Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: VE 2020

Class Number: 3574

Class Section: BEN0

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Course Code: HWSS6078C

Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people

Important Information:

This course is delivered and assessed in a cluster with;

• CHCCS023 - Support independence and wellbeing •CHCMHS001 - Work with people with mental health issues •CHCCCS015 - Provide individualised support

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: City Campus

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

Course Contact: Gwen Cawsey

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4581

Course Contact Email: Gwen.cawsey@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. Note: All learning activities are delivered via remote learning in Semester 2, 2020. 


Teaching Schedule

Session 1  

  • Introduction to this cluster of four units 

  • overview/trends of aged care 

  • Accessing aged care services 

  • home care programs 

Session 2 

  • Short/Long term help at home 

  • Residential Care 

  • Roles and Responsibilities 

  • 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 

Session 3 

  • Funding 

  • Mental Health 

  • Stigma around mental health services 

  • Introduction to the unit 

  • Physical/Psychological Needs 

  • Spiritual/Cultural/Sexual Needs 

Session 4 

  • Support 

  • Agencies and professionals 

  • Considerations when making referrals 

  • Identity-expression of personal identity 

  • Sexual expression - barriers and support needs in the elderly 

  • LGBTI residents - discuss individual differences socially and culturally 

  • spiritual differences 

Session 5 

  • apply a strengths-based approach 

  • apply consumer-directed care 

  • Intro to unit with role of the PCA 

  • Legal/ethical requirements 

  • Mental health Law and Human Rights that residents have 

  • Complaints ad Elder Abuse 

Session 6 

  • apply a palliative approach 

  • apply knowledge of empowerment and disempowerment 

  • apply a rights-based approach 

  • Factors affecting Health and wellbeing such as mental health - depression and anxiety with the risk factors involved 

  • Healthy Lifestyle Strategies- safe environments, OH&S, and identifying hazards 

Session 7 

  • apply knowledge of self-actualisation 

  • apply recovery-oriented mental health practice 

  • apply knowledge of social justice and inclusion 

  • Human lifespan and the process of ageing 

Session 8 

  • Identifying aspects of individualised plans to review and how to involve the residents in this 

  • Documentation required 

  • Developing skills  

  • What  support activites are - support and aims of individualised activities 

  • Communication activities 

  • Risks and Crisis 

 


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 This assessment task allows you to demonstrate your knowledge required to: Organise, provide and monitor support services within the limits established by an individualised plan 

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 

 

Assessment task 2 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to organise, provide and monitor support services within the limits established by an individualised plan. 

 

Assessment task 3 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to provide individualised services in ways that support independence, as well as, physical and emotional wellbeing. 

 

Assessment task 4 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to assist 3 aged care residents to carry out a desired activity that meets their goals and aspirations, as identified in their individualised care plan. 

 

Assessment task 5 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues. 

 

Assessment task 6 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to establish relationships, clarify needs, and then work collaboratively with people who are living with mental health issues. 

 

Assessment task 7 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to assess capacity to support people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues and to work collaboratively to provide support and facilitate links to other services. 

 

Assessment task 8 This practical assessment will allow you to demonstrate that you have provided 120 hours of direct support work in line with the principles of independence and wellbeing in their aged care facility. You will have to provide documentary evidence of the completed hours. 


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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