Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: VE 2020
Class Number: 2112
Class Section: XXX7
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Course Code: HWSS6078C
Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people
Important Information:
This course is co-delivered and co-assessed with CHCCCS011 Meet personal support needs and CHCAGE005 Provide support to people living with dementia
School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context
Campus: City Campus
Program: C3402 - Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability)
Course Contact: Clare McGlone
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7929
Course Contact Email: clare.mcglone@rmit.edu.au
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Nominal Hours: 50
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
In this course you will acquire the skills and knowledge neccesary 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 course will assist you when working in residential or community contexts.
This course is delivered and assessed in a cluster with:
This course is co-delivered and co-assessed with
- CHCCCS011 Meet personal support needs and
- CHCAGE005 Provide support to people living with dementia
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 strategies and opportunities that maximise engagement and promote healthy lifestyle practices 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.
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Overview of Assessment
This course is delivered and assessed with the courses CHCCCS011 Meet personal support needs and CHCAGE005 Provide support to people living with dementia.
The assessment tasks are as follows:
Assessment Task 1: Simulation: Fall recovery response
Assessment Task 2: Personal support needs – low care
Assessment Task 3: Personal support needs – high care
Assessment Task 4: Leisure and health activity
Assessment Task 5: Knowledge Quiz
Assessment Task 6: Transfer resident
Assessment Task 7: Scenario Quiz – Human rights
Assessment Task 8: Knowledge Quiz – Greendale Community
Assessment Task 9: Simulation: Identify goals and aspirations
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