Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: VE 2022

Class Number: All

Class Section: All

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Course Code: HWSS6078C

Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people

Important Information:

Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.  

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This course is delivered and assessed in a cluster with;

• CHCCS023 - Support independence and wellbeing •CHCCCS015 - Provide individualised support

School: 535T Social Care and Health

Campus: City Campus

Program: C3401 - Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing)

Course Contact: Clare McGlone

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7929

Course Contact Email: clare.mcglone@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 50

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to respond to the goals and aspirations of older people and provide support services in a manner that focuses on improving health outcomes and quality of life, using a person-centred approach.


This unit applies to support workers in residential or community contexts.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CHCAGE001 Facilitate the empowerment of older people

Element:

1. Develop relationships with older people

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Conduct interpersonal exchanges in a manner that promotes empowerment and develops and maintains trust and goodwill

 

1.2 Recognise and respect older people’s social, cultural and spiritual differences

 

1.3 Maintain confidentiality and privacy of the person within organisation policy and protocols

 

1.4 Work with the person to identify physical and social enablers and disablers impacting on health outcomes and quality of life

 

1.5 Encourage the person to adopt a shared responsibility for own support as a means of achieving better health outcomes and quality of life

Element:

2. Provide services to older people

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Identify and discuss services which empower the older person

 

2.2 Support the older person to express their own identity and preferences without imposing own values and attitudes

 

2.3 Adjust services to meet the specific needs of the older person and provide services according to the older person’s preferences

 

2.4 Provide services according to organisation policies, procedures and duty of care requirements

Element:

3. Support the rights of older people

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Assist the older person to understand their rights and the complaints mechanisms of the organisation

 

3.2 Deliver services ensuring the rights of the older person are upheld

 

3.3 Identify breaches of human rights and respond appropriately

 

3.4 Recognise signs consistent with financial, physical or emotional abuse or neglect of the older person and report to an appropriate person

 

3.5 Assist the person to access other support services and the complaints mechanisms as required

Element:

4. Promote health and re-ablement of older people

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Encourage the older person to engage as actively as possible in all living activities and provide them with information and support to do so

 

4.2 Assist the older person to recognise the impact that changes associated with ageing may have on their activities of living

 

4.3 Identify strategies and opportunities that maximise engagement and promote healthy lifestyle practices

 

4.4 Identify and utilise aids and modifications that promote individual strengths and capacities to assist with independent living in the older person’s environment

 

4.5 Discuss situations of risk or potential risk associated with ageing

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements. 


Details of Learning Activities

Classes where information is shared through talks and group discussions, and exercises are conducted to apply learning. Time in class, will also be spent working on applied assessment tasks.  


Teaching Schedule

 WeekTopicAssessment / Learning activities
Week 1 Community Service Sector
  • overview/trends of aged care
  • Accessing aged care services
  • home care programs
  • Short/Long term help at home
  • Residential Care
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Funding
  • Support
  • Agencies and professionals
  • Considerations when making referrals
Week 2 Care Approaches and Human Needs 
  • apply a person-centred care approach
  • apply a strengths-based approach
  • apply consumer-directed care
  • apply knowledge of empowerment and disempowerment
  • apply a rights-based approach
  • apply knowledge of self-actualisation
  • apply knowledge of social justice and inclusion
  • apply knowledge of early intervention
  • apply knowledge of citizenship
  • Physical/Psychological Needs
  • Spiritual/Cultural/Sexual Needs
Week 3 Mid Semester break   
Week 4 Individualization 
  • Identity-expression of personal identity
  • Sexual expression - barriers and support needs in the elderly
  • LGBTI residents - discuss individual differences socially and culturally
  • spiritual differences
  • Individualised care plans and progress notes with examples of filled out progress notes
  • physical and social enablers and disablers with examples of both
  • Reablement strategies looking at mental health
  • Supporting residents who are vulnerable
Week 5 The ageing process  + Health and Wellbeing 
  • Human lifespan and the process of ageing
  • Factors affecting Health and wellbeing such as anxiety with the risk factors involved
  • Healthy Lifestyle Strategies- safe environments, OH&S, and identifying hazards
Week 6 Roles and Responsibilities 
  • Intro to unit with role of the PCA
  • Legal/ethical requirements
  • Human Rights that residents have
  • Complaints and Elder Abuse
Week 7 Support Activities 
  • What  support activites are - support and aims of individualised activities
  • Communication activities
  • Risks and Crisis
Week 8 Monitoring 
  • Identifying aspects of individualised plans to review and how to involve the residents in this
  • Documentation required
  • Developing skills 
Week 9 Placements   
Week 10 Placements   
Week 11 Placements   
Week 12 Assessment Review   
Week 13 Debriefing   

Student support

Your first point of contact for any support needs with your assessments should be your teacher and assessor. If you require further support, you should consider contacting the following support services at RMIT. 

Assessment adjustments

Students requiring support or adjustments for their formal assessments task or exams should contact Equitable Learning Services (ELS), for more information on the types of adjustments provided, access RMIT adjustments to assessment.

Special consideration

If unexpected circumstances affect your ability to complete an assessment you can apply for special consideration.  For more information access RMIT special consideration.

Appeals

As an RMIT student you are entitled to seek a review of decisions that impact on your studies. For more information access RMIT appeals.


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

The University Library has extensive resources and provides subject specialist expertise, research advice, help with referencing and support through: 
The learning Lab 
www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/learning-lab 
The Study Support Hub 
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/study-support-hub 
English for uni workshops 
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/workshops/english-uni-workshops 


Overview of Assessment

Assessments will include a combination of tasks including knowledge questions and case study analysis.


Assessment Tasks

 Assessment Task 1 Knowledge Questions-Part A

Assessment Task 1 Knowledge Questions-Part B

Assessment Task 1 Knowledge Questions-Part C

Assessment Task 2-Role Play-James Foster

 Task 3 Practical Assessment-Role play – Iris Fairweather

Task 4 Practical Assessment-Placement Assessment Task

 


Assessment Matrix

The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant unit of competency. 

 The assessment matrix is located in Canvas, at the end of each assessment task. 

Other Information

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students 

 

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