Understanding and observing common ailments in the elderly

This course contributes toward the recommended guided learning hours, you should carry out practice reflection, document and attach subsequent evidence from this training.


Summary

The course is designed to provide for care support workers an extensive
overview to the most common ailments that affect the elderly individuals they support. The course covers aetiology, practical reflective intervention tools and to identify objective reporting and observation skills.


Who should attend?

This course is relevant to all workers who provide direct personal care to clients
in all care settings – hospital, residential, day- or foster-care or in the
client’s own home.

Proposed Learner Outcomes - The worker must be able to

• Understand the main effects of a specific condition or syndrome
experienced by the service user groups.
• Understand how to respond to needs created by specific conditions,
impairments or disabilities
• Gain knowledge of what happens to our bodies as we get older
• Understand how we can improve the quality of life for the older
person
• Be able to name at least 6 of the complex diseases that
sometimes afflict the older person
• Identify interventions and responses required to a specific illness
• Understand the use and purpose of each record or report the worker
has to use or contribute to.
• Demonstrate the ability to report in a way that is objective and relevant
• Understand the responsibility of the care worker to report
anything that worries them in the process of their work


Equivalent Relevant information

1. For registered nurses who wish to incorporate this training into your PREP portfolio’s, you should carry
out practice reflection and attach subsequent evidence from this training
2. Certificates are issued for each candidate and are valid for approximately 3 years
3. A candidate assessment is available for post training audit


Included in the session is theory based information that may involve a powerpoint presentation.


The key points to remember are:

1. The training venue should be quiet and undisturbed.
2. Staff should not be expected to be on duty
3. Staff attending should remain for the entire length of the session.
N.B Registration details are kept by us for Seven years. It is important to register on the day.

George Flaherty MSc MBA Ba Ed, started working within social care in 1995. He is now renowned for his ability to pass on practical skills to those that attend his seminars and courses across the UK, Europe and the USA.

Over the years George has managed and successfully marketed his own businesses. He has now passes the skills he has learnt to owners and managers of social care settings. George is often a guest speaker at conferences and seminars explaining how to fill care home beds and promote homes successfully.

He is a published author of many books. His latest book The Guide to Filling Care Home Beds is due for publication December 2011.

George currently lives across two continents, having homes in both Italy and the UK with his family. If you need any more information you can contact him on [email protected]