on sporting performance. Blood has four main components – three types of cell and the watery liquid that holds these cells. Briefly, these four components are: 2.4 The body's different components Looking at the body this way means thinking about things as small as atoms and molecules, and as large as whole body parts. This allows us to think about how everything works at an appropriate level. If we want to understand breathing, for example, we need to think about tiny things such as the oxygen molecules that are absorbed in the body. Similarly, if we want to understand eating, we have to think of complicated internal structures such as the stomach. If we want to understand how the bod 1 What to expect In this unit you will look at how sport can be understood from a scientific perspective. This is a large topic with many possible approaches. We will try to focus on specific details while maintaining a broad overview of the subject using examples from many different sports such as running, athletics, cycling and swimming to illustrate the different ways in which sport and science interact. You will see that even a brief introduction to the science of the human body is enough to answer Introduction With the announcement of the summer Olympics coming to London in 2012, fierce competition between football clubs in the domestic league, and developments in coaching and training throughout all areas of physical fitness, there has never been a better time to learn more about sport. Many of us take for granted what we know about sport, whether we participate or spectate. But have you ever thought about delving deeper, to find out more about the sport you follow in particular and how it fits in Acknowledgements Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: The content acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons licence). See Terms and Conditions. Figure 1 © JupiterImages/Banana Stock/Alamy; Figure 2 © Gary Calton/Alamy; Figure 3 © Spa Press/Rex Features. References
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