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Short Documentary 'Service Users And Carers' Perspective

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In this assignment, on service user and carer views, with regard to the short documentary, I intend to highlight the key points of the film. In this I will also outline some of the service users and carers’ views and experiences on oppression and discrimination. This will demonstrate an understanding of social work theory and its contribution to anti-oppressive practices.

The short film shows individuals who have been diagnosed with dementia with some family members. A brief explanation of dementia would be that this is a set of symptoms, such as difficulties thinking, communicating, impaired judgement, inappropriate behaviour, unsure of time and place and possible balance difficulties. The illness would be identified more commonly known as Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular, Dementia with Lewy Bodys, Fronto-temperol, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Korsakoff's Syndrome (Alzheimer’s Org, 2014). …show more content…

The service user can be regressing to child like demeanours, which the person is incapable of doing anything about and realising that they are hurting the people they love the most. The service users use descriptive terms - ‘powerless, disorientated, tormented, lonely, isolated’ (Scie, 2014).

The only explanation I could give of dementia would be my ‘interpretation’, therefore the best description that I would draw upon is that of a sufferer:- “You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Without memory is no life at all, just as intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing” (Buijssen, 2005,

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