Study Guide

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

Materials

At the Moodle. To be announced later

Teaching methods

Interactive lecture
Distance learning and e-learning
Project
Work Placement
Invidual Feedback

Employer connections

Worklife related. 8ect practice after the project.

Exam schedules

It is not possible to increase the approved written essey.

International connections

It is possible to do the training in an international exchange

Completion alternatives

N/A

Student workload

Learning and projectwork 7 * 27 h = 189 H
Work Placement 8 etc: 6 weeks 7h/day (30 working day)

Content scheduling

3th ja 4th period

Further information

Lähiopetuksista poissaolot korvattava, erillinen ohje annetaan opintojakson alussa.

Mikäli opiskelijalla on erityisen tuen päätös, joka vaikuttaa opintojakson suorittamiseen, tulee opiskelijan olla opintojakson vastuuopettajaan yhteydessä heti opintojakson ilmoittautumisajan päätyttyä.

Lähiopetuksen aikataulussa muutokset mahdollisia.

Linkki Metropolian tietosuojaselosteeseen https://www.metropolia.fi/fi/metropoliasta/tietosuoja-ja-gdpr/tietosuojaselosteet/metropolian-opiskelija-ja-opintotietorekisteri

Evaluation scale

0-5

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

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment
Learning journal
Learning assignment
Attendance requirement
Employer feedback

Further information

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