There are various types of care that can be given to people for a number of reasons. These reasons differ depending on the needs of the individual. The needs can be things such as mental illness, mental disability, loss of parents; but also various other not so obvious needs such as levels of dependence, levels of disability and grades of disability; it can be 24 hour care or partial care and it is something that for some people can change depending on their needs.
There are 3 forms of child-care
Residential schools
This is a school in which children generally stay 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. This is often at the disadvantage of the child because they may be forced there against their will.
Circumstance that could land a child in residential school are the following...
Orphanage care
This is because children lose their parents and other family members decide against covering for them. These environments have a reputation for being abusive in a variety of ways.
It can also occur because parents refuse to look after their children.
Foster parenting is an alternative to this dilemma
Child disability care organisation
This is where children get taken into care because they have a disability, normally a mental disability. A team of carers would look after the children and they may or may not be aloud home to their parents. Care staffs quite often need to look after them permanently because mental disability does not usually go away and this would lead to adult disability care.
Miscellaneous care
There is care for some children that can become mentally ill because of behaviour related circumstances and can result from stress caused by their own anti-social behaviour so to speak. They may have to put there in order to regulate their behaviour or to deal with illness associated with this.
Other kinds of care may be involved in juvenile crime.
They also may be in care temporally because of suffering abuse before they are placed elsewhere.
There are several forms of adult-care
Adult disability care
This is where adults are in long-term care because of disability, normally mental disability. This often has serious impacts on their life-opportunities such as working and it is almost impossible to get out of this.
Some people can be therapeutically trained to support them-selves with their disability with great difficulty and this can lead to domiciliary care.
Domiciliary care
This is also known as supported living.
This is where the staff will live or work alongside the patient so that they can live as close to a normal life as possible, but it is almost impossible for them to reach a state of absolute independence.
The fact that they have a record of care can effect them in the same way as a criminal record because some circumstances require patients to show their past history in order to get curtain jobs etc.
Geriatric care
This is a form of care for elderly people. This is generally until death occurs because of terminal illness such as Parkinson’s disease and Hutchinson's disease.
They may end up here because people that they know are not prepared to look after them and no equivalent to foster care for old people exists.
The drawback with these places is that there is a lot of abuse going on and some fairly stable care houses cave in and they have to be moved and it has been reputed to distress patients to the point of death!
Hospice care
This is where people go to die. This is usually irreversible, but people can sometimes get better and get out of these places though it is not common.
There is another division of care for people with mental illness
Psychiatric hospital care
People may be detained under the laws that state that they have to be sectioned in curtain circumstances. In the United Kingdom, at least 2 doctors can sign a paper to get this to happen. Patients have to be a risk to them-selves, property or other people to warrant being sectioned; this includes suicide attempts.
Some patients may volunteer to go to a psychiatric hospital because they recognise that they are ill.
Treatment can occur against the patient’s wishes if this is needed and that can often be with drugs intravenously to prevent them spitting out the medications. They are often reputed to be tied up and heavily sedated, although this may not occur.
Historically people could be incarcerated here for the rest of their lives; but today this is a lot more unlikely.
The patients are generally detained until doctors believe that they are stable enough to leave.
Rehabilitation unit care
People whom are addicted to drugs may be voluntarily or involuntarily detained or made an out-patient here.
Drugs are used to get people off of other drugs in order to prevent them being addicted and to prevent the with-drawl symptoms of these drugs occurring, for example delirium tremens in alcohol withdrawal.
Just about all divisions of care have their problem with abuse, particularly residential schools, psychiatric hospitals, and geriatric hospitals.
Common forms of abuse that are specific to care for no known reason can be the following...
