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This course features high quality imagery, engaging animations, interactive activities and information that focusses on how learners can identify, report and respond to the abuse of older people who are in a care relationship.
This course is suitable for caregivers and other healthcare professionals who provide care to older people in Australian home and community aged care environments. This course is designed to form a part of a healthcare organisation’s duty of care and elder abuse training.
Legislation changes have updated the reporting requirements for all workers in Australian home and community aged care environments.This course covers these requirements, meeting the new legislative need and helping provide person-centred care to all consumers.
Education on elder abuse and SIRS helps staff understand their obligations for each work context and ultimately supports consumers to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. Contextualised learning is ideal because it provides information relevant to the learner’s work environment, helps learners develop skills and knowledge they need to do their job well in residential and in-home aged care, enhances learner engagement through examples and scenarios they can relate to and helps learners comprehend, apply and retain knowledge and skills pertinent to their work place.
Elder abuse undermines the dignity and autonomy of aged care consumers. Abuse and living in fear can inhibit consumer’s ability to make choices about their own lives, to pursue what they value and to live a life that is meaningful to them. Consumers should be able to live in an environment where they are free of exploitation and physical or mental abuse and treated fairly regardless of their age, gender, racial or ethnic background, disability or other status and be valued as unique individuals with their own wishes, needs and preferences.
This course provides an understanding of:
• the background, definitions and prevalence of abuse of older
people in Australia
• common types of abuse experienced by older people
• requirements for reporting abuse and serious incidents in home and community aged care environments
• barriers that can prevent staff from reporting, and
• actions to take in the event of abuse or serious incidents.
