Describe at least three situations in a social care setting where challenging behaviour could arise.
My setting is based in a mental health ward of an NHS hospital.
An elderly patient is in hospital in a public ward, she has a diagnosis of dementia, which causes her to suffer from periods of paranoid delusions. She is in hospital for a brief visit as she has just suffered a bad episode. Her husband is finding it more and more difficult to cope with her behaviour. Her social worker is thinking of looking into long-term care in a nursing home, if the situation does not improve.
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