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Know how to monitor individual’s health and wellbeing / Be able to assess and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing

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‘Using soft signs to identify early indicators of physical deterioration’ from Wessex Academic Health Science Network

Read about some of the appropriate tools to monitor and report changes in health and wellbeing. Which ones are used in your setting?

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If you are working with older clients you may find Age UK’s ‘A practical guide to healthy ageing’ of use in engaging and involving individuals in monitoring their own health and wellbeing.
This article from the American Psychiatric Association is on ‘Warning Signs of Mental Illness’.
This article from the AHSN Network looks at ‘Spotting the early soft signs of deterioration and sepsis’.
‘RESTORE2 (Soft Signs, NEWS2 and SBAR/D)’ is an article from Wessex Academic Health Science Network.

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