Impaired functional ability refers to the difficulties in carrying out typical daily tasks. The physical, physiological, and cognitive capacity to do needed tasks can help determine the traits that reflect the optimum degree of functional ability. Some of the risk factors that lead to impaired functional ability include disease burden, abnormal Body Mass Index (BMI), and limited social contacts. While disease burden results in major delays in reaching milestones, abnormal BMI limits the individual’s ability to integrate within the social setting (Giddens, 2021). Such problems can result in limited social contact that affects the typical daily tasks.
The high financial, social, and psychological costs of functional limitations make impaired functional ability an issue of great concern. According to Giddens (2021), these deficits can be seen in daily tasks, social functioning, reasoning, and concentration. Judgment and stress adaptability are also essential indicators in identifying the level of reduced functional capacity (Giger & Haddad, 2021). In most cases, health care providers can intervene to help improve the patient’s quality of life (Swan et al., 2020). Such efforts need extensive management of the victim’s immediate environment.
Therefore, it is crucial to have good family dynamics that can help implement the plan of care. Some of the family dynamics that can be applied include addressing family members’ personalities and establishing a particularly soft nature of the patient’s parents’ relationship (Phiri, Kafulafula & Chorwe-Sungani, 2019). Giddens (2021) recognizes that establishing good family dynamics can be effectively applied to diverse patient populations. However, there are personal concerns about delivering care to culturally diverse families. For instance, several cases of poorly built healthcare systems fail to fulfill the demands of varied patient groups. Such cultural insensitivity can be addressed with proper transformational leadership in healthcare facilities.
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Swan, L. E., Auerbach, S. L., Ely, G. E., Agbemenu, K., Mencia, J., & Araf, N. R. (2020). Family planning practices in Appalachia: Focus group perspectives on service needs in the context of regional substance abuse. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(4), 1198. Web.