Supporting Older People Living at HomeLaajuus (15 cr)

Objective

The Students:

• can explain the importance of home for an older person
• identify the importance of the environment for older people and find ways to promote environmental memory friendliness
• identify ways to support older people living at home and kinship care and informal care
• are able to assess the needs of services for home care clients and informal care families and to know the methods used to draw up a client plan;
• identify multiprofessional networks for informal and home care
• are able to justify the role of an older person and their loved ones in planning and implementation of services
• recognise the importance of communities in the well-being of an older person;
• are able to explain the role and importance of volunteering in supporting living at home

Content

• home and memory-friendly environment
• informal care and home care as an enabler of living at home for an older person
• objectives, quality, legislation and services of home care and informal care
• service needs assessment process and care and service plan
• communality, communal living solutions, family care
• basics of volunteering
• preventing falling
• CERAD
• internship (8 ECTS)
• assessing one's own skills and professional growth

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment criteria see the attachment of the curriculum
The course instructor will specify the criteria in the beginning of the course

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Assessment criteria see the attachment of the curriculum
The course instructor will specify the criteria in the beginning of the course

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Assessment criteria see the attachment of the curriculum
The course instructor will specify the criteria in the beginning of the course

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assessment criteria see the attachment of the curriculum
The course instructor will specify the criteria in the beginning of the course

Further information

• The internship of the module Supporting Valuable Life for Older People with Multi-Needs needs to be approved before the 3rd internship.