Learn more about our aims and objectives for our Elderly Care Course Modules:
Module Aims – Care Skills
The aim of this module is to provide the learner with the knowledge, skills and competency to care for clients in a hygienic and professional manner.
Module Objectives – Care Skills
- To develop a better understanding of the maintenance of a safe environment for clients of differing needs.
- To enable students to develop an awareness of the range of needs of clients in need of care and determine the appropriate level of care to be offered as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- To facilitate students to develop interpersonal skills.
- To demonstrate knowledge and skills required to assist clients with activities of daily living.
to provide a safe environment for staff, clients and any other people who may enter the workplace.
- To promote dignity, choice, and empowerment of residents in a healthcare facility
- Examine the physical, emotional, social, psychological, and spiritual needs of a range of groups of people taking into account individual variation.
Module Aims – Care of the Older Person
The aim is to provide the knowledge, skills and competency to provide the full range of needs i.e. holistic care for older people in a variety of care settings working under the direction and supervision of nursing staff.
Module Objectives – Care of the Older Person
- Acquire the skills to meet the needs of the older person
- To understand the role of the healthcare assistant in promoting a positive attitude to ageing and death and dying.
- To enable learners to acquire the best practice skills associated with the provision of holistic care.
- Understand the range of services available to older people.
- To acquire the communication skills required to enable the healthcare assistant to communicate effectively with the older person, their family and the multidisciplinary team.
- To take a proactive role in health promotion
- Acquire the basic therapeutic intervention skills