Graded Unit Planning Stage Kirsty Lafferty - 1943 Words

Graded Unit Planning Stage Kirsty Lafferty I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which has left him with limited mobility making some tasks harder for him. For the purpose of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act 1998 I will be referring to the service users as John, which is not his real name. Since recently suffering†¦show more content†¦Now feeling like he is useless and feels like he has lost his personality and has very low self-esteem and low opinion about himself. If he could socialise again, regain more cognitive development and encourage to take part in activities to help gain more control over his limited mobility then this would benefit him. John and myself met up to discuss what activity he would like to take part in and that he feels would benefit him most. We had discussed many different options of what options we had in a few different sessions giving John sometime to consider anything he would like to ask about any activity. After some consideration, John decided that he would like to take part in one of the group activity games that he had watched other service users play when he had came to visit the centre before he joined up. The game itself is a target game which uses a large felt target board which is placed on the floor and beanbags that is used to throw to score points on the target. As John has now came to realise he is gaining a little more confidence in himself and is learning deal with his limited mobility the aim of this activity is to prevent any further isolation , help gain more self esteem and confidence and to include him more within the centre with other service users. The aim of using this activity is that John himself chose it which means as playing the game you need