Person centred practice relies on plans that are

Person centred practice relies on plans that are driven by the person’s goals and aspirations
Q27 The consumer directed care works by
(KE: consumer directed care)
Q28.

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To improve quality of life for individuals with a life-limiting illness and their families
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To reduce the suffering through early identification, assessment, and treatment of pain
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To increase the quality and quantity of pain and ignore other distressing symptoms
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To support the physical, cultural, psychological, social, and spiritual needs.
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To prevent the access to the people the clients wish to be present
Q 29 The examples of empowerment are all except KE: empowerment and disempowerment
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Clarifying what a client can and cannot do and understanding what the person would like
from a service
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Interacting with the client in a minimal way by the support person
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Being flexible in providing services to the client at a time and place that suits him or her
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Outlining the fees, the services, and the responsibilities of the clients
Q30 The aim of reablement is to: Select two correct options KE: re-ablement and effective re-
ablement strategies
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Encourage, promote, and assist people to continue to be socially, physically and
recreationally active
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Ensure that a dependency is set up with the carer to do the daily tasks
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Reduce the need of long term ongoing or premature support
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Ensure the task is done by the carer to save time
Q31 As we get older, there are changes in the way the body functions, which may alter the way
we can express our sexuality. The ways sexuality is expressed while living in aged care facility by a
person with dementia may include Select three
(KE the ageing process and related physiological and psychological changes, including sexuality
and gender issues)
 May undress in public or touch themselves
 May make sexual advances towards others
 May have voracious appetite
 May become aggressive
 May have better decision making
Q 32 As a support worker you could support the sexual needs of a client in the aged care facility
by
(KE the ageing process and related physiological and psychological changes, including sexuality
and gender issues)
 Your values and beliefs not interfering with the rights of people living in the facility to
express their sexuality when it does not harm others
 Asking questions about how the facility supports the expression of sexuality of the
people who live there, including those who have dementia, and who identify as lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transsexual or intersex (LGBTI)
 Being upset by the demands made by the person and not show your concerns with the
care team
 Providing the person living there with opportunities to discuss their needs if they wish to
do so.