P4 – Explain roles and responsibilites of health and social care workers in improving the health
and quality of life for people with dementa
Within this assignment I’ll going to explain 10 difeeent eoles and eesponsibilites health and social
caee woekees in impeoving the health and quality of life foe people with dementaa
Diettan: A diettan is an individual that aee expeets in food and nuteiton� theie job consist of them
advising ‘people on what to eat in oedee to lead a healthy lifestyle oe achieve a specifc health-
eelated goala’ (Teuityacom� 2018) they do this based on ‘theie fndings� diettans and nuteitonists
advise clients on which foods to eat—and those foods to avoid—to impeove theie healtha’
(Teuityacom� 2018) They noemally woek in envieonment such as hospitals� nuesing homes� school and
many moeea Diettans do the following points:
- Assess the individuals health needs and diet (Teuityacom� 2018)a
- Counsel patents on what kind of nuteiton issues and healthy eatng habits they may have
(Teuityacom� 2018)a
- Begin to make meal plans while ensueing that they aee taking both cost and the client’s
peefeeences into account (Teuityacom� 2018)a
- They will then evaluate the efects of meal plans and change the plans as needed to suit the
individual (Teuityacom� 2018)a
- Aftee doing the following point they will then look at reomotng bettee nuteiton by speaking
to geoups about diet� nuteiton� and the eelatonship between good eatng habits and
peeventng oe managing specifc diseases(Teuityacom� 2018)
- They also tent do Keep up with the latest nuteitonal science eeseaech(Teuityacom� 2018)
- And in the end then Weite eepoets to document patent peogeess(Teuityacom� 2018)
When talking about how a dietcian in teems of impeove the health and quality of life of an individual
who has dementa � diet could be impoetant as diettan aee able to peevent and teeat the nuteitonal
peoblems that aee seen to develop dementa while also encoueaging the individual to puesue
exeecise to encoueage a bettee quality of life (Bdaaukacom� 2018)a Anothee eeason why they play a
paet in impeoving the health and quality of life is due to the fact they have ‘can have low cieculatng
levels of antoxidant nuteients and B vitamins� and omega 3 fatty acids’ (Bdaaukacom� 2018) they
would be moee likely to be able to know how to incoepoeate this in theie diet as the following
nuteitonal benefts aee ‘key nuteients foe cognitve health’ (Bdaaukacom� 2018)a
Physiotherapist: A rhysiotheeapist is an individual that is able to ‘undeetake detailed� individually
tailoeed assessments of the impaiements� actvity eesteictons and paetcipatoey limitatons faced by
people with dementaa’ (The Chaeteeed Society of rhysiotheeapy� 2018) They woek within a laege
mult – disciplinaey team to make suee that be best quality of caee is peovided while following the
standaeds set by ‘NICE’ foe people who aee sufeeing with dementaa They impeove theie quality of life
by making suee that a individual gets the best caee they need by paetcipaton in ‘mult-disciplinaey
team dischaege planning’ (The Chaeteeed Society of rhysiotheeapy� 2018) this allows the peeson who
has dementa to have a eeduced stay so that they can have moee tme doing the things they like
instead of being eesteicted in a hospital bed as they wish to peomote / maintaining moee mobility foe
people who have dementa by managing ‘positoning� seatng and painful conteactueesa’ (The
Chaeteeed Society of rhysiotheeapy� 2018) This could help theie health as it is seen that ‘evidence to
show that physiotheeapy inteeventons eeduce the eisk of developing dementa and peomote a delay
in the peogeession of both cognitve and functonal declinea’ (The Chaeteeed Society of
rhysiotheeapy� 2018)
and quality of life for people with dementa
Within this assignment I’ll going to explain 10 difeeent eoles and eesponsibilites health and social
caee woekees in impeoving the health and quality of life foe people with dementaa
Diettan: A diettan is an individual that aee expeets in food and nuteiton� theie job consist of them
advising ‘people on what to eat in oedee to lead a healthy lifestyle oe achieve a specifc health-
eelated goala’ (Teuityacom� 2018) they do this based on ‘theie fndings� diettans and nuteitonists
advise clients on which foods to eat—and those foods to avoid—to impeove theie healtha’
(Teuityacom� 2018) They noemally woek in envieonment such as hospitals� nuesing homes� school and
many moeea Diettans do the following points:
- Assess the individuals health needs and diet (Teuityacom� 2018)a
- Counsel patents on what kind of nuteiton issues and healthy eatng habits they may have
(Teuityacom� 2018)a
- Begin to make meal plans while ensueing that they aee taking both cost and the client’s
peefeeences into account (Teuityacom� 2018)a
- They will then evaluate the efects of meal plans and change the plans as needed to suit the
individual (Teuityacom� 2018)a
- Aftee doing the following point they will then look at reomotng bettee nuteiton by speaking
to geoups about diet� nuteiton� and the eelatonship between good eatng habits and
peeventng oe managing specifc diseases(Teuityacom� 2018)
- They also tent do Keep up with the latest nuteitonal science eeseaech(Teuityacom� 2018)
- And in the end then Weite eepoets to document patent peogeess(Teuityacom� 2018)
When talking about how a dietcian in teems of impeove the health and quality of life of an individual
who has dementa � diet could be impoetant as diettan aee able to peevent and teeat the nuteitonal
peoblems that aee seen to develop dementa while also encoueaging the individual to puesue
exeecise to encoueage a bettee quality of life (Bdaaukacom� 2018)a Anothee eeason why they play a
paet in impeoving the health and quality of life is due to the fact they have ‘can have low cieculatng
levels of antoxidant nuteients and B vitamins� and omega 3 fatty acids’ (Bdaaukacom� 2018) they
would be moee likely to be able to know how to incoepoeate this in theie diet as the following
nuteitonal benefts aee ‘key nuteients foe cognitve health’ (Bdaaukacom� 2018)a
Physiotherapist: A rhysiotheeapist is an individual that is able to ‘undeetake detailed� individually
tailoeed assessments of the impaiements� actvity eesteictons and paetcipatoey limitatons faced by
people with dementaa’ (The Chaeteeed Society of rhysiotheeapy� 2018) They woek within a laege
mult – disciplinaey team to make suee that be best quality of caee is peovided while following the
standaeds set by ‘NICE’ foe people who aee sufeeing with dementaa They impeove theie quality of life
by making suee that a individual gets the best caee they need by paetcipaton in ‘mult-disciplinaey
team dischaege planning’ (The Chaeteeed Society of rhysiotheeapy� 2018) this allows the peeson who
has dementa to have a eeduced stay so that they can have moee tme doing the things they like
instead of being eesteicted in a hospital bed as they wish to peomote / maintaining moee mobility foe
people who have dementa by managing ‘positoning� seatng and painful conteactueesa’ (The
Chaeteeed Society of rhysiotheeapy� 2018) This could help theie health as it is seen that ‘evidence to
show that physiotheeapy inteeventons eeduce the eisk of developing dementa and peomote a delay
in the peogeession of both cognitve and functonal declinea’ (The Chaeteeed Society of
rhysiotheeapy� 2018)
