Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2020
Course Code: HWSS6078C
Course Title: Facilitate the empowerment of older people
Important Information:
This course is co-delivered and co-assessed with CHCIDS007 Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability, CHCCS0015 Provide individualised support and, CHCCCS023 Support independence and wellbeing. This cluster is called, Individualised focus.
School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context
Campus: City Campus
Program: C3402 - Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability)
Course Contact: Steve Bruechert
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4063
Course Contact Email: steve.bruechert@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
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:
CHCIDS007 - Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability
CHCCS0015 - Provide individualised support
CHCCCS023 - Support independence and wellbeing
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: |
ELEMENT |
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements define the essential outcomes |
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Develop relationships with older people |
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
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2. Provide services to older people |
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
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3. Support the rights of older people |
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
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4. Promote health and re-ablement of older people |
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
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Element: |
2. Provide services to older people |
Performance Criteria: |
ELEMENT |
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements define the essential outcomes |
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Develop relationships with older people |
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
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2. Provide services to older people |
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
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3. Support the rights of older people |
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
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4. Promote health and re-ablement of older people |
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
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Element: |
3. Support the rights of older people |
Performance Criteria: |
ELEMENT |
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements define the essential outcomes |
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Develop relationships with older people |
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
|
|
|
2. Provide services to older people |
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
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|
|
3. Support the rights of older people |
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
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|
|
4. Promote health and re-ablement of older people |
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
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Element: |
4. Promote health and re-ablement of older people |
Performance Criteria: |
ELEMENT |
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements define the essential outcomes |
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Develop relationships with older people |
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
|
|
|
2. Provide services to older people |
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
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|
|
3. Support the rights of older people |
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
|
|
|
4. Promote health and re-ablement of older people |
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
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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
The program schedule includes
- Online self-paced learning resources
- Face-to-face classroom-based learning including virtual and augmented reality
- Workplace based learning and assessment
Teaching Schedule
While all course content in this sechdule wil be covered, the weely order may change depending on class needs and availability of speakers and resources
Week 1
Topics:• Wellbeing• Healthy lifestyles• Social, cultural and spiritual differences to health and wellbeing – community attitudes• Personal values regarding health and wellbeing
Week 2
Workplace practice – Supporting people with health and wellbeing activities
Week 3
Topics: • Understanding the human body• Overview of body systems and functions• Body regulation
Week 4
topics: • Impact of exercise• Physical, social and financial factors that impact wellbeing• Individual needs• Roles and rights of people in relation to health and wellbeing – including role of families
Week 5
Topics: • Ways to encourage people to participate in health and wellbeing activities• Acknowledging and supporting strengths• Support strategies and resources relating to health and wellbeing• Equipment to support people to participate in activities
Week 6
Topic s:• Monitoring own work• Providing input to promote change in the workplace
week 7
Topics: • Identifying and responding to changing needs of others• Identifying and responding to risks• Documentation
Week 8
Topics: • Mental health• Physical health• Protection from infection• Nutrition and hydration• Reporting variations
Week 9
Topics: • Self-care strategies• Managing stress and fatigue
Week 10
opics: • Class debriefing and catch-up
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
This course is delivered and assessed with the courses CHCIDS007 Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability, CHCCS0015 Provide individualised support and, CHCCCS023 Support independence and wellbeing.
There will be three forms of assessment, they include a case study with questions, theory questions and an assessment task linked to your placement component.
The assessment tasks are as follows:
Task 1: Case Study/questions
Task 2: Theory Questions and Answers
Task 2: Observation and demonstration of client communication skills on placement
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.
A student charter http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/studentcharter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online:http://www1.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=c15i3ciaq8ca
Assessment Tasks
Students enrolled in Vocational Education and Training qualifications are assessed for Competency. To be assessed as Competent means you have consistently demonstrated the required knowledge and skills to a standard expected in the workplace. To be assessed as Competent in this course, you will need to complete each assessment task to a satisfactory standard. You will receive feedback from the teacher at the conclusion of each assessment task.
You should refer to the assessment brief which is available through Canvas for a full assessment criterion.
Results that apply to courses that are delivered and assessed in accordance with competency-based assessments are:
CA - Competency Achieved
NYC - Not Yet Competent
DNS - Did not submit for assessment
Assessment Matrix
The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant unit of competency. These matrices are available through program administration
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