Case Study After her husband died, Rosa moved into a small unit in a retirement

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Case Study After her husband died, Rosa moved into a small unit in a retirement village. Her children have asked a worker to meet with Rosa to discuss her needs as they are worried about her. Rosa and her husband were very sociable, always having people around to the house or going out with friends. Rosa is an excellent cook and was always the life of any party. Rosa’s husband had a serious disability after a car accident and Rosa cared for him up until his death. Since she moved to the retirement village Rosa has stopped accepting invitations to go out with friends and never invites even her children and grandchildren around to her unit. While her home was always immaculate, her children have noticed that her unit shows signs of neglect.

How can the worker support Rosa to identify her strengths and ability to self-care?

How can the worker help Rosa to identify opportunities to utilise her strengths?

Rosa tells the worker she is struggling to bend her knees, which make using a vacuum cleaner difficult. What information or assistance can the worker provide Rosa to facilitate access to services?

What service delivery model might the worker use to support Rosa to self-manage her own service delivery?

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Worker can help her by maintaining communication about her likes and dislikes and currently what she is feeling after losing her husband. It's a difficult time for her and that's why she is preferring isolation at this moment.

Worker can help her to meet people they can organise some social programs which can make her feel better. As this time she needs more care and nurturing on emotional level for strengthening her mental strength.

Worker can help her to keep a housekeeping for house work or even they can suggest some exercise which can ease her pain.

The worker should allow herself to feel better by going through her pace of recovery as this will help her to regain her lost strength.

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