- Location: Gorey Community School Esmonde Street Gorey Wexford Ireland
- Duration: 12 Weeks
Course details
This course is suitable for people who are caring for older people either at home, in the community, or in a healthcare support setting. It will help you to meet the full range of needs of older people.
- Age related issues to include healthy ageing, global and national demographic trends, the normal physiological and psychological
- processes of ageing, the social impact of ageing on older people and differing attitudes to ageing and older people
- Roles of the health care assistant in promoting positive attitudes to ageing and of statutory and voluntary agencies in promoting the
- well being of older people
- Concepts and practices to include preparation for retirement and the ethnic and cultural influences on the older person
- Older people's needs to include physical, social, emotional, psychological, recreational, financial, environmental and spiritual
- needs
- Role of the health care assistant in providing care for older people
About Gorey Adult Learning Centre
Adult education provides an opportunity for people to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills and, through improved co-operation and communication, to create a better community, society and environment in which we live.The Adult Education Department at We_They is a vibrant unit with accredited up-to-date courses, modern technology and professional teaching staff. We offer evening classes and courses which are constantly monitored to ensure they are relevant and contemporary, and the curriculum is tailored to the needs of the students. Underpinning that commitment, we strive to meet new opportunities which students wish to explore - if the course you require is not listed
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