Planning Balanced Meals
Healthy eating over the lifespan helps us to feel good, manage weight, and prevent chronic disease. Even in later years, eating well supports a healthy immune system and provides energy for daily activities.
Patient Bill of Rights
This lesson provides an update on healthcare consumers' rights and how the Bill of Rights varies in different healthcare settings.
Nutrition for the Elderly
This course covers the age-related changes that can impact nutrition and explains the Modified Food Pyramid for Older Adults.
Pain and the Elderly
This course discusses how pain affects the elderly, including common causes and types of pain.
Infection Control in Home Care
This course provides caregivers with a review of some of the common infection control challenges faced by home health aides.
Maintaining Confidentiality
This course reviews everything they need to know about maintaining your clients’ confidentiality.
Helping Prevent Client Elopement
The course covers methods of preventing elopement and types of technology used to prevent elopement.
Helping with Activities of Daily Living
Provides an overview of bathing, oral hygiene, toileting, dressing, grooming, eating and transferring.
Housekeeping Basics
This course spells it out and includes information about cleaning supplies, tips for efficient and effective cleaning, doing laundry, and stopping the spread of infection.
Food Preparation & Safety
This course provides an overview of kitchen hazards, food-borne illnesses, cooking terms, and the steps caregivers can take to ensure the safe handling of food.
Emotional Losses in the Elderly
This inservice provides caregivers with an overview of the many emotional losses facing people as they age, including loss of health, loss of productivity, loss of loved ones, loss of home, and mobility loss.
Communicating with Individuals Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia
This course provides important information about the communication needs of clients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other dementias.
