Caring for Vulnerable Populations

Caring for Vulnerable Populations

Discussion

Review the Week 3 Case Studies by opening the links below.

Child Abuse Case Study (Links to an external site.)

Senior with Dementia Case Study (Links to an external site.)

Maternal Child/Developmental and Mental Illness Case Study (Links to an external site.)

Choose one of the three attached case studies, and reflect on the vulnerable population that the case study portrays.

Identify which case you chose.
Discuss several risk factors that may impact health outcomes for the vulnerable population in your case study.
Identify one agency in your community that can assist this vulnerable group and assess this agency in terms of the 4 A’s (see the lesson). Discuss each of the A’s separately to assess accessibility, acceptability, affordability, and availability for this population.
250 words
APA style
1-2 references

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            For reflection purpose in pertinence to this week’s discussion, I chose the child abuse case study. Having gone through the case study, it is imperative to identify the vulnerable population under discussion. In the above case, children under the age of 15 years are perceived to be under child abuse from their mother. 

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