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Choices, Rights and Rewards: Ageing and Professional Health Care Practices

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Please note: The following short course is specifically for organisations within the health sector. This course can be adapted to specifically suit your organisation's needs.

For older people, choices and rights can be challenging yet rewarding. Our aged care short course prepares you to assist older people in living better and leading dignified lives. Empower yourself – and others – to respond to complex issues to make positive change for those who really need it.

Choices: Learn how to select the best treatment and care options for older people with support from health professionals and the system.

Rights: Discover how to advocate for older persons’ rights, aligned with the new rights-based Aged Care Act.

Rewards: Understand rewards for older people, the health system and health care workers to improve practice in this field.

Gain confidence in supporting decision-making to ensure older people are empowered with choice and receive high-quality and timely care from qualified professionals.

Apply what you learn to your daily practice through a holistic, problem-based approach, incorporating real-world scenarios and case studies to enhance engagement and practical application.

If you are part of an organisation seeking group training, or are interested in a licensing agreement for wider staff development, contact us to discuss how we can meet your needs.

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Key information

Sessions

Fees

Time commitment

20 hours (over five weeks)

Delivery

100 per cent online with informal interdisciplinary peer-to-peer learning, engagement and support.

Entry requirements

You will need access to a computer and the internet and must have basic computer literacy skills and English proficiency.

Who this course is for

This course is ideal for:

  • early to mid-career nurses
  • social and human service workers
  • aged care workers and associations
  • team leaders/managers in community aged care programs
  • allied health professionals and sectors
  • public health and policy professionals
  • mental health professionals.

What you'll learn

You’ll learn how to:

1: Identify and challenge ageism and apply age-friendly principles in a broad range of health settings.

2: Incorporate the social determinants of ageing within one's own professional practice

3: Understand and apply ethical decision-making informed by concepts of dignity of risk and duty of care.

4: Identify and communicate the impact of mental health, cognitive decline, dementia and delirium to older adults, carers and care teams.

5: Understand and apply best practice models to end-of-life care.

6: Apply developing knowledge and confidence in the care of older people across a broad range of health settings.

7. Undertake assessments in case management and collaboratively work in teams.

Course outcomes

On successful completion of this course, you'll get:

  • a digital microcredential badge
  • increased skills in decision making
  • the knowledge and confidence to deal with complex issues in work practice with older people
  • vital insights to be able to directly apply your learning to your daily practice.
  • the foundations and an informal pathway to further study.

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