8. Towards the end of her shift at CareShore, Julie goes over to the part of the aged care facility that is reserved for younger people with disabilities, as Julie has a new client called Casey. Unlike her other clients, Casey is only 29, but after a boating accident has incomplete quadriplegia. Review the Individual Plan below and answer the questions that follow.
INDIVIDUAL PLAN XXXXXXXXXXDATE: XXXXXXXXXX
Client Name: Casey Hamilton
Background: Casey is a 29-year-old man with incomplete quadriplegia, acquired after a boating accident. He has recently acquired his disability and is still regaining some skills that he lost. He lives in a unit of the aged care facility which is for younger people.
Goals to achieve:
Who will help the client do it:
Time-frame to start goal:
1. Casey to have 1 hour of support in the mornings and again in the evenings to assist with personal care, and then throughout the day as required.
On weekends, Casey’s mother to provide the personal care support when Casey stays at the family home.
Support workers during the week.
Casey’s mother on the weekends.
Immediate start.
2. Casey to do exercises every day to strengthen his upper body. The exercises devised by the physiotherapist to be followed.
Support staff will work with Casey for 20 minutes each morning.
Immediate start.
3. Casey to have aids and equipment to be able to live independently in a room in his parent’s home.
Casey’s
other will help him to purchase these items.
To be sourced after re-assessment from Occupational Therapist, which is scheduled for one month from now.
4. Casey to attend two rock concerts a year.
Casey’s
other will go with him to these concerts.
As required.
5. Casey to learn to dress himself more independently.
Support workers to show Casey different methods of independently dressing himself, and assist him to learn to do this.
To start after Casey has developed some more upper body muscle strength –in approximately nine months.
6. Casey to have activities outside of the aged care facility; something to do with younger people and his passion for boating.
Aged Care Unit Manager.
In approximately 1 year, after Casey is more physically strong and learning to be more independent.
Outline the techniques, Julie, as the support worker, will use to complete Casey’s physical support routines in the areas of oral hygiene, grooming and body hygiene XXXXXXXXXXwords)