Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the Course

    • Welcome

    • 1. Course Outline

    • 2. Welcome to Aged Care: Taster Video

    • 3. Quiz: Taster Video
  • 2

    Module 1 - Introduction to the Aged Care Industry

    • 1. Introduction: Understanding the aged care industry in Australia

    • 2. Key Vocab!

    • 3. Quiz - The Aged Care Industry in Australia

    • 4. Reading: Types of Aged Care: Residential Care, Nursing Homes, Home Care

    • 5. Key Vocab!

    • 6. Quiz- Types of aged care

    • 7. Reading: Trends in Aged Care

    • 8. Key Vocab!

    • 9. Quiz- Trends in Aged Care

    • 10. Listening: Aged Care and Covid

    • 11. Key Vocab!
  • 3

    Module 2 - Introduction to Aged Care Work

    • 1. Introduction

    • 2. Listening: Case Study - Myra

    • 3. Quiz - Myra

    • 4. Listening: Case Study - Diana and Ignatius

    • 5. Quiz - Diana and Ignatius

    • 6. Listening: Case Study - Uncle Bob

    • 7. Quiz - Uncle Bob
  • 4

    Module 3 - A Typical Day as a Home Carer

    • 1. Introduction: Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

    • 2. Reading: A day in the life of a home carer Part 1

    • 3. Key Vocab!

    • 4. Quiz - Part 1

    • 5. Grammar: Permission, Obligation and Ability

    • 6. Quiz - Permission Obligation and Ability

    • 7. Reading: A day in the life of a home carer Part 2

    • 8. Key Vocab!

    • 9. Quiz - Part 2

    • 10. Reading: A day in the life of a home carer Part 3

    • 11. Key Vocab!

    • 12. Quiz - Part 3

    • 13. Grammar: Possibility

    • 14. Vocab Review - Housework

    • 15. Vocab Review Answers - Housework
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    Module 4 - Healthcare, Wellbeing and Treatment: Knowing your Client’s Needs

    • 1. Introduction

    • 2. Reading: Common symptoms of aging, common needs, diseases and treatments

    • 3. Key Vocab!

    • 4. Quiz - Reading

    • 5. Listening: Your client's health needs (Greg and Judy)

    • 6. Key Vocab!

    • 7. Quiz - Greg and Judy

    • 8. Speaking: Making a summary

    • 9. Listening: Your client's health needs (Marjorie)

    • 10. Key Vocab!

    • 11. Quiz - Marjorie

    • 12. Speaking: Making a summary

    • 13. Grammar: Relative Clauses

    • 14. Quiz - Relative Clauses
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    Module 5 - Work Safety: Manual Handling, Industry Standards and Knowing your rights

    • 1. Introduction

    • 2. Reading: Manual Handling Basics

    • 3. Key Vocab!

    • 4. Quiz - Manual Handling

    • 5. Listening: Your rights as an aged care worker

    • 6. Quiz - Your Rights as an Aged Care Worker

    • 7. Reading: For Your Info!

    • 8. Key Vocab!

    • 9. Quiz - For your Info

    • 10. Listening and Speaking: Assertive language for talking about problems

    • 11. Reading: For your Info!

    • 12. Reading: The Certificate III in Individual Support
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    Module 6 - Difficult Communication and Responding to Challenging Behaviour

    • 1. Introduction

    • 2. Listening: Loneliness in Old Age

    • 3. Key Vocab!

    • 4. Quiz - Video

    • 5. Listening: Picking up on Mental Health Cues

    • 6. Language Skills: Understanding how Someone is Feeling

    • 7. Language skills: Helpful ways of Responding

    • 8. Listening: Working with Grief (Margaret Part 1)

    • 9. Listening: Working with Grief (Margaret Part 2)

    • 10. Language skills: Helpful ways of Responding

    • 11. Listening: Challenging Behaviour (Barbara Part 1)

    • 12. Listening: Challenging Behaviour (Barbara Part 2)

    • 13. Language Skills: Responding to Challenging Behaviour

    • 14. Listening and Speaking: What would you do next? (Part 1)

    • 15. Listening and Speaking: What would you do next? (Part 2)
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    Module 7: Writing Case Notes and Incident Reports

    • 1. Introduction

    • 2. Reading: Key Elements to Case Note Writing

    • 3. Reading: Case Notes for your shift with Ken

    • 4. Language Skills: Case Note Corrections

    • 5. Writing: Write your Own!

    • 6. Check your Writing

    • 7. Reading: Key Elements to Incident Report Writing

    • 8. Key Vocab!

    • 9. Reading: Incident Report for your shift with Heather

    • 10. Language Skills: Incident Report Corrections

    • 11. Writing: Write your Own!

    • 12. Check your Writing

    • 13. Grammar: Past Tenses Used for Case Notes and Incident Reports

    • 14. Quiz - Narrative Tenses
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