(SOLVED) Research relevant community support services in your area that Alice could access.

Discipline: Nursing

Type of Paper: Question-Answer

Academic Level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)

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Pages: 2 Words: 351

Question


Manik supports Alice, who lives independently in the community. Alice is 90. She has macular degeneration, which affects her vision. This means she can no longer drive. The village shops are a 30 minute walk away from Alice. In her condition, a walk of this distance is too far.

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  1. Research relevant community support services in your area that Alice could access. Provide the name and contact details.
  2. How can Manik support Alice to access this agency?
  3. How can Manik support Alice to access this agency?
  4. Explain four things you can do to address the issues with minimal disruption to the service.

  5. Expert preview answer


Alice can access the following Community support services:

Name: MD Support – The Eyes of the Macular Degeneration Community

Contact detail: 3600 Blue Ridge Blvd

Grandview, MO 64030 USA

Email ID: director@mdsupport.org

Contact number: 8167617080

About Support:

MD Support- The Eyes of the Macular Degeneration Community is an all-volunteer online service through website. Through this website platform, the volunteer groups come together using a large e-mail discussion group, and message board for the patients and families affected by this vision disorder to share information and help each other. It is leading the fight to improve the lives of patient with this disease.

How can Manik support Alice to access this agency?

As she has the problem of vision, So, Manik can help her registering in this online web-platform. Whenever, she requires to access the website, Manik can help her. He can also help her getting acquainted with phone number of the organization. If the office of this organization lies near to their place, Manik can help her once to visit them physically once or frequently (depending upon his availability). This will improve her fight with the vision disease. The right information and support can help Alice overcome her worries and retain her independence.

Explain four things you can do to address the issues with minimal disruption?

(i) I will become the part of such support; and facilitate them the kind of services which falls in my domain and their requirement.

(ii) At personal level, I will find out people in locality suffering with this vision problem; tell them about this support to improve their life and independence.

(iii) Using social medial platforms like facebook, twitter etc.; I will advertise more about such support. Social media platforms are powerful tools with vast accessibility and reach. This will help me to facilitate people suffering with disease to know about such organization. I will really impact their awareness and life style for becoming independent.

(iv) I will organize awareness camps in my society to bring volunteers together to help such persons and supports. The society awareness about the difficulties of patients will ease their life.