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Health & Social Care: Service users

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Unit 3: 1st Assignment Background of the Service User Mr Jones is 56 years old. He is a care worker and works in a care home for the elderly and the disabled. He started smoking at the young age of 16 and hasn't stopped since then. He used to smoke about 20-25 a day and sometimes it could go up to 30 on a really stressful day. He is epileptic and also suffers from hypertension but these illnesses are under control by means of medication. He has a family history of diabetes and coronary heart disease but fortunately personally he does not suffer from any of them. He also doesn't drink alcohol. Mr Jones is a father to 5 children and has never seen the need to stop smoking even when his wife was pregnant or when their baby were very young. In spite of his involvement in health care has never considered...

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